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• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  able to see how insane it was, but on national television, which makes it ... Engineering Tools." 2.670's job is to get students familiar with the tools and ... display to read from 0 (joystick on the far left) to 9 (joystick on the far

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... predict how many student will attend this year. To help with the ... . How many people are on the waitlist? We offered about 1,000 applicants

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to ... on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... every waking moment feeling like you’re functioning on max capacity is

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ) where you pretty much get to do whatever you want with your life for the ... systems and how you want to change it. You’re probably stressed right now ... Boston, I decided to go on a hiking trip with some of my friends to a place

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  , texting people if they want to get lunch or go grocery shopping once they ... everywhere and lashing out to try and blame it all on something, anything — but ... idea how to use any of the equipment or what to do and i also hated the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the ... difficulty of the work, but simply jogging your brain again to compute ... you take a gap year, try to keep your mind fresh with some school

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  , face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... strategies, designating some people to squares, and others to numbers. I was on ... , resolved to get to square 256, which would be about 2.5 total hours of work

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  . It meant nothing on the larger grading scheme, but to you and your ... bit of my inner self for flaws and merits. Why, on December 13, I had to ... ’t get freaked out about classwork. I’d have class at 9 am and I’d have to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor ... are supposed to be on vacation, but whatever. The exhibits were pretty ... recommend checking it out on your way into or out of Berlin, if nothing else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  extra spots on the map. We saw a lot of stuff -- took the metro to ... that turns out. How are your applications going? The folks in admissions ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... that shows how the process works: GLASS from Mediated Matter Group on ... I saw a tweet from MIT News late last week about how some researchers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  each class who would like to have lunch on Tuesday, April 26, 2011 with ... faculty separately to assess the state of the department. Your feedback is ... respond to this e-mail with your name and your year. In the case of too many

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  arbitrary order and still confuse me from time to time. Sidequest 2: Get my ... (and still very shell shocked) to report that I’ll be working on the God ... construction of the fort railings (which basically means telling freshman how to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to ... the task, I had to find 50 unique things on campus and spent a decent ... Stud. Most food on campus is a tad expensive, so I often opt to make my

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about ... ).     Lastly, I went to a firehose lesson on physics (and also ... at this video. Nobody knows how to operate this thing because the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  yourself in, while trying to discover what caused your laser-guided amnesia ... added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background ... is just how Nintendo RPGs tend to play out. (I remember playing Dragon

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  possible to find your people at MIT. On a gut instinct, I ranked Burton ... older sister to me, reflecting on how much we've seen each other grow ... people you can come home to. Maybe they don't literally live on your same

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... advance by how meandering and rambl-y this post is about to be. Last night ... --I worked really hard to get into a place where I would have to work even

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  ."']here at the office,[/annotation] we are all getting ready to read your ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your ... and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  for that on eBay or something? The other thing I have to share with you ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire week leading up to that moment doing nothing but eating and working on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007