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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to ... for you, I've been taking photos for my lab reports in 2.671. This ... the class are required to create a website about it- you can check out

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  thinking recently about how I love Tucson but I may never live here again ... survival as living things in the desert only can. Let the tattoo remind me of ... in the coming month, so I felt suddenly inspired to get one now. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  answered, but how do we send in our replies to get it in by May 1? Can we fax ... your Part 1 early, but it need not be in summer. Yali wrote, "I'm still in the college choosing and I am thinking if we can set up sth like a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  was turning in a p-set for 5.111...or 5.12, I can't remember at this ... The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... was also one of the more surreal mornings I've ever had in recent memory

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  getting into. I had a few ideas about how I thought college would go—in some ... I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year ... like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  . How I felt in those moments. How I talked myself out of it. Etc. Etc ... that well in 6.145. Sure, I got an A, but how much of that did I really ... I can continue to learn more. In addition to that, I've accepted a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn ... with color. I'm not a great photographer, but I hope some of the below

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  in mind. It was magical. It’s not that I don’t enjoy the technical classes. I do, but in moderation. In fact, I’m a huge fan of my one ... about having my technical focus being on this one class is that I can

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  Friday, Nov. 24.” I can’t believe I missed an opportunity to build ... ://www.ebaumsworld.com/tags/arthur-ganson/. His website has a lot of great pictures as well. I’d encourage all of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  paragraphs in this Economist interview: “I don’t want or need to disrupt ... Minerva has higher standards then Harvard, then how is a student who can ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  ="ironically, also something that I can't know for sure until I spend some time in grad ... interview process, but I can't help but think they inform their decision in a ... undergrad app stress and [annotation note="I know how you guys are

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  might also know, as I gave away some spoilers. Brought to you just in ... process was Not Fun. I can certainly agree with that when looking at the ... -- just the other day, I was talking with Matt in the admissions office

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  wall painting! Whenever I can, I try to visit my sister in suburban ... D. '21, our hallmates, and I all went to Tasty Burger in Harvard ... later. In January, I fulfilled my blogger-career-long dream of taking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program ... in exchange for some research or teaching activities. Last week, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  installing some sort of video conferencing system. I can hardly believe how ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... , and Rocco try to figure out how to prepare their chicken tetrazzini--I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  you can see the number of posts and how many comments there are, though ... main page. It reads HTML as well so a lot of things can be put in there ... One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  six hours left and a lot can happen in six hours, but I'm in a better ... out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got ... graph of 1/x in quadrant 1. For no good reason, either--I was doing fine

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  , if I would have been better off someplace else. In classes, I ... how hard I tried. Although for many people, MIT convinces them that ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a ... , and finally died at Gallipoli in World War I. Professor Sadoway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for ... to do it again, I would do 5.111 in the fall and 7.013 in the spring ... perhaps no more than 70 students in the class. Contrary to what I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008