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

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... to water will be safer for these children. People regularly die digging ... problems are solved mainly for those living nearest to the well, and the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  different, and that's okay. My goal is to encourage you to reflect on your own ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It ... experiences. One project wasn't enough to make generalizations for. My list

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  told me that he had a problem. On Pi Day, he had been admitted to MIT ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him to advocate for his alma mater, but he didn't. Instead, he told me that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  or noteworthy for the blogs. (Also to organize ... graduates. Also on an unlabeled CD, there was this folder called “to tim” with ... -lived time capsule, which was actually pretty fun to delve into for a couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  William Anders on the Apollo 8 mission to the moon with Frank Borman and ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I ... but I’ll probably find out what it’s for later on. Now, have I built up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i ... would be, i felt sick to my stomach. a college's admission decision, for ... decision. remind yourself to breathe and ground yourself, even if just for a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  people were unwilling to climb onto the rooftops. On October 6, 1916, MIT ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , Committee on Scholarships recommended him “for the favorable consideration of ... Bulgaria. Then he moved to Persia to do construction work for the Russian ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  countdown to EA Decision Day. December 15, 2008 was the scheduled date for ... this entry. I've been biding my time, waiting for this day and the ... limbo of deferral. This entry is for the deferred. This entry is my story

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... , on this date in 1936, a similar thought likely went through the minds

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of ... Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... steep slopes on narrow brick and stone streets; it is hidden alleyways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  refusal to reflect on what is happening in my life, but it is impossible to ... summer camp i went to for two years back in high school, and each time i ... , for saying yes to everything this summer. no single decision was bad

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  as a Tech Caller, which means I call alumni, talk to them, and ask them to donate to MIT. It’s a fascinating job, and it deserves an entire ... are excited to tell me about how they relate to MIT. Believe it or not

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT culture. At some point in the past, someone on this blog asked me whether

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  trying to pin it on anything else – race, gender, whatever – is just ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  - broadly defined - for college to matter.   I hope that this quote is ... didn't mean that it's a place to idly chat with people (although it is ... socialization. And so we have to take a great deal of care in constituting the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• 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 decent person the last time i went to urgent care i checked off “excessive crying” on the symptom list and the nurse got really confused and told me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021