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  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Engineering), so I converted one of my desks into a lab bench: When I took ... into getting electronics equipment of my own. In the very back of this ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  the true identity of a Naruto character, printed into a booklet and its ... into visual symbolism and angst. We made the structure of this with ... normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  essays are not unique enough. You’ve put in years of hard work to get into ... moment that feels like it will define the rest of your life. You’ve got one year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... own adventure, and there are an infinity of options to choose from ... ’re smaller quests you can complete alongside the main quest (which is, of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always sort of fascinating when something you’ve been taking for granted turns ... that goes into making a mascot! For one: there’s a process behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... has grown into a gem that features the best guest speakers in the field

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  . Whatever. It ain't the same. For those of you who don't remember me: hi! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... , took all of the pictures of all of the things, and own so many variations

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of weeks: the end of our first 8-week ICE course. ICE, or Integrated ... -nighters, the windowless basement computer lab, the return of 10.301 (fluid

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better ... investigate where your frame of reference lies. No, put away the calculators and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW :) Second: I remember when it came time for me to ... (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  .02, ironically the class that I was most confident of going into the semester. (MIT ... one of their summer interns. I'm really learning a lot (including more ... language to know in the States, due to the amount of Cantonese immigrants

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 ... , polishing the brass and oiling the cherry, with the hope of having the camera

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short ... . Given a chance, students often will combine two or more of these hobbies

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly, though, I think they complain about junior lab. It's best to come into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Hello from Palo Alto My California not-so-vacation.

  

  . I leave Boston at 8 AM Eastern. I arrive at SFO, run into several of ... I'm not going to lie, I'm pretty sick of grad school interviews. I've been extremely lucky to interview at all of the top five programs in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  pressures of class and work and what recreational activities does MIT offer to ... get day by day with the pressures of class and work by really trying to ... spend some of my free time trying to get ahead in classes, etc. I try to

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  of my reality and 'y' was how I was feeling. 'x' got turned into 'y' by ... into a relatively short and sequential summary of a character’s formation ... with a group of friends and acquaintance from MIT instead of moving back

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020