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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  My dorm, the 117-year-old Random Hall, is identical to the older ... , and the view of the river. There’s romance in losing sleep and body heat ... photographing campus and the Charles River to show you what I see. All of these

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  the way we are, and to convince ourselves and everyone that—a nutria or ... fluffs up its breast with its paws, and at the same time a paler rat ... . That we exist and it could not be but so. But really it is very close to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual ... said that this is to encourage students to attend classes and get a feel ... 'd like to point out that there's also a review for The Matrix in this issue

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Distance is definitely a thing, and even Harvard isn't that close to MIT ... , Classes I Won't Be Able to Take and Exploring Classes. My two cents is that ... that sound interesting. The other way to find interesting classes is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  problem is that people like pictures. And people like to know about the ... green donut-thing with red wire? That's a huge inductor. And then the ... conductivity of the plasma column in the tube. So a higher voltage is needed to

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

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  whether to create the website in Perl or Python. There's a bit of discussion ... these things, and that's okay. Some people won't have the resources to do ... something is the right thing to do, and this is one of them. And if you make

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  of the people. And this very long never-ending day is a testimony to that. There was a sense of joy because the MIT community had really come ... ’d like to take some time to shed a different light on the situation. That

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  as a project was due to be turned in that day, as well as the lab work ... wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab ... such temptation. The thing is, as you might infer from the awards and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  that day was rain showers, and I didn’t want to run in the rain! We ... were on, crossed the tracks, and then got onto a trolley headed back to ... minutes away. Alan: And then, it switched to a message that still haunts me

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  implying here that the Church is an enemy to human progress and tries to ... , and it turns out that the book was written as a screenplay for the movie ... say, I enjoyed the film marginally better. The book is a bit dry, and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ShuttleTrack and decide that I would get to work faster if I wait for the ... , so there's nobody to talk with. 1:45 PM. The autoclave is finally done ... decide you want to live there, can you pick that dorm for the second

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

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  ?" Filter This is a filter that scrapes through the cloud and tries to sort ... mentors and coaches to write referrals for interns so that they can skip the ... else around me is, and that maybe I'm studying the wrong thing. He loves

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  rendezvous while you're there. Enter a competition and win money to change the ... ever taken at MIT (the second lowest comes in at 54, which is four and a ... , fantasizing about a place far away known as MIT, and the kind of things that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  ? The application volume is such that there is more capacity for students ... same school, unless there is a recruited athlete, legacy or some other ... ? Beyond that, having the opportunity to spend four years living and learning

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  more than that same grocery bill to fix. And to my surprise, I've put up ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... ?). But then when you pop up and think back to just a few months or weeks

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  . Tasty and healthy. There is a farmer’s market in Stata on Tuesdays that is ... ’ve found a group of people who love doing the same thing you love doing, and ... intersections, don’t be afraid to use crosswalks and be a pedestrian. That can

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My blogger bio over time what does it take to get to know someone?

  

  Floor Pi lounge is an adventure. We can take the T to Harvard, and buy ... could go to a party and dance until two in the morning. Or we could go on ... forget about all the homework I have to do, and for a moment, it'd feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... ;   In the back is the binder that I describe, and the open is binder

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students to the Institute, and each year they surprise and inspire me. The real magic of the transfer process is that no two transfer students follow the same path to MIT. Colored by the patina of life experience

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the Deferred I feel your pain.

  

  choreographed a dance of my own, and how it felt to grow up in New Zealand. My dad ... refreshing decisions.mit.edu fervently. And that's when I got deferred. There ... page and this paragraph: When we admit a class of students to MIT, it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 16, 2009