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  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  the truly worthy will be able to dance at graduation with a diploma in ... first concept to understand is the General Institute Requirements (GIRs). In a nutshell, everybody at MIT has to either take or pass out of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never ... (much to the delight of the tiny boy who was recruiting rides): And rock

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  assume the lock is supposed to go while you are riding the bike. Again ... Unni, how are you supposed to put the lock in the holder?" "You slide it ... nothing, yet I still feel like the Harvard Police Department is going to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  first-year student in college is much larger that the typical gap within ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class ... think this was one of the most important decisions I made in my freshman

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log ... . Most students who applied to MIT in early action this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  after a governor in a hotel lobby gave us tickets to the show.  We also ... who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and ... person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  on a quest to become a hero" story. The art is vibrant and imaginative ... demon in the sense that he has no morals, and will do anything to get what ... literature, on the need to lose. Quick context: MTG is a card game, mana screws

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  something. In this day and age, this is far from the truth. You can go to a ... prestigious school in the world. Harvard is a meme. Harvard is camp. Back to ... Moines looks the same as my audience in Paris. As this is a college

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  THE BURTON THIRD BOMBERS pset, party, pset and party party, rinse, repeat

  

  me to MIT, and Burton-Conner in particular, is the fact that it allows ... !" DTYD itself is held in mid-April, but the weeks leading up to it are full ... a hack. This tradition is a great opportunity for the freshmen to bond

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take ... . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar ... prototyping. This is what I worked on over the summer (as much of it as I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  . I am in the office from 1:30 to 5:15 so drop it off sometime between ... so psyched to leave. Then, just in time for the home stretch I caught ... actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves ... expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this ... delivered pretty much the most amazing musical experience I've ever had. 6. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading folders A little bit more on evaluating applications.

  

  longer essay? The Part II is a great place for us to get to hear your voice ... to see who has the most APs; I do want to see, though, that you've done ... very helpful in getting to know you. Finally, I read the interview

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  there is so much to be explored. Can we truly model that moth flitting in ... . Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my ... stratum is the Charles itself, then Cambridge in its quiet glory. I never

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  ’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... ’s shabbos candles. The door handle is a beaver cast in bronze.  [carousel ... old. So much thought goes into the process of any project: where to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] Welcoming you to “Here at MIT” student art in the new welcome center

  

  time spent painting in the welcome center is a much-needed and ... Welcome Center. The new center is going to be the starting point for ... augmented reality to their tunnel murals, and four years later the club is

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 3, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Video games I’ve played this semester trimps, mother 3, hades, and vampire survivors

  

  of early access, and I'm excited to see what else is coming in the game. ... in my Steam library that I'm working through. The trouble is that I ... added. If you get into it, expect to leave it running in the background

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  "] Memes. Please put them in the comments section. Things To Do While You ... .[annotation note="the truly observant will be able to decipher the order in which the ... out. I have yet to buy a single candle. To the mountains. Wake up

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  things about MIT so far is that you can show up to pretty much any event or ... , which is one of the reasons I like it so much :) [annotation note ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  something I could ever establish an interest in. The weird thing is that I ... 's interesting! The process of getting to an answer is grueling, but figuring out how to get to it is really satisfying. Additionally, I like the two

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022