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

  

  University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... to Fenway’s House of Blues to catch a concert, a return home after major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of ... a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the classroom I passed a girl from among my soon-to-be audience. We made eye

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  are a ghost. You now realize you don’t need to sleep. You are already ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther ... the rocks are starting to melt. A group of identical Sloan students in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  for 7.012 =p I might have had a bit too much fun while trying to pass ... Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... since my freshman year, and I just asked Grace to take a photo of her list

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  I’ve decided to continue a long chain of poor decisions by starting ... and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  need to wear yourself out. There were a few common refrains in my ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... marketable skills you acquire from college to land a job constitutes a good

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  a large one. I need to design a language that can grow. I need to plan ... wouldn't win a science fair. When I went to a party in SF this summer, lots of people I talked to asked me about what startup I was a cofounder

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My College Essay Early Action / November 2005. ~500 words await.

  

  was a fantastic twist of fate. How much would have changed if the ... for those who were just curious as to what a decent college application ... they file tax forms,” she shot back. “Everyone does.” After a few more

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  the day, the facts remained: I wanted to go to School A and I needed to ... how it ever got to the point where I put so much emphasis on a place ... better approach and neutrality seemed impossible. As much as I tried to be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , and to add to that, I needed a specific amount of space between the tab ... to make 5 bottle openers, since I already had a few from last semester ... , then using a punch to flatten the tab of the bottle opener. This one was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  here and quadruple-major, put your nose to grindstone, and crank out a ... , being able to just switch your brain on for a few minutes and crank out ... finish with flying colors. Sound familiar? It does to me, because that

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  universities might continue to work off-campus jobs, this is very much not the ... ,[/annotation] there wasn't a realistic way for me to continue to serve 30 hrs/week like ... others or found online. Consider this more a list of opportunities to look

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  the Internet. Applying to MIT has a parallel in science: not all ... need to invest yourself in something that probably won’t work out, and if ... . Regardless of whether or not you go to MIT, you have a long, uphill battle

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  graduate. September 2019 What does it take to get to know someone? I could ... 2020 What does it take to get to know someone? I could tell you that I ... hope you enjoy reading mine. March 2020 What does it take to get to know

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  distancing. Fingers-crossed for returning to a much healthier Cambridge soon ... exceptions to simply trying to spend as much time with one another as possible ... of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... be less of a control freak, and instead need to push students to solve ... always believe in you…and take a minute to think about how much effort and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  Oasis to name a few.  Book 2 Tales of Ba Sing Se: Does this episode ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in ... . I thought this was just a laughing matter, but I was shocked to find

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  the Before Times. We got a U-haul to get all of our stuff back from EC ... , you choose to live with a[annotation note="One person who lives on Putz ... get around to this coffee table that I'd first dreamed of more than a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... . Here are some pics, looking back (omitting a lot because I don't want to ... same time, it was a hard semester for me due to all the life changes of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024