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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  –this place really does that to you. it wrecks you. it tears you down; makes you ... we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office ... . It turned out to be for my grad student (I say “my”, but in reality I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  , perhaps living on their campus. It is so much more important to do your ... that applying to college is a time where you need to focus on yourself ... they expected, so try to be open as much as you can. Gemini Many in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  need to invest yourself in something that probably won’t work out, and if ... When I hit puberty my inability to assess risk thank goodness ... -hipster phase. I loved setting up ridiculous goals and then reaching them, just to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... could cry, then I would much rather them leave me alone and allow me to ... me. My summer adventures, the time I felt for once I was beginning to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  and a huge campus. You need to be more intentional, unless they ... called me out and said man, you need to be careful because last semester ... definitely no longer wanting to explore as much. So I got closer to some. But

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• 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 ... , which is the temperature needed for iron to turn red"]cold[/annotation] by ... blade needed to be for the balance point to be 2-3”.  However, my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that people once tried to renovate but eventually gave up on to let them ... i. I visited my high school over the winter break. I came back to my ... family first because they’re eventually going to move there. That means

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 12, 2023
• 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 ... :30am and 3am. While not always effective, when I need to do something, I ... and my target completion time of 12pm (when I needed to leave for the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  from the State House Dome transferred some night to the big dome of ... built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... hoses, whereupon the serenaders deemed it more advisable to move to drier

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  included) need oxygen, and you can’t find much oxygen as you progress lower ... region, we didn’t need to go very deep. We simply needed to get away from ... future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  to the 6.036 LA "I have to go -- I need to go staff 031." And she ... A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• 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 ... just need to see an example, but another might need to see it graphically ... understanding of basic math, and you have no time to teach them what they need to

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

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  , continuing on the course 6 path will generally allow us much less time to take ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree and the other the minimum amount of classes we need to finsih a CMS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  transportation. Once I moved to Boston I went to Wheelworks - the best bike shop ... Summer hath come to Boston, as demonstrated by the fact that bitter ... the Norwottuck Rail Trail from my house in Belchertown to school in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  , once put it, “If you have to pause, for more than a second or two, to ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to ... . When the questions began, I will admit to being a little perplexed by

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  pioneer, and the second woman to graduate from MIT Robert Noyce '53 ... '16 Akamai, the content delivery network that handles 30% of the ... public-sanitation and environmental chemistry expert and the first woman to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find ... parking lot. Since it was said to be too much of an eyesore, however, the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There Is No Formula A formula would take the human component out of our process, which is perhaps the…

  

  test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... This whole “is there a formula to get into MIT” thing that’s been ... understand that people want answers and explanations, but… alas. Trying to

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004