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

  

  you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness ... a dozen According to the MIT website: “Seventy-one present and former ... talk by Carl Wieman (Physics, 2001). Also, thanks to the UROP program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  class website or announce in class, they'll eventually get to know you. If ... colleges. Otherwise, you can just get a letter written by your school ... air, as freshmen were trampled by upperclassmen rioting to reset the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  AeroAstro. I figured I was fascinated enough by planes and rockets to get ... gets distracted by airplanes flying overhead, and gave Professor Darmofal an opening to introduce the Jim Mar Test. Used by Mar to evaluate

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  website for Course 6 academic programs (not just limited to MEng): http://www.eecs.mit.edu/ug/index ... Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... methods (of communication theory or control theory, for example) to aid in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  my brothers were trained as engineers; I, by contrast, come to this ... ambition. I began by Googling homemade power racks and quickly discerned that ... what I imagine it must be like to have your friends organize a barn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  through to associate ourselves by department number (visualized below). I ... suggested by their major or by the choices they made. Major choice seems to ... So you don't know what to major in. You have no idea what to do with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  following 1 month January term as a way to get your calc requirement out of ... of people crowd the halls to get photos of it...including me ... Afterward, I had 3 hours to clean my room, pack 2 weeks of clothes, and get

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  could get the argument out of the way in advance. I googled for various ... answer to many more things in life than I would have expected: in your ... some slack (and if you send a polite and apologetic email to your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  going to be ducks, and the poster was to get people in the MIT community ... classes, they have to get approved, any materials have to be acquired ... by, you talk to them even more about teaching, because you know them so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  impressed by my response to my upbringing and family situation. Like, about to ... . “You can get a fee waiver once you give us a copy of your parent’s 1040 ... , that you’re applying to M.I.T. and yet you can’t fill out a form…” I don

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  . We chose this major by thinking endlessly about what we want to do with ... in. We initially chose 21E to get a taste of both CMS and 6 to try to ... dedicate all our efforts into trying to get a storyboarding job, or another

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  applying to MIT. It’s so easy to become overwhelmed by hearing about the ever ... essays, applied, was accepted by a few, and went to one. No bells, no ... me to have "a list of no more than 12 schools" ranked by difficulty to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  cultural fit to find your best space. PRICING: MIT has three tiers of dorm ... dorm with a dining hall will add a significant additional charge to your ...  don't worry about your cooking skills. If you want to learn, there’ll be plenty

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  people who seem to have your best interests at heart really do not, and I ... friend told me they were being treated in x way, I would tell them to get ... textbooks. Sigh. 7. It is important to take care of your body and physical

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself ... . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  willing to get mauled in pursuit of our interests, she by vicious animals ... people from your high school know about MIT? What made you decide to come ... suburb outside of Madison, WI, and I was actually the first person to get

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Donalds, they were relegated to Hollywood cinema for me. We washed our clothes by ... navigating a color-coded maze, using photo-sensors. I would later get to ... getting to go indoor skydiving with the frat brothers. A dozen freshmen and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  Friends that sang "If you're voting and you know it, clap your hands" to the tune of "If you're happy and you know it" after a full day of talking to ... 's doing a PhD in oceanography to pursue policy and science together by

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018