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

  

  : The weather was fine. CJ: Look, when we planned this, the forecast for ... motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... of this done for the London Underground, so I latched onto the idea

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  week before I update you on the last 5 months of my life. Right now, this ... I was back in the day, or my younger brother is right now, or like anyone I know was the week before their college applications were due, you

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  into a lump of a person, sitting at the kitchen table for hours at a time ... tissues, waited for the sniffles to subside, and said kindly, reassuring me ... went home for winter break and thought the depression would go away. It

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  written one on 2015, I did look back on those from the past few years: 2011 ... Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  ’s common in Nigeria for novels to be officially shown to the public in a ... with my dad in New York. He had traveled to the US for a program called ... wanting to create words and stories. So I imagine that for the both of us

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not finding the right answer: the problem, for Sam, and for many students like ... he'd recommended me for a customer support job in what would become the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  Class In January, I made the last minute decision to sign up for 6 ... the lab and assignments for the rest of session. Office hours were offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  about it, for obvious reasons. This idea made it to the second-to-last round, and the first of four major milestones in the class. For this ... for a group photo and moved short people to the front. "We need Concert

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Mountain Climbing Team i'M GrADduATingG WAOooOOOoo

  

  , fairly rugged mountain - together. …We are emphatically not looking for a batch of identical perfect climbers; we are looking for a richly varied ... : "Describe the world you come from; for example, your family, clubs, school

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 6, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  . And, of course, more South Park. I looked into importing the ... official DMC Cross Stitching Mentor. DMC is the organization/company that ... an AMAZING light for cross stitching. Comes right out of the ceiling

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... 't belabor the explanation here. A puzzlehunt isn't just about puzzles. For me ... heart for that. The community There's a notion, becoming stronger in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  Greek Perspectives on the Good Life, a required class for almost all ... , for example, the following hypothetical conversation: A: Why do you ... ends justify the means'"]end:[/annotation]something sought out for itself

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  decked out for the occasion. The flags all looked identical, and the ... baseball players ask for autographs from the people they're playing against ... speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  like for you. You might have gotten recently added to the Discord or ... means easy. The hard part is over (for now). A lot of adMITs will throw ... video format watch the video down below. this video does have subtitles

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Featured 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?!

  

  his final paper for STS.050 (The History of MIT), about the founding of ... administrators saw that the introduction of dormitories would allow for the ... effectively than before. The move to Cambridge allowed for the construction of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , but look into classes that aren't on this list too. The best way to ... want to have a plan for when you'll finish each part of the GIRs ... Biological Engineering. (Good references for checking are CourseRoad and the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  week. Just look for our table on the first floor of the student center ... MIT. Dorm Rush (n.) - See REX. Engineers (n.) - The proper nickname for ... Sail - official name of the steel sculpture by Alexander Calder south of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  the Research Obviously, this *should* be the first step. For me, my research is the UROP project that I've been working on for almost two years ... the angle I was working on for quite a while. I still have an entire

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  , and I'm extremely envious of the level of her self-discipline. As for my ... for most of their other dishes though...very meh. 34. Check out the New ... Tech - I wrote an opinion piece for them! :) 73. Learn the true meaning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  $6500 for the three months of 2.009. Most teams will use all of this ... -wearing rabbit. For the Technical Review, however, we're in decidedly worse ... , and the laser cut enclosure looks great, the sensors are glitching

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015