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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is ... next semester never started, would I ever get up off the couch? I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I ... most known for its dining hall, for better or for worse[/caption] Right ... that your camera frame rate is not lined up with your computer screen

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  creations at my desk this summer. On Monday, I put all these pieces up for ... semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... . Luckily, MIT was the perfect place for that. Not only is there a class about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  grappling more and more with the notion of leaving. so much is up in the air ... exciting and terrifying since I'll be so far from everyone I know. for most ... final projects, or cram for finals in classes I haven't attended in weeks

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off ... hearing about it. regardless, everyone admires you for being super ... the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  -like aloofness. One day, I decided to test their reputation for myself. “Hey there ... away for a moment, thinking it would surely take them at least a few ... to learn from them and see what else they had up their sleeves. It took

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  labs where you make spectrometers, quantum dots, leds, and sensors. for ... taking up more land area by the way, if you’re curious what the single most mind-blowing moment from the course was, for me it was when we drew

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  need for students to understand both the science and engineering of ... -9 would be ✨perfect✨ for what I wanted. When my student advisor suggested ... science, so I registered for it as my [annotation note="Humanities, Arts

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  ’s family home in New Jersey. It was just the two of us. We’d been dating for ... was going to last for, and the economy was steadily nosediving, and I ... good, because back in high school, I had tutored kids for $15/hour and I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  gratification isn't the single thing to strive for, but it sure is exciting. I ... [/annotation], where I have to debug every program and circuit I make for two ... throughout the class where I forced myself up three flights of stairs to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  my grades are good, and last week I fell In love for the first time.” “But I am not cool.”     “I am not cool. Not enough for ... , did the best that I can  I moved up to Maine until I couldn’t stand it

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  .mit.edu. We're coming up to launch on both sites and so I wanted to take this ... out. Based on these findings and priors, our goals for this redesign include: making it really easy to find what you are looking for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  year? Hm. Academically, it was rough, for sure. I'll get more into it in ... Everbridge to work for them in the fall as a part-time software engineering ... experience in industry. But I still had nothing going for me over the summer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  this situation amusing and are making this post "just for the title ... Katherine C. '19 got us for our birthday! Pay close attention to the bottom ... recommend that you do, for no other reason than to understand why both Tina

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these past semesters have been quite a transformative experience for me; (maybe ... am I looking for? What/who would make me happy? What do I want in a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All ... do this for two reasons: One, I want to show you that, despite our ... day that I'm still discovering new things about MIT, even coming up on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can ... ’d be a perfect fit for MIT and lots of other build-y culture nerd schools ... people’s electronics around Addis Ababa. Here’s a speaker he made for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  -time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for ... requirements for my major, I decided that this fall semester was the perfect time ... take This summer, I scoured Harvard’s course catalog, looking for a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  well-documented code. We wrapped up the first class with the "Software ... "Codesign Studio" for short. It's a common perception that engineering and ... as any to remind everyone that MIT's ranked top three in the world for

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  to pick yourself up and redraw your life's trajectory for the next ... compiling a list of distractions for the final stretch. Distractions are great ... 100% sure this is the right school for you but you have external

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015