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• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every ... down with a friend and catch up to be able to do a pset. I need to blow ... again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  bread basket was a tour-de-force of texture and warmth, seamlessly ... aside: The previous sentence sounds like it was written by a cattle ... prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  semester with only a few weeks left to find something to do before the summer ... MIT students, and probably college students in general. Many do ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  grip and switch a lever back and forth. It’s attached to a beam I’ll call “The Arm”, and a base I’ll call… well I don’t really have a name for that ... two rubber bands to create a one-way door to catch hold onto the levers

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The ... In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... consider giving us a piece of your salary? OK, so it's not really like that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  spring break in San Juan journeying to none other than the most popular MIT spreak destination

  

  La Placita de Santurce, a nightlife hotspot with dozens of bars and ... :') I went to [annotation note="there's a lot to be said here about PR's status as one of the oldest colonies, definitely more than could fit in a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  ="SuperUROP is a program where you do research as an undergraduate for a whole year ... 'm excited, because we're doing a lot of data collection—i.e., reading lots of legal documents—but I'm also nervous, because—wait for it—we're doing a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner -  a great ... special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of ... , we had a greeter at the door to welcome them to our hall. Most of us

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  go on a mission. It's something I always assumed I would do. And since ... a bonus related article. Enjoy! Fannin finds more than academics at ... .By Lorrie Cecil/ThisWeek The movie "21," which is based on a true story

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  ). Apparently this task was on our team’s to-do list for a while, but no one ever ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  all the shenanigans they involve deserve a longer post than I can do ... Every day at school feels like a delicate balancing act that is ... Everything. This is just me being a hopeless perfectionist. MIT has forced me

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Is Here! Welcome to MIT.

  

  your way to campus, I thought I’d share a few words on my experience at ... I got out at Logan airport, and I immediately entered a state of utter ... airport, so I scurried around and looked for MIT folk for a solid twenty

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  ’m introduced to Curran O. '13, now a grad student at Yale. He’s competing at the ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Gettin’ Fancy Two formal events in two days?

  

  in this example with Alex O. ’16 and Rachel R. ’16., or adopt a scowl ... school year, two events occurred last Thursday and Friday that required a ... Poses and Pictures of Hands A data summary-esque analysis by Ceri

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... slightly over a normal load"]less classes[/annotation] and doing more ... a to-do list [annotation note="ideally, this would be the previous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  Jerusalem, I rode a train across the country, I tried doing humanities ... rigorous is less fun. But doing this for only five to eight hours a week is ... and for all. For the last several summers, I’ve floundered in a soup of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  skillset to do it. I want to make X project but it requires A, B, and C ... trying to do a lot recently since I've spent...a lot of time crying over ... As a quick sidenote, I want to say my heart goes out to everyone

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on ... live in East Campus. Who knows, maybe you will even get to pet a cat :O ... with a prefrosh that fit their profile, and everyone was super excited on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  wrote a “FREE” sign, because there was nothing I could do, and it was on ... , and I got to do it under my mentor, Jay Scheib. It was a really cool ... exhibitions, and do a lot of cool reading, and visit a lot of different

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017