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  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  an alarming rate from the shoots, and wanted to know what would be the ... disks for work computers. By the end of it Erich asked if I'd be ... shots (see if you can spot the Brass Rat!): So to sum it up, because

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my ... dedicate to my writing than I really would have liked, which is one of the ... me a while to get my thoughts down on paper (or motherboard, as the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they ... 't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  everyone, even if they belong here. The best we can do is try to build a ... worked so hard to include the world in that passion that Amtrak noticed and ... the part about what’s important in life. If you don’t see that Katharine

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Best Advice I Ever Got Take it or leave it.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the ... . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... names nontrivially affect the names they'll be known by. Many interns end

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  strange to me. But being able to walk to work, and pass restaurants and ... , however, and one of those can be access to nutritious, affordable food. For ... I consume. Another relatively recent addition to the Central Square

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to go to the Concert in Bad Taste. Or go on the Burton-Conner boat cruise ... to make a graph of the number of credit-hours of class I've taken per

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... So the other day I was reading an article on slashdot about Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  crystals. The colors and shapes are as pure as can be.   Above left: To me ... convenient dust cap and the rotating end can be connected to a rotary switch to ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later what happened after pi day 2011

  

  more important than BE NICE. I have noticed that if you are nice to ... I've gotten a number of email responses to my blog post about the ... hadn't heard from him since Pi Day 2011; he revived the old thread to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  with the “big lighter” and the sushi knife). Looks pro but to be honest ... . You don’t even have to physically be there (during the cooking process ... [annotation note="Defined by being able to elicit the strongest preference under

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... photos are truly fantastic and they manage to capture the breathtaking

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  subject of the contract (some land being given to monks from Pontigny ... try to analyze the wording of the contracts and draw some useful ... to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... 's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are brilliantly talented, the very asset that got you in will be the biggest and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  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 ... this. procrastination is like hard drugs–comforting, if only for the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the

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

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the ... recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... centering the Department of Economics, this display chooses to center one of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023