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• 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 ... weeks, I was kind of on top of things. I slept at a reasonable time. I ... with the number of activities happening at all times). I was attempting

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  stretched infinitely downward. He was bent over it, staring at the face of ... at the beginning of his time, trembling so hard the part of him that ... at the speed of helicopter blades to absolutely nothing at all

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... . She's been doing interviews for faculty positions at all kinds of places ... handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  of my life at this place. I LOVE IT. So why would anyone want to come ... reason to say so. If I think about my daily set of activities at MIT, I ... or can you actually do it here at 18 years of age? I return to a

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  use, at a fraction of the cost of purchased charcoal. Good work ... . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars ... here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... , and I love using big data to look at the "big picture". Because of this ... opportunity! Everyone should come to the premiere of Season 2 on November 4, at

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  hit me in the face. Not a light caress, not a brief reminder of the ... , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT? (If there is any at all.) There's no specific upper-bound, but MIT doesn

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  opposite side of campus. At Building W97, the Theater Arts building, I took ... whole at MIT). I focus more on the struggle of drawing, a selection of my ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Finals™ How to survive AND thrive this finals season?!

  

  notes, and then if I'm still stuck, then I look at beginning of the ... ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/the-final-stretch/'>Junior fall</a> and I sure made the most of the extra week."]5th semester ... ™: Survive and Thrive. ...and practice what I preach of course for my two

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 18, 2018
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  of very recently, I'm an incoming Ph.D. student at MIT CSAIL where I plan to do research at the intersection of Robotics and AI. You and I ... found out that a long-lost childhood friend of mine was now a student at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  lot. i helped design an airplane in 16.82, one of the capstone options for the aero/astro degree. here is a part of that airplane (i worked on ... i contributed to in my urop at the center for civic media:  

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  near Columbus) Degrees: Biology (Course 7) and Brain and Cognitive ... Sciences PhD program at Harvard Favorite class you took at MIT: 7.31 (Current ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  complaining about the outrageously cold weather, but a quick glance at status of my hometown - 5 degrees Fahrenheit with 6 inches of snow - puts the relatively tropical Boston winter at the top of this year’s list of things to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  of the Rubins Lab at MIT. Her lab hosts a number of undergraduate UROP ... number of MIT grads in space at one time, though -- last November, 4 MIT alums were in space at the same time: They are 4 of 34 MIT alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  the person you are now oversharing on the internet

  

  vulnerable and affectionate, loving and open, bold and daring.  At the end of ... very isolated at school. It was there for me and grounded me in some of ... . Growth Speaking of lingering trauma at the places that used to mean the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  all of the courses at MIT are numbered, but where do we get off throwing ... count towards your degree in any of a number of majors. Courses designated ... and dread. 2.009 is sort of the be-all and end-all of a Course 2 degree

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  one thing that strikes me is that there are a lot of MIT applicants who like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... got to knock off a task that is surprisingly easy to finish at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... Chancellor at the University of Cambridge is the Duke of Edinburgh. I recently

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011