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  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  country, which isn't saying much as Israel is only the size of New Jersey ... ’s a nice change of pace from the school year, which is practically non ... drop out of my time either. The summer is a great opportunity to rest and

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the big interests of the lab is to figure out which genes cause neural ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a ... engineering major named Adam, and we dated for the rest of our years at MIT. In

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  education is to learn as much as possible. 2) Make all of your figures before ... remainder of the report is just filling in the words—trivial. In fact, it ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the ... any university in the world. At the heart of it is a cleanroom with a ... squares being brighter in the final image. It’s pretty much the opposite of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  the Self-Assembly Lab; this week we heard from David Sun Kong of the ... complete my distribution. The first assignment is called "Critter": the goal is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  doesn’t even look like much of a bridge outside of the fact that it ... . So, the experience of crossing it is as follows: starting from ... they obscure the view of water from that side. To your left is Route 28

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... desperately want. But the person that I am in this universe is a function of ... there is always the possibility of being denied. Nothing is ever

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  wondering in the back of my head how much of the population as a whole is ... well. That, after all, is the meaning of having a community. Much ... forth. The committee is entirely frosh, and we're excited! Some of us

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... the applications of ballerinas, inventors, artists, software developers ... . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  of philosophy, MIT is committed to the idea of equal access to higher ... costs of running an admissions office are vast, and the application fee ... pay the application fee. It is safe to say that you should apply for an

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  community.   What IS Cru? Cru is a caring community of individuals committed to sharing the love of Jesus Christ with people on campus. We do tons of events throughout the year to connect students and grow together

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  -quarters classes (45 credits), which is the smallest number of credits that I have ... : Firstly, MIT will train you how to think. The Latin motto of this school is ... respective majors. It is very much true, although the difficulty and pain does

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  dome of the 200-inch Hale telescope, which is (as I learned from First ... the most of what is available to you.   3. Grad school was tough ... to find a mentor who is supportive of the search!) Unfortunately in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  part of the suit) outside. The Center for Bits and Atoms shop is the ... is sometimes only visible in the limits of your imagination. Can you ... . Is the mechanical engineer you think of an African woman? Can you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  In the Realm of Giants imposter syndrome with a senior year twist

  

  ,[/annotation] because my only frame of reference is the before and the broken. The before ... plagues all seniors at the end of their undergraduate career: getting my act ... school, or go to an extended retreat in the mountains of Italy, you most

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  . Persepolis is an autobiographical graphic novel that tells a story of the ... emanates from the firing of neurons in our brains, and the latter is an idea ... consciousness is composed of elementary particles - both the characters in His

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  the two sides of a heart to be even is about as easy as herding cats ... guard against other blades; the tip of the tail is a thumb guard; the ... I could get a measure of how much mass was in each part of the sword

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  of this advice is not that your intent necessarily matters to the ... be the one you think is correct. Of course, now that I’ve given you ... extent. Of course, as is the point of this blog post, you could choose

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  afraid of (or excited by) the co-ed bathrooms. The thrill is over in about 2 seconds. Wednesday is the middle of the week; therefore on ... second of every day, watching TV is pretty much a waste of your time and a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the number is around twenty. There are hundreds of student groups that ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008