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  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last, though this isn't the first time this year - we've had nice days on and off ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... last couple of years -- our favorite one required scanning a barcode on a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  this website." After checking out the links, I was pretty sold on Xing ... an idea of how behind on email I am right now). He wrote, "The male ... him you can click on this link. "The female character in the picture is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW ... events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to ... some thoughts on making this an enjoyable weekend. The first question I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  ://web.mit.edu/misti/mit-spain/ (which just a few months ago was a much uglier website, nice job on the ... , accomodations, visas, whatever. Sometimes you're left on your own, but you can ... MISTI gave me a list of websites to search for people looking for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and ... looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  their own website based on the year’s theme (this year’s was “Branching ... teams can win up to $5,000! I spent a lot of IAP working on my website ... lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  I've always been pretty picky about managing my tabs on my laptop ... browser is that, when I'm done looking at websites, I just close the whole ... precious life?" poem "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver - not sure why this is on

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  the ISO website. The same presentation also gives recommendations on ... your interview. If not, please get on that as soon as possible.  Keep ... on you when you travel. You will need them. And of course, your

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  found my phone number on a listing at some job website. They're informing ... Most of my work has been low stakes. When I work on programming ... vision for where it's supposed to go. No one does code review on my commits

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for ... community of friends behind. I plan on going back to Panama this year. We are ... to the Admissions website, and were going to feature staff and student

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduling woes advice for dealing with overenrolled/conflicting classes

  

  endeavor. Aside from making sure that I’m on track to graduating on time ... ’ll reopen my firehose/Courseroad/[annotation note="website that shows which ... you're graduating on time"]course audit[/annotation]/emotional support

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 15, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  saves a lot of time spent on the registration website or that problem set ... should I begin on the airplane?  [annotation note="Spoiler Alert: It's three stops on the Red Line to Porter Station"]Where is the nearest yarn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous ... rules, but most of the focus was on creating your own work and critiquing others' work. This class is always over-enrolled on the first day. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  . I ultimately settled on SCRB 192: Principles of Drug Design and ... on the way there to better face the doldrums that are mid ... from powerpoints, and students take notes on printed slides. In

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘How to College’ Masterpost A comprehensive guide for frosh, from all corners of the interwebz.

  

  course, our very own Admissions blogs and MIT websites. This took a ... , etc. I feel that it’s important to have knowledge on how to be safe in ... all content which focused on safety and other such information, but

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  year and wear the beaver "sitting" on them until graduation. At Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world ... Ring. They couldn't decide whether to put the beaver or the Dome on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  last year, so decisions came out at something like 9:30 AM on a Saturday ... waiting for wifi access (especially on a retreat day where I was supposed to be focusing on my relationship with God), so my I gave my brother my My

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  your rank list because if you do not match with any school on December 2 ... you are a QB applicant, along with full name and date of birth on the ... , some will accept late interviews on a case-by-case basis. Completing an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  it’s just a lot of exciting things going on!!! First up, my work this ... collection of biological components.” Taken from iGEM website (URL: http://igem.org/About ) More specifically, I work on the tissue culture (TC)/ transfection part

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012