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  The Ides of March

  

  . David is off to the CUNY Honors College next year. The STS awards ceremony is a black tie event; I was sporting my tux. It's a pretty swank ... think a big part of that is it's not really in the nature of the science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an active class so we're able to have our laptops open, and it's acceptable ... So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak ... will also help. If you want to see the kids sweating it out about to take ... . you'd seen plenty of photo already.) Your feedback is important to me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  . It took me almost a full semester to get into the class, which is ... of Course 2 lab space. But no matter what it is you want to do, I ... there lots of CNCs? Is it okay to use the shop in the wee hours of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  it is like to live without an ambition - to constantly suggest new ... can: “It is well known the drunken sailor who staggers to the left or ... a few years on each is this really what i want? it’s always hard to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  of the world (though it may feel like it tomorrow). I'd like you to think of it as an invitation. For some, it will be an invitation to see ... about your lives and how your individual stories have brought you to this

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  French ability. The French program is new, and it’s taking 5 students to ... great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  it is going to help them get into MIT. So where did this idea come ... .   It is indeed unusual for a school like MIT to have no preference for ... privilege for the advantaged.” For you to receive legacy preference, it means

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.

  

  station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this ... it.) If anyone has seen a more nerdy/cute billboard, I'd like to hear about it. Until then, I'll consider this one to be the best.

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  priority for me right now. This is true, but it is also hard to accept. I ... trying to decide what it is and if I want it to change at all. At the very ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  playlist, and we did. Here it is - listen to it while you read this post ... listening to it on repeat as well. Music is contagious. The Last Ship by ... Tunes, although it was nice to have premade playlists in genres that I liked. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  , random funny videos, and musicals. Whatever it is that you go to when you ... , but it is actually uncanny how déjà vu senior year of college feels. It’s ... to fill out. Though, it was very cathartic to write these first two

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  , especially when it comes to something as important as finances. Is the reply ... apply to law schools straight out of undergrad each year. Is it difficult ... necessary; it all comes down to your reasoning, which is I'm happy to say is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  decorations. It's always easy to know what to get your mom or significant other ... One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... great, if not THE great living glass blower, Lino Tagliapietra, is working

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  understand parts of it pretty well, or are beginning to. This is of course ... this was a really good decision, and continue to highly recommend it. I ... 't mentioned here before is my feeling that it is super under-appreciated by

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  , it's time to accept the fact that another class is about to start applying. I know it's fun to complain on the internet, I do it all the time, but it's time to move on. :) Speaking of classes applying to MIT for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  winter break is nice and all, especially when it runs over into iap ... bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend ... lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  realize they made a mistake but feel that it is unacceptable to switch back ... are able to reject it. it is like how neoclassicism is not the same as ... okay to change your mind. it is okay to change your mind twice. it is

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  [/annotation] happens once a year, and it is filled with up to 3 days of many very ... needed to write quite a lot to say not just what it is like, but why we ... checked well. It is no fun to just guess from ten possible answers where

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  it's amazing how much help and good will is available to you if you ... today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025