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  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  , there is a goal, the destination to your journey. There is no winning path ... and the high marks are well deserved, but there is more to being ... the best chance you got. Guideline #1: There is more to you than

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  "]boba[/annotation]. then it's back to the office, and i have a 1-on-1 with steven and he ... . everything seems to be great: i'm learning a lot from the internship, there ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular ... - really, it is all going to be okay. Whether the admissions decisions are ... unfair to leave you hanging like that - but in the long run, it's really

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  add that in the course of piecing this entry, I did laundry and found a ... intervals on the same day. I call it Dark Thursday. Learning at MIT is hard. Weekdays are a blur of work and socialization, with lines between the two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this, there is a wide variety of places around campus where you can get your ... keeping track at home). Pappalardo is home to a wide range of Course 2

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... longer than I was actually there (rip), but I felt like a stranger. the MIT people I see feel like the only evidence that I actually had a freshman

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... at Cambridge and the culture at MIT is that the former has a greater ... MIT, so I had a good idea what to expect from the people there, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  , there's not to fit through there, and it's a bit.....steep. The nice part ... thinking about the life decisions I've made to lead me there, I noticed a ... could to get a better look at was was so alluring a distraction in the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  projects that it could be a bit alienating to separate their names from the ... closer to the bottom of the list before looking at it a second time and ... . [annotation note="This is a thing that nerds who write are required to pretend

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT offer a foundation year?

  their foundation year is not considered the first year of university in the country where they study. ... MIT does not offer a foundation year program. Students currently
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  that there is also an option in the Report for students whose schools do ... your MyMIT tracking and you’re the one that needs to submit it. Even if ... . Next, there is a simple text box. This is the best place for any new

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... it will have to do. 12:30 AM – And that’s a wrap, folks. The hacking ... coincidental. Here is a bonus video that Katherine made, documenting our day and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  , and the bonus that I get to work with plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) as ... . The rows are the variating Arabidopsis lines, and each column is a ... endless memorization and quickly change the topic. But to me, Biology isn

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  the size of a tangerine. It’s nothing really that special—there were ... filled with essentials, we head out to begin tasting the fine wine that is ... ’s Taqueria at 8:00 that night, and in the beginning it seemed to be going well

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  . There were also a bunch of raffles with the chance to win gold rings, and ... . The next step is actually ordering the ring--and to do that, I've got to ... shoutout to that '25. Hope he finished his work and enjoyed the show. At

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post ... that my days are a constant stream of checkboxes on my To-Do list; i ... class and isn't as engaging as i expected, so lecture is just a 2-hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , and there was a cute Korean family that came to play with us, and they ... , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I ... sessions that I'll be going to over the next month, and then I get to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  to be a half-mile walk out of your room and across the Harvard Bridge ... or a 2-hour bus ride or a 6-hour plane ride to the nearest city! And ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  , and 21A.100 is required to concentrate (and let's all connect the dots ... being able to string a few sentences together)... and that my schedule is ... website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005