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• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  supervisor actually just said to me, "We have a small problem this afternoon ... have to go home early too." I don't really see how that is a problem ... , "Being smart isn't knowing all the answers. It's knowing where to find them

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... grease does weird things. Anywho, on to the stuff that actually lets me ... , what are my chances . . . .) Number one isn't so much of an issue with a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little ... in applications, and the class council does some magical process to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  socializing a task I had to complete every day. I recognize that phrasing it this way makes it seem like a chore, but I needed a way to hold myself ... introverted, and my social bandwidth is limited, even more so when it comes to

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably ... to take care of pretty much all of their expenditures, choosing to live

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... through Colón to see how excited everyone was. Here's a view from behind of ... direction. Obviously they are leaving the game, so I just need to walk in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  , I was the only one able to go, which meant that I didn't know a single ... LED (no joke). And, I'm happy to report that after a month and a half of ... for me to leave for vacation on a high note. (That's right, vacation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  , Design Squad cast members learn to think smart, build fast, and contend ... converting kiddie toys into a dragster to creating moving art for a museum and ... had the opportunity to work for him for a while, since we are both in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  Cavity” to show me how much more I need to learn and make me okay with that ... you get all A’s!!!” Everything I need to know, I haven’t learned from ... into MIT. That's the main statistic you need to be concerned with. Yeah

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  generation to begin a process of making this system a system that does what it ... a mix of anxious premeds and kids trying to convince their parents ... have a lot of persuading to do), I love biology and I spend a lot of my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  first to create a portrait of a person or a place. Abby showscases this ... the blogs. The second assignment was then to create a 3-5 minute video ... assignment. The third assignment was to create a 5-7 minute documentary that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  students who are being shut out, whether it's a smart American kid who has to ... "smart American kid who has to opt for a solid state school when they had ... credible answers to a few questions that the painfully shallow news coverage

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  off sales figures faster than a cash register, needs $300,000 to go to ... purpose of a movie is to entertain. 21 does do a decent job at entertaining ... to day basis (or maybe, a subset of MIT still does, one that I don

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  needed to learn welding as a prerequisite for the IAP class where you build ... trigger for about a second to initiate the arc, and release. Keep the torch ... 've developed a much deeper understanding of how the process works and how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  feeling though, a feeling that told me not to worry too much about it, so I ... 'm looking to answer. seven. cj A situation can trigger memories of a similar ... months ago, Brian moved out of LoTaD to start a master's in Oxford, and

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley’s experience teaching Splash, a weekend for high school students to come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... the morning and headed over to check-in. This is a three-hour shift of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... . I mean, what good does it do you to be competitive? Nobody would help

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  something much closer to this: these two graphs are a world apart; in ... play, i noticed a pattern that i was not able to explain at the time ... have been saving up money for a major purchase you’re likely to quickly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... sorts of things I want to do. It would be helpful, sure, but a solid ... 's climate system, a topic I find much more interesting. I wonder if I'm doing

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  need, out of fairness to the students. Carlos asked, "Hey matt, does MIT ... action would be if you don't meet the criteria to apply as a freshman -- e ... making a decision. random person, "Hrm, not sure if this is the place to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005