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  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  design, I'm taking this class as an intro to the field and also because I need one more [annotation note="art class"]HASS-A[/annotation] to ... is to optimize a tennis-ball-sized creature through a series of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  building a class and a community. You don't need to apologize for what you ... . Posts include "It's an honor and a privilege to be in here with you all," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  bandwidth to pay attention to them now. a few days after i turned in my thesis ... ) and swiss army man (also excellent, also emotional) and went to a house ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  and the other the minimum amount of classes we need to finsih a CMS ... Humanities and Engineering. It is a super cool joint major that allows you to ... a double major because, well, it equates to the units of one major

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A ... with a full-blown Tron Guy. Photo Opp! Unfortunately after registration I had to go take a math test. I should take this opportunity to say

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... something to put on my resume. A: Why do you need something to put on your ... topic is interesting to me. A: Why does that make you want the UROP? B

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Show, Don’t Tell! (the College Essay, Pt. 2) My take on the MIT short essays.

  

  which you are used to seeing in print. (ii) Never use a long word where a short one will do. (iii) If it is possible to cut a word out ... once upon a time, I wrote a blog comparing the college essay to froyo

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  need to give different ones a shot, and you need to find which one fits ... : being brilliant in a subject does, by no means, translate to being a good ... amount of knowledge on the subject they need to have in order to field your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  too busy trying not to drink too much chlorine. Ultimately, on a purely ... Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera ... , then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Advice From The Elderly My last blog entry, at least from this chapter.

  

  Tuesday night, when I needed a friend the most. She introduced me to the boy ... happened to go into a field that my parents are very well acquainted with ... to get us where we need to go, and I quickly learned at MIT, a few

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  "Spoonsassins", in which one is given a spoon and a victim and told to "kill ... -week, hour-and-a-half sessions into something I eagerly look forward to. We ... his parents, to highlight the isolation one feels in returning to a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... professional movers got to work. Prohibition style, I met a colleague with ... marketing materials, and even a mysterious [annotation note="Does anyone have

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  study, thanks to barely needing to lift a finger in high school. It can be ... completely different playing field, and to suddenly need to completely revamp ... yourself a party trick. Understand what you need to make you mentally happy

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  And the Whistle Blows soccer post-season & my last competitive soccer game

  

  from 5 to 7 pm is spent out on a turf field. Nearly every Wednesday is a ... ’t get much better than a conference championship :)  [caption id ... became a conscious idea in my mind. It is almost absurd to think that the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 21, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  set up. Between Hunts, we need a place to store all the first-aid kits ... and make a final decision. How does any of this apply to Mystery Hunt ... what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Software had a lot of work to do. “Hey Erin, does Software need more people ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert ... teammates to make a presentation, look-alike model, and two working models

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  reason why a living space needs to have a culture associated with it. And ... in this crazy place does. Side note: this also led to a lot of ... EC alumni from this period are very much around, and have done a lot to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  demonstrate strong potential to leave a meaningful impact within the fields of ... Being able to experience new things is such a fundamental part of ... apply to a school like MIT. As Petey wonderfully notes in his infamous

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  considered using a fire idiom in the title of this post, but decided to go with ... tends to have a shorter timeline (still ~6 months from submission to ... is given to the author who leads the project and does most of the work

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D ... video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... , making sure to state that Riri was a resident of Simmons dormitory. Erick

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017