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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  't a wrong way to do it, just as long as you submit something. Incoming freshmen do not have to pre-register. I panicked a little about this after an ... only have a year left at MIT, and there's no way I'm going to get to take

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT ... ="attachment_86574" align="aligncenter" width="768"] (The cat to the right is a random ... measure material properties down to the nanometer – that’s a billionth of a

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

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the ... kind of hard. It’s only been a few days, and it’s hard to process how I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  began to blur together into hexadecimal soup, I decided I needed a break ... semester. Usually I know better than to take six classes in a semester. But ... need to sleep occasionally, “Hell Week” has become my new steady

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  walk carrying/pushing your things. I have a car, so I can drive to Costco ... . They do deliver —  for free! —  to campus right now, via a partnership ... does Daily Table do all this? Well, a Harvard Business School case study

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per ... -Stokes equation, while the girl next to you does quantum physics and somebody else

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  time, you’ll need to distance yourself from the process a bit. Care about ... sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  I think I've accidentally begun a quest to be involved with ALL THE ... course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 Videos Program. That last one might sound a little familiar to the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?

  

  a yoga ball chair to reduce back pain. I read on an external monitor ... excruciating. I miss talking to my colleagues, and I’m a notorious waffler, often in need of a second opinion. When I’m really desperate for human

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • January 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  ’m around people for long periods of time and need to spend a sizable amount ... plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... reverting back to a comp sci major. But pretty much, whenever it comes to ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  way to model a cube in 3D? Certainly, there's a very easy way to make a ... , where you'll click and drag to make a planar [annotation note="hold shift while you do it to make a square"]rectangle,[/annotation] and then drag to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  wanted to be a doctor -- which, at the time, was no longer a settled matter ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self ... relaxed, but don't forget to propel yourself along. Third, there's no need

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... hours giving me a crash course in the linear algebra one needs to know for ... off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  handed me a stack of poker chips. “Use these to place bets.” She gestured ... -actualization when one could listen to podcasts wirelessly? A few minutes later, I was ... towards some inevitable death. Game over. I handed my poker chips to a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• 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 ... hard to hear, especially when we seem to be coming from a position of ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

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

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two ... took the name of the weekend much more seriously. There was a Bad Ideas ... first-floor hallway, to make a linear, multicolored, psychedelic display

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s Not Me, It’s You How to kiss goodbye to a school that rejected you

  

  ’s attempt to gain a command was somewhat futile to begin with because he was ... can determine whether you’re offered admission to a school that have ... motivation to apply to a great school like MIT or any other top university, you

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 29, 2016