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  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  between the Big Apple and the Big Smoke (New York clearly wins in the ... Aviv's Ben-Gurion International Airport. It was just past six in the ... doing here? That was two years ago. In retrospect, that was just how I

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Favorite Classes at MIT! survey says...

  

  based on around 100 responses. In addition, I tried to rank the top 5 ... ) 12.400: Our Space Odyssey (1) 18.504: Seminar in Logic (1) 18 ... lot of the reasons mentioned the content of the class in different ways

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... eats any and all food, including the special food my mom buys for Dog 3 ... -verbal. Cat 1 will roll around in pollen if left outside, creating an allergen

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  (I started this post wayyyyy back in January. Ask any blogger who ... clearly have no idea how to properly manage my time anymore, I decided to ... getting back into bed to watch actors in their mid-twenties pretend to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  a very unified slide deck with a clear and coherent structure.  In ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... lousy idea isn’t always clear when you’re just verbally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... just leave them in the hallways to be taken. And we students do so, very ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all ... ordinary. Sometimes it's small, a chainsaw in a wooden case, sitting in a ... that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  that I'm actually registered in and b) he presents material in clear ... usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... is if I'd maybe dropped through a trapdoor in the ceiling onto his head

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Esse quam videri To be, rather than to seem

  

  As I find myself again, railing against something published in the ... difference in perspective relating to what applying to college is supposed to ... journalists appreciate. I have the luxury of being able to be a purist in this

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  clear any personal belongings out of my space in 3-001 before the ... work. This prompt sends a clear message that MIT is interested in ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural

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

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... :45am my advisor texted me saying I should come back in. The chair tried ... had to turn off his video etc -- ahh, PhD defenses in the Zoom era

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  admission exam and accepts the top scoring kid(s) from each town in our ... , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student did in high school, they tend to mean “what went on their application

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious ... freshman class website is often frustratingly vague on this topic. Fortunately, the actual requirements are outlined here. In order to qualify, you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... . Rooms with a view and living in Beantown I love the river. The majority of dorms are by the Charles River and in Baker, for example, 80% of rooms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  definitely in the clear for the programs I was looking at, 80th for verbal and writing was probably in the clear as well. I knew I was also capable of ... high enough. I knew my verbal and essay were definitely in the clear for

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  we should be majoring in. Currently, we are majoring in Course 21E, or ... major too; we are interested in the storytelling and writing classes offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  buildings on campus, and the classes which they will take in the coming four ... fitting in, about studying for classes, and about joining clubs. For those ... around campus and making friends and everything else in-between. Indeed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  --the things governments do, in exchange for creating infrastructure. Clearly, in ... lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... in Ethiopia in 2016. (You can get the full story in those two blog

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  On-Top-Of-It people in the World.   During the exchange ... .  Secure a room in student housing from the Housing Office.   ... the exchange coordinator buys into that argument.  Drop by the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  recruiting events. The latest one, held in early May of this year, was at Abide ... , they really did—wheeled in old-school arcade games, paid for limitless boba, etched the space in muted gold light. A woman in a crisp suit

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019