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  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . They want you to apply your knowledge to problems that take hours and several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed ... of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the ... freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  of MIT deter you from applying to MIT. We have this thing called ... it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  nitrogen ice cream at Random Hall. Now, I'm going to highlight some of the ... sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007 ... years of female college juniors with leadership, community involvement

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  Tetazoa, hall funds could be used to cover the cost of the pillow + cover ... six months, I would have four dollars. For a net decrease of ... of making money. Besides, I don’t know of any such program that gives

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  At some point, when we got kicked out last March, there were a lot of ... that some of them are so very final. Earlier this year, a friend of mine ... planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  Sox Hall-of-Famers (including Ted Williams before he got cryonically ... something along the lines of, "Oh, you know. Gonna roam around Boston :)" as ... , Alchemist, Simmons Hall, Stata Center[/caption] I get this urge to keep every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  "too busy" to spend time in the dining hall. I made the mistake of ... My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this ... pressures that we put on ourselves. Each of us here has high expectations for

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  tremendous excitement about our ignorance, the wonderful potential of ignorance ... root of experiment. It is processed ignorance, carefully constructed ignorance, and apply it to the situations. I think kids interested in science

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  More than anything, I'd say that MIT offers a merciless crash course in time management.  You've got tons of things to do, as well as even ... time for anything. Fortunately, there's two periods in which most of your

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  living abroad, and I the odds of getting accepted applying as an ... get a written form of that lecture by Prof. Franc Wilczec, it seems so ... an audible file." I don't know of a transcript of his talk, but there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  of the dining halls are closed because so many people are away from MIT ... little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... second is something that spun out of a series of conversations between

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  rows of the lecture hall were already filled by the time I arrived 45 ... : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and presenters to the MIT community in the large lecture hall 26-100. We show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  about me, in general. I live on 5th East, my wonderful hall in the dorm of ... Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  a university full of former valedictorians, all I can hope for is to ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023