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  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  and the sides of the heart. Happily this worked on the first try! Now ... dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... when you make the end of a bar thin and pointy. rivets are like double

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  name of the machine shop on the first floor of the Media Lab, a place ... meetings after that first one. He had worked with Loren S. ‘17 in the past ... story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but ... 'm about to dive head-first into the craziness that is medical school

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... spill from my fingertips: dropping a class for the first time, changing my ... more multitudes. The truth is, however, that most of this semester has

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thoughts. Future. Kindness

  

  claps of thunder. I looked up at the sky and it was greyer than usual and ... to help”. I called Milton, the head of the volunteer department and he ... at the lobby, directing the traffic flow and helped bring families of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • April 20, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  One of MIT's oldest student groups is the Assassins Guild. We're the ... for space police, and a Wookiee stuck in a tavern in the middle of a desert storm. And one of the Guild's oldest traditions is the ten-day game

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  the concept of students completing elaborate “paint by number ... , I can not argue with the logic of trying to discover the formula for ... formulas.  When you combine the idea of creating an image based upon numbers

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the ... world. Many of us read at home 5-6 days of the week throughout November ... .  Actual footage of the inside of my brain during reading season Then, we

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• 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.

  

  year, I saw the graduation ceremony as more of a check-point than a ... is class of '08) couldn't come see me graduate in person. I did the ... using a strip of cloth and a couple of alligator clips. I used the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... out of the dryer six days ago anyone else permanently going through a ... does anyone else remember when the internet looked like this? sorry

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  , has sung onstage with one of MIT’s student acapella groups called the ... was everything you’d expect the President of MIT’s office to be – dark wood panels lined the walls, a grand desk stood proudly in front of a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  clever title for my daily activities and was reminded of the musical ... the old city with musicians, artists, and sellers of trinkets galore. It’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Unofficial Guide to Unstandard MITglish, 1st Edition The joy of jargon.

  

  , localized dialect like a wandering hitchhiker on the sideroads of esoteric ... speakers of MITglish enunciate consonants at the end of words with ... conversation. A perceptive friend of mine from Tufts University made the mistake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  did in the first week of my freshman fall. I’ve dropped all but one of ... . My circuit design was only failing one of the online tests, which meant ... sort of caffeine from the convenience store across the street from the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  fever. He was the first Class of 1892 graduate to pass away, and ... Engineering Society (with N.T. Paraschos) For the first half of his MIT career ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  when the post-finals laze took over, I devoted most of my time to local ... MIT has the best possible college location. On one side of campus ... . This post is Part 1.0 of my favorite ways to burst the MIT bubble

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  [/caption] Thorax I first took off the small carapace covering the top of the thorax ... ’s got instincts akin to that of an experienced hunter. Harley is also the ... discretion.[/caption] Now the rest of this post will contain detailed

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In ... Boston's Museum of Science, which has a great view of the city skyline

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of ... that seemed perfect at the age of 18, that I actually feel as though my ... This post is written by the beautiful and talented Christina '10

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006