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  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... As you might have read in my last entry, I had a 6.046 (Design and ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  . Adelaide sits on the floor in the hallway to strap on her heels. Adelaide is ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... creates its own design specific to your class year. Then they reveal the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  your major's requirements. However, if you want to major in engineering ... Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... is tonight! Every year we blog about 2.009, a capstone course in ... webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Pics or it didn’t happen? It happened!

  

  in our stories. The contestants, from top to bottom, left to ... ; It was incredible to hear how 15 different MIT students interpreted the ... , "From Generation to Generation" // Bruno Faviero, "Vision" // Bruna Moscol

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  're definitely going to get an entry on it in the near future. 9. I mentioned the ... excursion to Garment District. Well, anyway, I remember that one is "get ... surprise to any of you that my first (and likely only) appearance in our

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... MIT, but I'd like to attend CW if possible. I heard we get to make

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual ... ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play ... know that Guide to Residences in the NBM? Check out our i3 video in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  's statistically improbable to win things that aren't in cereal boxes. Well, it ... adjective to describe the same adjective. That's how much it blew the mind ... week. It turns out that, due to the gnarly distortions in spacetime

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  : :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :) Mathura: scared samvaran, hahaha me: LOL, poor guy. i'm giggling in my room ... . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be alive in ten minutes? Mathura: probs not, hes in the line of happiness

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will transform me in ways that I never expected, expose me to people I never would ... lags and is measured in carrier pigeons per second ***let it be known to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a ... If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... , mentor, and (now) admissions liaison since 2002. Before I came to MIT, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s ... On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  new poem and write a short essay response, which we read aloud in a ... , and between 45 min and an hour to write the response, usually, in ... encyclopedic source of knowledge about the trials of Ancient Rome covered in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... in their own families. Together, the forty or so of us manage to laugh ... ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  wasn't the smartest person in the class -- it was great to have friends ... , informatics, and biology. In each country there's a selection process to try to ... , then a senior at Stuyvesant High School in New York City, scored 34 out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... : blogging for MIT admissions!) Even though I didn’t get, or even attempt to ... gone to MIT and gotten a job at the career fair! Also in attendance on

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  about how annoying it is to be sick. I like it at this Starbucks! It ... /bio/chem till my brain feels like it's dying. And then I go to lab and do things ... jazz, I've been picking up some info on how this particular Boylston St

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... instance, of my tendency to pick HASS classes based on what sounds ... absolutely no common sense about what classes to pick (and apparently due to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005