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  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  world. You would think that access to millions of dollars of lab space and ... 's microfabrication facility and I was eager to jump back into the exciting world of ... whether I want to commit the next few years of my life to becoming a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  . This Tuesday, the Class of 2019 got together to celebrate the time we've spent together so far, and to toast the next two years of our MIT journey ... of MIT's 150th anniversary of moving to Boston (top of the ring); and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... of 8:00 to get ready for the train. A shuttle + subway ride later, I ... -dollar bills and half dollars, then set out to explore some of the town. Not a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... forced to recreate all the movies in the store, or "swede" them. "Sweding ... wearing photocopied masks of their faces so as not to invert their skin

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  today, of all days, i feel it's appropriate to begin with a land ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  masses yearning to learn. In support of his subversive educational ... million dollars to found Minerva. The latter comes from the long list of ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  campus. Having never been exposed to research of any kind before, I wanted ... deciding that I was going to take the leap, look into some of the awesome ... interwoven into the very fabric of MIT’s culture. According to the 2014 MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  , which gives grants of up to 10K for projects that foster community, for ... perspective as a member of this committee, and decided to apply. I'm really ... sort as a high schooler, it's kind of crazy to be fiercely passionate

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... to 3 Class of 2023 events. One was a tunnel hunt and it was a ton of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Additional Questions & Answers Regarding Music At MIT If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing so in college,…

  our website. Instrumentalists are generally asked to perform any short ... Arts] If you've pursued music in high school and wish to continue doing ... of opportunities at MIT. MyMIT bloggers have written about many student

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  talking about what to blog about.) Also, nobody likes the suspense of big ... 't deprive them of the pleasure of getting to hang out with you.) 4. Campaign ... . Anyone know an eight-letter word having to do with the location of M

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  respective organizations to levels I had only dreamed of while in High School ... , at any of the research institutions I'd been accepted to I asked a lot ... products. I realized that I was genuinely afraid of returning to the NRAO: if

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... it is. I found myself scrambling to take extra STEM classes or force a ... skills--I was just too far behind. She then proceeded to think of some

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

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  students will be equipped to handle upper level classes. But instead of ... .670 course website): The first day of class was like Christmas and Hanukah and ... materials to make our engine out of, and a really nice drawing set. As you can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic ... appling for financial aid) As you may have read on our website, we plan to ... budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  shifts kind of long) days, we were able to confidently pass the tests with ... ) and a lot of tires consumed, we decided to stop for the day and problem ... 2 of FSGP, we had racked up enough laps to qualify for ASC and despite

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  myself. I had grown up in a family of people who loved to eat. Whenever I ... to learn how to cook. Most of my time was spent on school ... . I’m just starting to realize that, after the halcyon days of childhood

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film theory classes because I was forced to consider what I was going to make of ... be in charge of what you want to do. And that on the flip side of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  to be fun time at MIT. I wrote a large chunk of this entry back at the beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... I want to focus on my last Friday at work because it was one of the

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... attention to the memes people make of him, so I encourage you to go out and be ... before inserting a witty comment. He paid attention to what kinds of words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014