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• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  to worry about it in the first semester, which is pass/no record.) It ... and warn. In my experience, they've been some of the greatest, most ... -stage to their partners in rhyme and to their fans in the audience. The

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  out which produce is closer to ripening. in one of the labs we built an ... like magic to me - in the sense that the material was so far beyond my ... that they were the exact same: i’m not going to talk much about the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  i've realized i spend most of my time trying to divorce myself from the present, lingering in corners of the past. revisiting things that ... about blog posts i want to write, i gravitate towards the reflective ideas

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  information. It’s probably one of the most interesting concepts in the world to ... listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  meandering my nonlinear academic path so far

  

  major. 6-9 is a very flexible major: you can decide to focus on the ... how much I enjoyed being in the makerspace, making physical objects that ... classes. In order to take 2.007 Design & Manufacturing I (the robot

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 5, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  , but it is a lot to put into words at the moment—so I have chosen to ... .   4   I have a quote and poem to share. quote "In the ... . “Hope” is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  wrote Axes of Confusion. In the end, what let us decide to dedicate last ... happens in the this Michael Jackson Music Video)! Coding is now fun ... in the process! Also fun fact: Nisha is also in this class and we are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  the term, working desk is a great opportunity for me to make a little ... every time somebody rings the intercom to get in the main entrance. The ... midway to check out Alicia '06 performing in the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  've left around 10 and gotten to class in time!! what about the infamous 15 ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... my bike in a car and driving down to Cambridge. and the benefits are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  relationships with professors, something that is much harder to do in the larger ... is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the ... made a pact to share the fruits of their research and resources in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  in spurts and spasms, and it can hurt. The transition is not a straight ... of, in order to graduate from MIT), most freshmen take some sort of ... continue in 8.012 or drop down to regular 8.01. The unfortunate caveat: I had

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... that?? is that even REAL??). All of our student EMTs are certified in the ... /7 urgent care, though we take most emergent patients to the surrounding

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  first UROP at the robotics lab. In the same way that I had wanted to ... much alive, which is perhaps the greatest benefit of choosing ... yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  least five times in the past few months, but never gotten around to ... semester in order to present you an honest picture of life at MIT. There is ... . The reason I keep coming back to this blog post, however, is that even

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  MIT is absinthe used to demonstrate the real-life relevance of binary ... to Random after class, I took a picture for the Internet. What else is ... ” (in the eternal words of Donald Guy '12, who, unlike basically everyone

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 3 Helping the Class of 2010 with their decisions.

  

  The third in a series... With fewer than 10 days to go until the May ... , another anon, the email address doesn't seem to be the one in our database ... aid is resolved. We want you to be able to make the best decision you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... 's used in pretty much every research lab in the entire world. Even Glad ... film for numerous uses in the typical laboratory including the typical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  -Set for the day is: how much transparent concrete would I need to safely ... ) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an essentially millennia-old technology. MIT is in on the concrete re

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  . Although I didn't make the most of the free food (I was having so much fun I ... As promised, I offered the chance to write a guest blog to prefrosh during CPW. This is just the first installment. There are many more coming

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007