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  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major ... opinions, is the epitome of the epitome of using animation to not just tell a ... 6 part of our major and switch to CMS entirely?  The major we stick

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  lines of scripted dialogue, the recruiter moved on to other students. I turned back to the boba. At the bottom of each cup, tapioca pearls clotted ... the honor of meeting so many vibrant, curious souls—but to eighteen

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of ... to judge, as I am one of the n00biest coders 'round these parts), but ... sense of horror. Take, for instance, the way he responds to the question

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  some parts of the path, there were even options for us to take depending ... the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ ... ’ve been a better idea to do it at a warmer time of the year, but well… Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  't transfect yet, I calculate the amount of each DNA which will be added to my ... :30 AM. I move on to the next thing on my list: subcloning some pieces of ... to my subcloning. I add some of the DNA mix to a tube of bacteria, heat

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  -facing tables. To top it all off, it’s located in the heart of main campus. I thought to highlight this space, so I asked Nandini, one of the main staff ... providing a space dedicated to women’s needs, especially in the context of the

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  calculated the center of mass to determine the length of the supports we needed ... One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to ... along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  already doing research in the field I want to dedicate the rest of my life ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I ... maybe the first time in your life, all of your peers will be as smart as

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Surviving MIT Spreading the word, take this to heart

  

  to heart, it's some of the best advice concerning MIT you'll find ... , and was left feeling so dumb. I had the fortune of living next to a ... how to study on your own in the absence of a teacher or curriculum

  • by Snively '11
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... me that due to the Law of Conservation of Freshmen, I'll still be a ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life ... around the idea of learning without structure, but i'm excited to see how

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  the inexplicable, my go-to answer became: ‘Someone gave a lot of money for me to go.’ While the answer sufficed through its cynicism, a kind of ... weather was the least of my problems. Flash-forward to a 45-minute train

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  observes, being "out" is not the only way to be LGTBQ+, and the costs of ... not have more of these stories told in the first person.)  To amplify, and in some cases protect, the voices of these students who have to use

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of MIT's Intro to EECS classes, with each of the Intro to EECS classes ... were trying to accomplish and followed it. I took my 6.08 kit out of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  to explain this, researchers have hypothesized about the impact of ... mental rotation exercises. “Mental rotation” here refers to the act of ... the romance of egalitarianism aside, though, to talk about empiricism

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  though, it’s easy to fall into the routine of thinking of yourself as smart ... to be a part of, and I have never regretted the decision. 2. Freshman ... can fall into the trap of thinking that your success is due solely to a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  lines in Harry Potter, I relate to this moment in Order of the Phoenix the ... hearts, and we are envious of the institutions that get to be a part of ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  II and III. Part of the reason why I'm reluctant to say I'm premed ... III again, I just want to establish some ground rules about the kind of ... Premeds to have numbers around the 3.6-3.8 range. In terms of my GPA

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  grades and outgrew the small staircases, my place in the hierarchy of smart ... moment I joined the MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group to see everyone ... called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018