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  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  engineering and is the associate director of the LMP. To analyze these systems ... returning from the trip, she and a group of three other students decided to ... To manufacture the silicon chips that run your computer, silicon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  from the city center. It's about 45 minutes to walk there. It is an ... . They are the people that started CME and have been funding it for the ... England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  ) minutes and then go to bed. But if I start a book, that book is getting finished, that night. Partly, this is because I'm lucky enough to be a really ... that, it truly is a book about what it means to be alive and human

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  it out first to get the rough shape and dimensions down and also have a ... . Scribbling stuff down is a part of how I process, and really useful to me for ... , and the only problem I’ve encountered is that the tip is fairly fragile

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... that the most important thing for a fourth grader to do, is to be a ... that the best way to raise a scientist is to stay out of the way. Kids

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  to the 10.28 end-of-term dinner at Royal East... and if there's ever a ... . The concert featured professional soloists, and it's always a joy to ... duty to watch one hour of television a week and it's probably the best

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  behind the couch. It is comfortable and very dusty. I like that. When I go ... , but the rest has changed, uh, quite a bit since I wrote it. I'd say that ... 's Degree, and become a teacher. I'll go to Penn State. I hope to have an "A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  a wee bit very overprotective. The program satisfied her need to have me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... Earth is blue, and there's nothing I can do." When I was seventeen

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  the topics that seemed to be the easiest to write about was a recap of ... .[/annotation] All and all, the fall semester had its ups and downs. I wanted to write ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  doing the work it is supposed to do. Good luck, and happy writing! ... (maybe the most underappreciated thing a good college applicant can do is ... , but this year, we've kept them the same as last year, to wit: We know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  life here. this is a lot of words to say that i've been neglecting my ... gestured at the tunnels that connect main group. now 2 and a half years here ... class i'm not sure how to phrase this in a way that doesn't come off as

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  and informed us that there was a place in the woods nearby called the ... you can sit and watch the stars.  Five of us went to follow him on a ... . It was supposed to be a nice two hour hike, and we figured that we

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  over to the other rooms), and then gone home and slept for a few hours ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are ... think you have an answer to a puzzle, you fill out a little form on the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  "]on their own time.[/annotation] i went to the museum with a classmate and had such a good time! to get there, we had to take the T and then the ... ,[/annotation] so we took a picture by the camp fire and sent it to our professor, who

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  the way, I probably have a dozen blog entries that I've planned and ... found each other online and chatted a little before getting to MIT. By the ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  farmshowgoers think that THE SUPREME GRAND CHAMPION is the coolest thing there ... spare pictures from last month that I had meant to blog and assembled them ... . Before your mind even goes there, Lauren is NOT EVEN a political science

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and ... strong and I had to unzip my fall coat. The trees have finally changed for real, and I found myself stopping to take pictures so much that by the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  that when you come to MIT you'll be moving to a different area code and ... already now is definitely the time to get a new one on Amazon.com if your ... , the LG VX7000 and the Samsung A670 seem to get the best customer reviews

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  pretty much anything that you and your thesis advisor (who is usually a ... and looking for trends in their mineralogy that could lead to a better ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  's a terrible metric for uselessness.) But the same is true, to varying ... produce a better output, compared to the average person working in that ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011