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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  Chevron, which is announcing a $10 million commitment to the Fab Foundation ... ). One of the most fascinating things I discovered in the course of writing ... manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  . Anything in the gap between the subject and the verb is less likely to have ... endings: the end is the most powerful part of a sentence, paragraph, or ... meaning in context you want it to have; use the thesaurus again if you have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can first-year students conduct research?

  Research at MIT aims to develop innovative solutions to the world’s most daunting challenges. From addressing the energy needs of tomorrow to ... the world. MIT offers research in every field you can imagine, and
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... comic strip Doonesbury. Basically, back in 2006, the author of the strip invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor ... since I could barely walk. So I waited for the pain-killers to set in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time and change

  

  national convention, which is conveniently also in Louisville this year, then taking the bus down even further south to visit my dad in Woodstock ... differently with people. Such is the nature of being in very different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  went from 8:30 to late in the evening, Work Week activities lasted all ... The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... , or Friday Afternoon Club. This is a study break event in the dorm ... 's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  'm totally going to sneak down when I'm at the lab on Friday morning. This is ... phenomenal cosmic bad luck!), my midterm weeks tend toward the crazy. This is ... want to check out the webcast of the ceremony celebrating the opening of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... to go to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas with them

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... completely agree that it should not be a competition to see who takes the most ... of the program is not to pile on pressure for the benefit of a high

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  down to the great exercise that is [annotation note="which involves a lot ... "]wake up at 7am,[/annotation]and head down into the cramped gym in the ... person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  competitive in the end). I tried to balance this stressful atmosphere by ... to clear out the obstacles in her path, I can't. As life has taught me ... .)[/annotation] I try to keep the passage in my mind from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  . Here is the email we sent out to everyone in Maseeh: ** Some naysayers ... smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a ... “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  lack of solutions, nor monitor the clock. In 5.112, I’d slide to the edge ... knowledge did. Most days, however, I strove to just get done with the agenda ... place in the world, and I was the only being at the time to see. (image

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  any means the most important part. As for what to do, one option would ... option would be to try the science SAT Subject Tests again in November (if ... wrote, "I sent in my affirmative reply on March 21st, and have yet to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  , participate in a week-long introduction to the Navy, and on August 28th I take ... world with the same eyes. Mine work just like yours do. My sun is yellow just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  months now. One thing I've noticed about this site in the past year is that most individual entries have a relatively short half-life - that is, the readership of each entry decays pretty rapidly. The ten most recent posts have

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done ... one of the top twenty finalists! Before I make my pitch I'd like to ... my deepest, darkest secrets onto the Internet for everybody to read

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  it now. I’m living in it. That glow is strongest around EC. It’s in the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three stories tall, which overlooked the REX events. It’s in the way we dress

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021