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

  

  wanted to take a picture and turn it into a full-on solar cell. Creating ... 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

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

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale ... their potential ability to see a fourth dimension of color. But I really ... . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  here, MIT places a heavy premium on being able to create - being able to ... Hello MIT blogs! I love blogging. I applied to be a blogger on whim ... 's nothing else to throw up, so maybe I should take a mini-break? All the

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

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  shared together, it becomes a lot harder to create the same kind of social ... engage a population that may not want or have the energy to engage with us ... and so much harder to spend quite as much time staring at a screen. In

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  .  Here is a link to more information that has everything you need to know ... in no way saying that everyone needs to join a sorority, but I am ... interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to create a helpful tool.* However, this tool is unhelpful. In fact ... does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... College Applicants What Their Chances Are. It's created quite a buzz on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  part of a community that inspires me to create, challenges me to accept ... to create and then create. Like my clubs, a community of people I share ... club, the place would recruit a remarkable amount of energy to help pull

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  to a need with which many other bloggers past and present concurred ... way to blog? Maybe like creating a profile that any blogger can use when ... is from 2009, when Laura published a guide to the MIT Rainbow Lounge. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• 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 / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement ... fly. This is a place that is very conducive to taking these passions ... . To begin the cringe, the video opens with two students in a lab. They

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  because they need to, of course). I didn't have a single class before 1pm ... of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... considered a full course load (supposedly equivalent to 48 hours of work per

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  me from Raleigh, North Carolina to Atlanta, Georgia and a dozen places ... to a thousand-person MIT revival in an Atlanta auditorium. Whenever I speak to students or their families, be it on travel or during a campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  caught the fever and engaged in a vicious and terrible battle to the death ... like to be in a class where I don't know everyone's name, and not ... responsibility is now yours to form a student-teacher relationship. Otherwise they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  much install anything you wanted, suddenly not being able to was a shock ... sweet for a jolt of energy? To keep walking, click here. To go in and buy ... . According to MIT, about 73 percent of undergraduates live in a dorm on campus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  punishment amount, players would enter how much to invest, be paired with a ... : One player, the endgame controller, creates a deal to split $150 among ... afterward to try and create a final game with the dynamics we wanted. Each of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  ask, does a fluorescent light need to be controlled? You have likely ... in the first place, you need to provide a HUGE voltage. So why aren ... conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... (still) parentheticals. Off to a rocking start). I'm sure at this point ... 'm inclined to do something different, but as a last-minute blogger, I'm not

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  sexually explicit. I wanted to include such terms in an effort to present a real, unfiltered picture of the information you need to know and real ... physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Robo-CJ writes haiku “didn’t you already make a blog post about this?”

  

  Poetry Day! It's not very much of a leap to think that I could be bisexual ... have long since disproved so let's move on to haikubot why do we need a ... need to do my real analysis homework by mistake The details are rather

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 17, 2020
• 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 ... . You go to create a pset. You wrap nearby wifi antennas in foil and ... again. There is a tunnel from lobby 7 to the basement of W20. Farther

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016