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  Application dreaming

  

  , this is a paraphrase):   "MIT is not a good place to be if you don't like math and science. But MIT is also not a good place to be if you only ... majoring in BME. I am a published poet in my country. Should I send my book

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  , no matter where you are going. This is a video for pre-frosh in general, not just for MIT. College is a weird place, so I hope you can gain some ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  -value level of what you're about to learn is on a par with the Tooth Fairy not ... into them with a door, you'll know you can probably, maybe still pull off ... 'm really sorry. Errrrkk. I'm going to.. uh, yeah. Sorry. You actually can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  to the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried because we had an hour to ... know it as "the cemetery where Jim Morrison is buried." Granted that Jim ... is "Don't stress out too much about numbers; you're not going to go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  the work of not working this is going to be a challenging semester ... not so good at and that i can usually get away with neglecting. this is ... 'm doing so i can get back to the place where i approach the days of my life

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things Charles Has Made fare thee well, rocket powered roller skates

  

  make these really awesome mostly dangerous things. There are, as you ... homemade explosives / launchers / fire / etc. I'm sure there are a bunch of ... there is someone at MIT who falls into that mold, it's probably Charles

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  -life balance, creativity, and how different it is to work than to be a student ... , here it is in all its glory – a pen plotter, drawing machine, robot, whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  groups outside of Cruesdays where you can grow with a group of people. The ... you can really go to any group you want. It’s a great way to get ... 👀), and you can get involved through: [email protected] Cru is also

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  , but it's always a nuisance. You can go for weeks, months, years of your ... people, and a lot of them—there are parts of the world, and a lot of them—where ... languages have a rich vocabulary for rain. The lightest is probably ambon, a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... write up his experience as a project lead this year, giving you all a peek ... specifically buy longer pieces. The side length of each rectangular fort unit is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  itself was nice. There were a lot of people graduating though, and I ... so that we see an image of the MIT skyline. This is so that we can look ... (through the MEng/VI-A programs). Since I am going to around for another

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  at MIT. Now obviously "preparation" is in some sense a range. You can ... institution. College is a place where you meet all sorts of people from all ... way of thinking assumes that there is a dichotomy between diversity and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  This blog is about my hometown, which I filmed a little bit of last ... you have before. [embed]http://youtu.be/JJMYZUh1PRQ[/embed] A week ago ... thousands of people on a highly visible platform, but I think blogging is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  , either you're accepted or you're not. There is no grey area... so they ... because you had an audition, how your smile can fill a room, how you simply ... decision is a committee decision. Of my many favorites this year, there were

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  that in Walker Memorial (a building where we all take our exams) there is ... can repeatedly land on a perch, the way birds do, and he is fascinated ... construct a paper airplane that he can throw from MIT and have it land

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  decide you want to live there, can you pick that dorm for the second ... , so there's nobody to talk with. 1:45 PM. The autoclave is finally done ... summer is a bunch of contaminated plates. Sidenote for dorky story

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  , and -- if you’re in a field like mine -- you can do your work from ... life, because a long baseline helps a person know you well, and they can ... people know who you are. There are a lot of people who would be happy to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  laundry, and this helps you get back to a place where you can work on ... assignment. There was a point where I really didn’t know how to fix what was ... had to refer a lot to the private tumblr blog I kept where I vented

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  writes all over everyone else. There is a party every year which somehow ... people don't always realize is that there are also dorms whose mascot is a ... capable of doing a problem set in 45 minutes. Whoa there! I'm not that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005