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• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... in machine shops. And there is so much more to learn, so many projects ... sounds fun. Most people only get to take one.   I read the blogs my

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

   recently got published online. the first is this research snippet on race in ... intervention. If the risks or promises are greater, the obligation is greater. In ... -god heroes, not to mention being some of the most simultaneously hardcore and

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

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective ... , the first assignment was also the most daunting. The prompt was to write ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  Caffeine is in the air my friends, pencils are writing, printers are spooling (unless you're the one I tried to print to in the Student Center....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  something like this off in the kitchen. My only suggestion is to add some ... thing to find in the tube is the penny that's hidden inside, and I am ... something in the lot, Teaching English to a class (and watching them sing "I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  and the Spiritual/Right Now section. The final exam is there to provide ... choose any topic or field to explore in the realm of computational ... in my final assignment, I've felt the need to study for a coming exam

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  , it's a good one! Living group is one of the most important factors to ... ! Your dorm is really one of the most important contributors to your MIT ... 's difficult if you want to eat in the dining halls every night - you'd probably

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I ... final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to ... in Boston, the real secret is that the best froyo comes from this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... internships to fill all of the time I would otherwise have been in school. This ... -negotiated one of them to start in the spring. By late June, I had finalized my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO DO ANY SUMMER PROGRAM TO GET INTO MIT, by the way. I ... and Politics the next summer) and really enjoyed it - so much so that I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network ... that uses it. One of the most interesting companies I've seen in this ... project. Just one problem. The deadline to register was in July. I didn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  like a tourist" guide is not to stand around like a moo cow in front of ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the Admissions Reception Center). This means that the room is in building 10, on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  was the most prestigious to which I had been accepted (and because Jon ... Guard was called in to put down drunken riots, I felt far outside the ... counted the days to graduation. Whereupon, in May 2009, I immediately

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  to help us bring in money from sponsors, and win the most prestigious ... . And embarrassing. One of the worst parts is when people who believe in ... this mistake infinitely many times in the past, continues to do so now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  ! Glad One and Sad One talking to each other is the best thing. "When it ... circle to a half circle to show he is annoyed. Randall the water blob was ... episode to write about it in more detail and we are noticing the ROUNDNESS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the ... Sudan].” This action is without precedent in the Institute’s ... to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur and purchase solar cookers

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... 's probably the easiest way to find a simple list of classes in a particular ... some of the other resources listed above. Talking to People In particular

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  longest I’ve spent listening to one audiobook is “The Source,” by James ... the same book twice in three months. Most importantly, I discovered ... ;1/3 of my music listening. It’s mostly to discover new songs

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and ... checking out the most beautiful girl in the lab (see below). ....just ... resulted in the 2006 Nobel Prize in Medicine. This is more commonly known

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  4000 K is hot enough to melt every element in the periodic table. Of ... friends in Course 3 have been able to answer. In the movie "Fantastic Four ... heating cycle in the first place. The other possibility is that the heating

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005