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• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  (RA). I've had a number of deferred students write in with questions so ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is ... need to; I would only consider this if you were planning to do so during

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to ... fix it (whereas if you were testing in Real Space, you would lose your ... circuit theory and printed circuit boards in general. I've discovered that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  disabilities services to talk about how I can get around and get caught up in my ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... was in a tremendous amount of pain. So I got the boot. And I healed

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the ... first classes, turning in my first p-set, the clubs I've become part of ... since I have penchant for the color red anyway (maybe gold would have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  moment I got the e-mail, I put it in my Google calendar because the ... was very wholesome. I thought it would be like some rampant, chaotic ... come in and get clothes for absolutely free. From formal wear to scarves

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  textbook? Watch videos? Take a course? Let me share with you how I started ... school - I learned how to purchase a domain name and hosting space. I set ... chapters before I got interested in doing other things."] sophomore

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  needed decisions: how answers would be called in, the hint system, and the ... know how every puzzle in this hunt works. Throughout the year, I ... that I'd imagine different people are interested in. In the end, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... impressive) bearing my name. I frequently exploit this factoid to arouse ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... issues, but that we would land in 7-8 minutes. He didn't actually tell us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  Rachel, who I lived with in Simmons during freshman year, are in the ROTC ... after learning about it from my friends, I thought it would have been a ... lowest officer rank, instead of enlisting--in other words, you would be in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post ... .e. to do what I'm doing [annotation note="So how am I able to write this ... sure how that works, but I'm just grateful it's working."]right now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2007: I Got Served, and It Felt Grrreat!! By: Seleeke, '11

  

  , it's the only way to fly. I don't care how you take it, but my CPW ... would at how organized and choreographed their routines were. The ... Chinatown (and I live in Minneapolis, the state's epicenter), so I HAD to make

  • by Bryan
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... my satisfaction, I headed by the Chemistry Education Office to hand in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  . Oblivious of what this would result in, I decided to work for the rest of the ... in first place are dashed as I find that it would take much more to ... sponsor me). I’d used the app in the past to learn Italian and to refresh my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  rushed coffee break in the middle of the 10am-4pm seminar block. I have ... —who knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them ... on the math department carpet—in my defense, how could you pay

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  [/annotation] how much writing I’ve done in just the past month for classes ... yesterday. In this paper, I analyzed how general relativity progress was both ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  . Yeah... But I was lucky and only had 5 exams since I came in during the ... ... who would stay in the library until midnight and be back in the library ... did I realize... In true Cambridge fashion, projects have turned out

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  . KN6OQK” how I got here I picked up ham radio as a hobby during ... bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... , radios fell out of fashion. tetazoo I thought the ham population would be

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... school on Friday Now, here's what I have to do in the three days I'm home ... 's a quiz on Wednesday that I really would like to do well on something

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

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  created to measure. Maybe I’m just a nerd who has taken a lot of tests in ... was going to take me on, so there would be no surprises, and I would ... gotten into a (minor) accident by the ripe age of 19. In a way, I was

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018