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  Be a Blogger 2022!

  

  exuberance to post at least twice a month on average. We may ask you to help ... students or students at other colleges). This application is open to all MIT ... and alert bloggers before orientation if at all possible. If this sounds

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  approved by the hall (or at least not objected to), your door is your own to ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was ... ... I did at least start it! I walked to Central Square and bought the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I ... yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  really wanted to major in. Too many cool things at this school... how could ... was super excited to take 2.007, which is one of the robotics classes at ... before I even declared Course 2. I was kind of downright horrible at

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... 's cookies at the state fair. Studying at Caribou after school. Crying in my ... who had gone through changes—while I was at college, my mother had

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tech is Hell we are happy, tech is hell

  

  . At the very end of his long effort measured by skyless space and time ... , that is the hour of consciousness. At each of those moments when he ... no higher destiny, or at least there is, but one which he concludes is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Public MIT panel on the science behind vaccines, and ending the evolving pandemic

  

  here on Thursday, April 8th, at 4PM; a recording will be made available shortly thereafter at the same link. Because I know a lot of our readers are ... admissions blogger Bryan B. '07, now a professor at MIT. You should read a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  Me, to be delivered at the start of the fall semester. That reminded me of ... very bold assumptions"]FutureMe[/annotation] before--looking at my inbox ... your aps and stuff, but at least you didn't have to do fencing or

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  ="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and ... are at least five other versions that got scrapped in discovery ... ’s, because—back when we worked on campus—he sat at the desk behind me and could

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  At the beginning of this semester, we were really unsure of what ... entire time at MIT essentially. We would have probably taken 6.839 Advanced ... for [annotation note="We really recommend looking at ShaderToy and The

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  calls) getting to know staff members who work at MIT in different roles ... crowd. At MIT, the First Gen Program is a tight community, and it always ... Friday at CP*, we’ll be hosting a First-Gen/Low Income Experience Panel

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  day. things are so crazy here at mit right now. i guess i’m lucky that i have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a ... . i’m just really bad at this sort of thing, so maybe read what other

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  some background on recent happenings at MIT, so please bear with me: An ... hollow blue pipes, pointing at the Charles so that you could see the other ... 't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively. In the ... expect you to blog at least once every two weeks and create other kinds of ... or students at other colleges). If this sounds like something you might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... Spain (at least not technically). It's got its own national government, in ... inheriting the position. Except at some point the French house of Foix merged

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  helping us to better understand your experience at MIT---and more important ... enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... at $50 each) to randomly-drawn winners. Note: This voluntary survey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  , horizontal, or at 45 degrees. The toolbar at the top will let you choose the ... select them, so use the Selection Tool (black cursor at the top of the left ... ("stroke color"), double click the large black square at the bottom of the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen ... who may feel the same way! At MIT, each semester begins with ... surprised at how routine it seemed this semester, and at how fast my class

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  student at MIT is like. You should interpret this mandate expansively.   ... expect you to blog at least once every two weeks and create other kinds of ... students or students at other colleges). Your application will be read by a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... what changed this semester though. At MIT, combined with cross ... Animation (taken at MassArt) Allan: 6.009 Fundamentals of Programming 6

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018