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  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  took lots and lots of pictures for your enjoyment. I woke up super early ... capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  slew of internships I applied for, a strange idea popped into my mind ... , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of ... more than two-thirds of the programming on PBS. In other words, I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post. NOTE: You needn’t have worked in a lab nor done research to enter. It’s that time of year ... seriousness, starting a project was kind of a milestone for me in high school

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Build awesome What to do if you like to build stuff.

  

  -scratch inventions and creations get our attention in the same way that many of those ... look around MIT for lots of examples of cool projects, like: Disco ... resources. I think you'll like these; I know I do. MAKE: It all starts with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  description: We learn how to code predictive models of biological processes ... Howdy folks. It's freebie time - for the 99.9% of you readers who don ... , "Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We each

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  [/caption] 6.809 (Interactive Music Systems) - This class is taught by one of the ... absorbing all of the amazing energy"]GDC[/annotation] this year, which is ... Let me preface this post by saying: I don't think I've figured out

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces yourselves.) I am a creature of habit. As evidenced by the facts that my ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.

  

  people here have become gaseous by high-energy interactions. Um, okay. On ... Let’s take a tour. Begin by walking down Dorm Row, which takes you past almost all the dorms in West Campus. Stop when you are greeted by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 29, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  from the college process.  While the specifics of each situation varies ... I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  give them a list of cool things you did- and by that I don't mean a ... together a hybrid with the most important parts of each. By the time I was ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  be difficult, but most selective processes are characterized by this ... (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so I wanted to post a quick entry that answered some of them publicly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting ... Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien (I owe Prof. Bahr for much of my current reading ... of stars and watch the process unfold. I decided to try out astronomy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /production process, and 100% of it was conjured by Loren, who I have come to suspect is ... of scope offered by our humanities courses, which is sort of the best ... /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... ’t think of a better way to showcase the Muslim community than through some of the most amazing women I’ve met at MIT. Throughout the past year

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... at is English. Being good at failing means not being phased by it, and ... this process down. Although I was very excited and happy when I first

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  's preceded and followed by a lot of info-sessions, panels, networking events ... takes a lot of gumption or energy. Read, talk, bathe, lie in the sun ... of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  once again made the NCAA (Division III) tournament! You can follow all of ... Debate Team of Adam Goldstein ’10 and Bill Magnuson ’09 won the ... debate tournament in North America" -- by defeating McGill University in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  . The hand-like tree is symbolic of making both by nature and life and by ... designed by the MIT Educational Studies Program. We run a variety of programs ... in time) by drawing scenes of my surroundings or things that I

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

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other ... surgery). One of the ways we do this is by synthesizing various hydrogels ... much been a whirlwind of activity. For once I have absolutely no problem

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008