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  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  thought it would be pretty cool to do it again -- and by coincidence, the ... chillier than May feels like it should be. I walked a little further this day ... constitution using only my phone. (It appears to be a mostly

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  when I was seven, and at the time that I would one day be determined to ... novel about my last trip to Ethiopia, it would still be an incoherent ... being called foreign in a place I consider home, or about the differences

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  undergraduates. Students must be supported by their alma mater -- in this case, by ... have stayed at home and thought of here? Where should we be today? It ... . “In the States, that would never work. There would be riots,” I said

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  peers to be the “perfect” student or “perfect” applicant to colleges when ... tried to avoid being the 1,000th person who said they would want to travel ... about how I wanted to be like Kaylee and explore space with a crew that

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  designs. The original plan was for students to submit pictures to be etched ... squares being brighter in the final image. It’s pretty much the opposite of ... silicon as possible to the sunlight (so the solar cell would be decently

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  be around people, usually in a coffee shop, I took smaller projects ... fancy legit pin I got. My biggest cross stitch moment had to be when I ... my basement! AdMITs attending the virtual CPW this year will be the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  campus is a group of buildings, not to be confused with the building that ... Street is north campus. We’ll be focusing on building numbers. Buildings ... being located in main campus. (Again, East Campus the building is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  shocker. The next ones amuse. Why not enjoy a learned human being making jabs at a school of other learned human beings? Teachers often invite ... claimed that the P vs NP problem would soon be solved. It’s the 2010’s now

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  people who tends to be late to things and sometimes misses things because ... weaknesses (working under pressure) turned out to be something I can be good at

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  Court. I was sad because there was a chance that this wouldn't be my life, and that if I did get into MIT, it would be against all odds. Even the ... setbacks, from heartbreak, from getting fired, from being rejected. Why

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  center, the baby will come flying out, to be caught in a net. The obvious ... went along, and brought my little sister. She was excited to be there ... that some people would be physically capable of running across the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Everyone is involved with a million activities, which can be frustrating when ... conversation starter. I’m surprised that the song, "It sucks to be me," isn ... to be able to take pretty much any class, in any department, at any

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  will probably be my downfall one day when I'm ninety-two in a backless ... : Wonder vaguely why anyone would be awake now, especially to put sugar in ... the hospital." "You had to be there; it was AWESOME."). 9:14 PM

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  American food can be summed up in two words: [annotation note="For the sake ... "]hosed[/annotation] MIT students (although I haven’t started being hosed yet?). Fig. 4 ... cuisine: fast food. Can be served in under fifteen minutes. All ingredients

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
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  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  upstairs in the houses and patios overlooking secret courtyards. Being here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , superior, but the differences cannot be resolved. Harvard and MIT are two T ... places again, including the sunny Boston skyline. Being a double agent can be exhausting. I’m used to different college ways and interactions, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Merit When getting into MIT isn't convincing enough

  

  and steady, because my job is to be pleasant and polite and help people ... be exceptional—because if you’re accepted to MIT, you are exceptional—and hope that’s enough to change minds. It won’t always be, but remember: the

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  the path you choose gets difficult, it will be very helpful to rekindle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  case may be), partly because sometimes other, more interesting thoughts march inside my head and demand to be taken out and allowed to shine ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  to be said, but for now I'm going to get back to the reading...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004