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  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  , so naturally, the MIT.nano staff want students to get excited about it too. To that end, undergraduates like me get to take classes where we work in the cleanroom to design and fabricate our own nanotechnology

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  to get ahead on coursework--but the flesh is so, so weak. My family rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a ... yourself wondering: How did THAT get there? Four score and zero years ago ... , who mentioned it in an email to me: I saw the car after it had been

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  regularly to ask what the secret is to getting in. My answer hasn't changed ... celebration. The invitation is a complete honor. It's great to be back in my old ... push boundaries, to improve the world. There isn't a day that goes by in

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  how to cook! Or it might be more accurate to say I learned how to learn how to cook. It turns out that cooking, unlike baking (where I had far ... ) approximately how to deal with different classes of foodstuff and b) how to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  “Isn’t it crazy how we’re all a part of this?” my friend says to me ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed ... boathouse to grab a sailboat (approximately a 5 minute walk in what felt like

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  off the TINIEST sliver at a time, in order to drag out the eating ... interests you - FOR A LIVING! You get to make connections with renowned ... that they want to go to graduate school in X, or have been doing a UROP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  interested in joining a sorority or are just curious, I encourage you to read ... start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  that i didn't know how to understand, so i gesture towards them in ... 'm running errands in california, like going to the bank and getting my mom ... record of how things are right now, to those at mit who care about making

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  notably in learning how to think about problems from my peers, approaching ... -traditional” route (for example, opting to put their education on pause to compete in the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  made me admissible to MIT — I started getting things wrong in the ... try to snag the one solo seat, all the way in the back and to the left ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . Let me explain. Malingap [annotation note="in which frats hold events to ... exhaustion you get when you spend a whole day bouncing from class to class ... to meet with my friends, or I’m playing board games in the lounge, or I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to ... desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... at MIT, and in the years since I graduated, I've continued to collect

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -height octagonal prism that is soon to be a waterfall of wooden blocks. Meanwhile in ... .” Behind the caution tape two people are having a heart-to-heart in the dip ... convert’s hair. I get to ride the Big Flipper at Next House and sharpie my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  for four hours to get to my father’s village in the countryside, and ... doodled in my journal everyday, and when I came back to our second grade ... in Kaffa. Yet, I never was able to tie it all together. But that was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the ... they’re rocks on a riverbed. The memory of my dad teaching me how to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  students with people living with disabilities to solve a problem in the home ... 'd never been to the space before, but I was impressed by how funky the space ... ) and also amazing. I teared up a little when I got to see him in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here ... as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... email explaining how my body wasn't listening when I told it we had to

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... me getting into MIT and why it meant so much to me. Enjoy!!!! Finally ... had long stopped feeling hunger, but the void in my stomach seemed to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016