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  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  a lot of it was good, a lot of it was glowing.  It was the first time ... . In the middle of March, I set aside the novel I’m working on, promising ... I just sort of bowed my head into the storm.  A few more weeks passed

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the ... and organizations have come together to support the National Day of ... with plans to support the creation of 10 new community fabrication labs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references ... 's Today's Big Thing: And, of course, the Pi Song: And actually, if you play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally they come up, bile burning in the back of my throat, to painfully remind ... place at MIT. What good is it to be at the best school in the world if you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right ... because I had a sweet research job working in the labs of Massachusetts ... the street from Fenway Park. The first floor of the apartment building

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that ... simultaneously is a blessing and a curse -- it takes the pressure off of work much more, but also, it takes the pressure off of work thus enabling us stupid

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  of the cultural houses within New House (the others are German House ... (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... usually consists of four dishes. 2. Send the list of ingredients, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  [Editor's note in 2017: The Office of Undergraduate Advising and ... when you were in kindergarten, and the first day of class your mother ... you did on the first day of kindergarten was color. Heck, all we did on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess-the-potential-value-of ... was a fairly large hollow ceramic mushroom. And since the beginning of ... ). Unfortunately our Memory Mushroom has finite volume. In fact, by the end of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... , if you're curious) because it sounded good despite our notable lack of ... asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  So I'm writing from the end of a well-needed break back in San ... by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  , so I put some on. The first piece went on kind of lopsided, so I pulled it off...and off came all of the sticky duct tape residue with it! Eureka! I of course proceeded to clean up the laptop surface with the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... exactly the same. On top of hearing variations (or combinations) of “slay ... agreement, or as an adjective, i.e. “so true of the professor for letting us

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  shock. And hearing this song, I realized that the good times of my ... "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The famous Pioneer Zephyr trains of the 1940's were ... professors. During the first week of my product design and development class ... 't. Granted, most of it probably has to do with the sweet beard that I've grown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  top of yesterday's already heavy mail . The records office staff are ... , would her reccomendation be taken seriously?" Absolutely! The content of ... the College Board. Mike asks, "Matt, if I mail a cassette tape of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  about - just that you're passionate about something. The character of the MIT community. Our community is comprised of good people. People who ... people who by nature will sustain the qualities of this community. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  Since nearly two-thirds of the admitted students are attending Campus ... Machine": One part of CPW mythology is the "Weather Machine" -- that somehow ... substantial portion of the Class of 2012 will be on campus, so it would actually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008