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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a MechE capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for being intense, silly, and a lot of fun. This blog is my story of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post ... me, and that you enjoy the read. ---------------------- It was a rare ... Center holding my name badge and a newly earned certificate and dragged my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work ... to give advice and out of frustration with prefrosh who posted a bunch

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later ... initially MASSIVE and incredibly high-resolution for a single image. Maybe it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  I've been reading popular science for a long time. It's why I ... Quammen and Richard Preston, who aren't scientists by training but have a ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  , one complaint in the comments on those entries was about a lack of data ... 'm a huge fan of statistics. I read 538 and Football Outsiders every day. When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  to deny just how much of a curmudgeon I have become. I’m pretty sure that it is not simply a function of age, but rather a fundamental ... application process can be very competitive, it is not inherently a competition

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  as a ghost who didn't know he was a ghost, an undercover robot working for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a ... , which is exactly what it sounds: a ten-day long larp. These happen in IAP

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  Nowhere, New Mexico - out on a Navajo Reservation. Did I mention that I ... America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who ... posters. it’s also right next to the lounge, which is a plus. it’s an ... an [annotation note='I have talked about ESP lots of times; we are a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  , a bubble tea shop on the outskirts of campus. The recruiters had tried ... boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  warp and stitch them together). The class is super cool! I made a panorama of my door, also attached.   YQ L. ‘15 As you might know, I do a lot of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  a package slip in my mailbox earlier this week; I passed it to the desk worker, who put a big squishy brown envelope in my hands. I read the ... . Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  -shi≈ãFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2 : extraordinarily impressive or effective; a smashing performance     ... here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I feel that it's still a slogan that sounds cute, but it's also meaningful

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT ... Court... (4) ...or take a walk by the boathouse: (5) I'd show you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  Charlotte Blonsky a patent: In case reading the crumbly Times New Roman is a struggle: their patent was for an "Apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force." You are familiar with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... realized that though I don’t think I’ve felt rooted to a place before, Boston

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the initiation of a two-year renovation plan, but house team was still emailing us ... , and i've unfortunately since [annotation note="this is a tangent, but i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology ... program (where I wouldn't have to take the MCAT and would be guaranteed a ... have to take the I-never-want-to-ever-take-this-again exam a.k.a. the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012