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• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  . This city was where I learned how to advocate for myself and form a ... "]probably won't get a degree[/annotation] out of it. But I know I'll try to do ... looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  cars actually latch on to the cables and get pulled along for the ride ... , but really I'm laughing because I can't figure out how to get up without ... to document on my blog, is the sheer nerdiness of most everyday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  either at my school or the local library that I could get to on foot in 10 ... heading to MIT one hour and then think that I wasn't getting into my ... pattern in those posts nor any clues as to whether you will get accepted

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guitar Hero… on the oscilloscope! The secret fifth digital instrument revealed

  

  -Y mode allows you to visualize how “out of phase” (i.e., out of sync) two ... .2060 is that we get to build the circuits and code that power these ... allows you to work with analog and digital signals on the same

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  could get used to the water temperature before going out further and ... assignments, have to keep moving and doing things. Relax for a day, and you’re ... campus is that I get a lot of time to think for myself. So I have these

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  in a team with an MIT alum as a mentor to work on our teamwork skills ... .  We chose to present on the issue of dorm security here at MIT, and ... to try it again! So next time you're at a barbeque and there

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  alarms of any dorm on the MIT campus. Because just because you go to MIT ... two weeks without hearing exactly how to prevent a catastrophe: "Close ... needs to evacuate. If something's on fire, cover it or throw it out the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  begin on experiments with the level of detail you’re expected to for this ... [/caption] How are we going to find an object that we can get to near light speeds ... background events in your detector, leading to a lot of trial and error on our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  class focused on the type of controls where you look at how far off your ... to know what they're actually about"]6.UAT[/annotation] How to Talk Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  plan to admit students from the wait list. How many we admit is a ... list is used to manage the uncertainty of knowing how many students will ... to 17 out of the 408 students on our wait list. At this point, our wait

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... ). These comics don't have any special meaning to me, but head on over and ... will stop . . . the world," a reference to Dr. Horrible (look him up on

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where ... describing a current project on the bubonic plague, Prof. McCormick referred to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The MySpace Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part two.

  

  . How old are you? 32 003. What is the link to your website, blog, or ... 013. Do you get along with your parents? yes 014. Your heritage? i am a mutt 015. Your fears? death, it sucks 016. Goal you would like to achieve

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer doing all the things

  

  to get my license.  How it’s going so far: I failed my driving test at ... have to be that guy on LinkedIn who calls himself a “incoming summer ... engineer, you’re often working on one piece of the codebase and don’t have

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  are two ways to get to New York from Boston, both departing from South ... 't already have high school friend coing to college in NYC, you're bound to ... get there around two hours before the show and drop your name into a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  Just so you all know, I'm working on a new Q&A video. Thanks for your questions, I feel loved. Special shout-out to my midwest friends. Hope you're surviving the snow! Speaking of snow, we've gotten a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... than others. If your work is getting frustrating, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  also don’t get to randomly see students I know in the hall. I also miss ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on occasion when I get to a story that has special significance to me. I believe

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  off. Improve makeup skills - Accomplished! I learned how to put on fake ... work on it. Get a summer 2022 internship. - It would be great to be ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  therapy to get some sense of how to move forward. And yet, everyone around ... myself holding back my input on certain issues because I get that Look- why ... battles every single day! Trying to chase your dreams while fighting visible

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020