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  another day of fall when canvas went down and made me think about internet and people and the seasons

  

  clear skies, I decided to finally touch some grass for the first time in ... world in not-hyper-optimized ways and fail in ways that I am glad to ... how it ties everything together. This is a school that pushes you to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 25, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  potentially useful item we had in our shop at the Edgerton Center- no matter how ... event, we had to demonstrate and explain how our designs for Flux complied ... laps in one day or 143 laps in two consecutive days to qualify for the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for ... to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make ... mathematical models and quantitative data, and i'm looking forward to getting

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the ... , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again this month. How sweet is that? Anything Into Oil By Brad Lemley

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  November Questions Omnibus 1 As usual, Q & A.

  

  have had MAJOR syllabi changes(going from ICSE to CBSE in the middle of ... against me?" In regard to your first question: these things are an ... how it fails to work. The difficulty (and the value) of such an exercise

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of ... such a close scale before, so none of me knew how to react. My head was ... to sink to the ground too. In that moment, I felt nothing. There was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  UROP research symposium in January, so he could add that to my letter. I ... started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to ... choice, but since I hadn't had time to get my pants [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  accepted or not. But every time I get to thinking this way, EVERY single ... as a freshman in high school. She is me at the core. She is enough to ... are, what inspires you, what makes you tick. Once you get in touch with

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  is a LOT of work to be done. But how could this be! It's Christmas ... semester. Early in the school year, I kept getting emails about spending IAP ... experience in English. The bigger goal here then is to inspire an interest in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  you!), how to get around campus, and how to pick a living group (SO MUCH ... . (This could explain why the girl studying in the cubicle next to me looks ... --> no place to stand), not washing my dishes (although someone in my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  to learn how to read and engage younger children in reading. You can ... , before I get into anything too serious, I really want to give a huge thank you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units ... 't even sweat it. It never hurts to know how to do a chi-square test (or to ... was in your shoes, so please feel free to ask me questions about SATs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  have cool things to talk about. I'm sure you're all excited. In the ... these two yet. =) In any case, it's getting complicated. Here are the ... in some countries rather than in others; how political institutions

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... colleagues and I will go forth across this continent to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in the northeast: Massachusetts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  it's easy to let our dear old friend imposter syndrome kick in ... . Now, in fall of my senior year (gah that's still scary to write down ... —but getting to read the likes "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  trying to get it published. Before speaking with Boris, I had never ... the program, we spent two days presenting our research to a panel of judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  canned pineapple in JELL-O but not fresh pineapple. How tired do people get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  . Here in Part 2, I've analyzed the remaining four games, hoping to gain more ... select 5 integers in the range 1 to 50, inclusive. For each integer k you ... three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020