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  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  edition of HowToGAMIT. I ended up volunteering to be HowToGAMIT's treasurer ... Almost every time I return home from MIT, I find myself mentally translating certain MIT concepts or words or course numbers when I'm talking to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  statement on the role of diversity in MIT’s educational mission, I would like ... [annotation note='In that role, I saw how both our alumni and our applicants ... importance of diversity in STEM education and workforce development, I would

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  get creative with scaling i guess, but that would change their position ... any part of it! I'm also a big fan because of how many vegetables I can ... . Now, I know that sounds confusing, but think of a cube. What is the best

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Things Wot I Did Whilst Studying at MIT A tale told in pictures (and someone else's words).

  

  impossible to describe how quickly they pass. ...I'd say it's worked ... I've been looking at Ben's "50 Things" post recently, since classes are done, my grades are in, I've nothing to do but work 40 hours a week

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  , he vanished in an instant. It would be another year until I saw him ... –1973 application cycle, I thought it would be appropriate to share it with you all ... list While today I would tell applicants “There’s no need to apply early

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the ... that we had afterward, was what would eventually turn into the video you ... made an excellent blog post about it at the time. (I, personally, was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out ... would sink in and make my skin crawl. I had had enough panic attacks by ... on which I would allow myself to be captivated by the skyscrapers I

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  Hey guys! I know it's been a little while since I have blogged. The ... lives of MIT students. BUT, right now even though I have both pictures and ... student (they tend to be about how neat trees look right after rain in the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  applicant. I would hope that premise, once so plainly stated, is self ... There's something I've been mulling over in my head for a long time ... and bad) that I've had with people on CollegeConfidential and elsewhere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  , which is this: How do I get in to MIT? And here is what I tell them ... and hawk their school. I recently returned from my travel, which took ... in between over the course of a few days. I visited big high schools

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I finally figured out what I wanted to say. I think that's how this semester is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  ). Here is how I went about obtaining my data: I deleted spam and emptied ... ’t let me download such a large file, and I couldn’t figure out if or how I ... content of the mailing list (I’ve never been on it), but because of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  -yogurt-more-endearingly-“Froyo”. I can’t count how many “Ordering Indian in 10! Come to Room # if you ... bomb! How come I've never used Doodle or Google Docs before coming to ... CPW, I remember hearing about how Burton-Conner has no heating. And when

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  would call low-maintenance, mmkay. 8:40 AM. I consider leaving, then check ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... room for a while. Usually I would go chat with the lab techs, but almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  to save that part before I closed out), but I’ve learned how to right ... prototypes out of foam, then later 3D printed them. I’ve learned how to ... .0001[/annotation] to code that. How many hours is this battery going to last us? I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• 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 ... healthy, I can start figuring out how to help myself achieve it every night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  explain to you how much it was not. I could tell you that I enjoyed my ... could never see yourself doing how they got where they got today. Like I ... knows exactly how to get what they want in life and I'll convert, but to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  Hey! I’m back this term to finish my undergrad degree. I realize that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am. Which I guess makes us even, because I don’t know most of you either. But

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  and I can only barely imagine what this excitement and feeling must feel ... . I get it. I know it. I was there. I thought I'd make something to ... , studying. That's probably how you already spent these past four years of high

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021