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  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... . Without a doubt, 6.2600 is the most magical and exciting class I’ve taken at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ? I suck at actual art. You know, the kind with shading, swoopy stuff ... work hard enough at it. I love crafts and making things. See MIT Mech ... a pretty serious South Park bender at the time and the art in South

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  'm currently doing a 30-day photo challenge where I take at least one good photo

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually ... interviewees back at the site to wait. This was actually really cool because we ... . Nothing I’ve done at MIT has been done alone, and I’m unbelievably grateful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  didn't go well at all. On Thursday night, after my last exam was over, I ... double back, at around 4pm on Friday, and make the trek to the third floor ... -by by bursting into song; Davie said that he used to do the same. At 4

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any ... wine tasting class, worked out at the gym, and saw several movies. My ... about their graduate students than the undergrads. At MIT, I would

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Stata Center has three towers. Some of the windows look out at other walls of the Stata Center. Others look out at a desert under unfamiliar stars ... , but you know they are your friends. You buy potato chips at Verde’s and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  At the start of each semester, I typically join Facebook Messenger ... , I like the name "Interstellar" a lot. So many of the things we use at ... ? Harvard and MIT students can cross-register for classes at the other school

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Adventures of Flat Tim And his admissions officer friend!

  

  Before I started working at MIT, I had never driven on the ... . ----- After 5+ years at MIT Admissions, I’ve accumulated quite a lot of mileage ... you are able to meet an MIT admissions officer at your high school, in

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • June 6, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  lurker at heart and have loved keeping up with the other bloggers' summers ... worries in a tangled cloud around me. I'm trying to sort through them one at ... conversations at all). Early adulthood feels like purgatory. It's so easy to hide

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  noticed three of my fellow passengers staring somewhat obviously at my shirt ... of the shirt looks something like this: Right. I'm not at MIT right ... 1916: at the time, MIT didn't even own the land west of Mass Ave, and

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can ... a new movie every two years at best. 18.02 psets come out every week ... more net benefit in the long run. At least in this case, the adventure

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  hanging from a window and half a dozen people leaning out and waving at us ... at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT ... back on the good times we had at MIT. Photo Credit: Ricardo Ramirez

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  seems unlikely, because why not shoot for the stars? However, at MIT, we ... they interact with are feeling, and are experts at adapting themselves to ... well-balanced sign of the zodiac. They're great at thinking through

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  MIT was to find Good People(TM). I didn't really know what that meant at ... at the top of this summit is breathtaking and I'm taking a moment to breathe, recover, and rest. As I catch up with friends and hang out at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat ... lapping the edge of the ice, and two of the nutria nibble at grass and one ... cigarette butts at my feet. One dog, little and orange, who chases the rats

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  wrong: you still can’t do minute math properly but you are good at math ... it’s true. I’m a bit amused at the prospect of you being angry at me ... , at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too… one day you will

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  . I sat down in our room for a couple minutes, staring at his empty bed ... only. We also didn’t serve ourselves. Instead, we pointed at what we ... was expecting to be able to stay in that room for at least the school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  feminist rant at you, I'll give you a “well, sort of,” because calling out ... single simple condition. In a now-famous study, psychologists at the ... participants arrived at the laboratory,” states the paper, “the experimenter (a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015