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  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  ="104682" /] Part 2: T-14 Summer slipped by through the ceaseless flow of meetings and ... , and by the unprecedented time of 7am on a Saturday morning, we had ... Hack ‘23 experience of being carted by Maggie around the Ice Rink (and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  mathematical...blah blah...find the mechanical energy of a object blah blah blah ... So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the ... was walking out of Lobby 7 after spending the afternoon teaching my last

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really ... adversely impact our review. I have highlighted a handful of my least ... guidance.  While the sheer number of ways that applicants find to not follow

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually, I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D

  

  disappointment, a devil of a butler. We do entertain at your leisure so come by ... a structure. Catamorphism: the consumption of a structure ... Late August is upon us: the last of the graduating seniors have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 26, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  ’t worry if some of that doesn’t make it in by the Nov. 1 deadline (do make ... The first round of application deadlines are upon you, which means ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  and get letters of recommendation. (By the way…I’m writing this on the ... existence.) I had all of my secondary applications submitted by the beginning ... practice of medicine and research process. When it came time to seriously

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  drinking coffee. This dream was dashed by my hatred of breakout rooms and my ... refund to almost cover one month of rent + a new dresser + a new desk chair ... Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... left living right next door to some of my closest friends. 84 hours left

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  people In Real Life has always kind of freaked me out to some (albeit small ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not that being an introvert is necessarily bad (check out Quiet by Susan Cain

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  honestly, most of the quotes that get sent to this list have similar energies ... Some of you may recall Shuli's whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  recent, unedited, contrasting samples of your best work for evaluation by ... evaluated by members of the MIT art & architecture faculty. Your artistic ... I'm often asked about supplemental material. None of the below is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Honestly, I'm proud of how it turned out! Inspired by the "Retro ... . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , there is a wide variety of places around campus where you can get your hands on some power tools- of the large variety. One of the principle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  webcast of the final product presentations, which begins ~7PM ET, by ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT. For my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  this in six weeks?"]six-week process[/annotation] of putting together a ... remarkably recovered by one of the other actors."]There were hiccups ... , or if we are simply constrained by all of our busy schedules. I am

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  advance by emailing [email protected]. Learn more about this process ... of the MIT first-year application. QuestBridge Finalists that ranked
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate average Research & Development cost of one drug is around $850 million

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  of any interviewers available here by any chance?" Yes, we have about a ... ! ------------------------------------- Brendan wrote, "My athletics coach only sends letters of recommendation directly to the admissions office. In this case, the letter of recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the ... essential aspect of the college admissions process, it is somewhat problematic ... they achieve by taking advantage of the opportunity. The flip side of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012