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  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at ... ;-- this at least I am proud of. 2. Eat N2 ice cream - you are not allowed ... President Hockfield - as a matter of fact, I did this my very first week at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... the front-end of our app to present at the end. The program is split ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  -001. Anyway, let me set the scene: one day in the summer of 2020—at the height ... authorized campus access at an unmarked service door at the basement level of ... office unsupervised. At the bottom of an old metal filing cabinet, I found

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... small deviation from 90 degrees at the corner leads to wildly inaccurate ... into the side of the stringers at the correct height and angle so that

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  : An annotated timeline of everything he's ever made at MIT! You can see more of everything Charles has made at his website, http ... Copenhagen Suborbitals, a group of amateurs trying to launch themselves into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  engineering degrees). 2) I've never built anything at MIT (most engineering ... something wrong if you buy all of your textbooks at the MIT Coop. One or two ... to deal with the deluge of students seeking help at the final hour :P

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of ... . If you find yourself to be the same person at the end of college as you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... 2pm. You might be wondering at the moral of this story. Is it grades ... There are going to be a lot of people eager to give you advice on how

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  ending--it's the beginning of a path you might not have meant to take at ... winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... losses of Matthew Nehring and Christina Tournant. And for you, dear

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Daily Globe article, the President of the Latin-American Club at MIT ... Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... tuition award! Many of the international students at the time struggled

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  their graduate degrees here. Plenty of amazing thinkers never set foot at ... one of the most difficult things I’ve experienced, and at least giving myself a chance at grad school was bizarrely a part of my grieving process

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  2, English House. Units of measure were alive and well within the culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this ... right after we “finished” it at the end of January, but then the rush of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to ... like magic, staring at this alien device, this thing of the movies. With ... house and listened in on upperclassmen, who at the time had the aura of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer ... of my first year at Wellesley, COVID, and feeling just a little out of ... Program at the University of Auckland halfway across the world in New

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  D) Administrator at Duke VP of technical services company (formerly in the Air ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  Roll carts around campus. Marvel at the wonder that is the wheel ... people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself. Take pictures of yourself wearing silly hats. Take pictures of your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... the two of us and the fact that I'm still looking at the Mc ... possible moment (writing headlines and looking at every other piece of

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... darkest hell weeks at MIT. In lieu of resummarizing the endless cycle of ... MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011