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  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  Backstroke of the West, a backtranslated version of Star Wars Episode III, run ... -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Four years ago, Melis '08 posted a list of the "101 Things To Do ... of Grace '11, since I have long since lost my own copy due to the chaos of the intervening years. (basically, the backstory is that at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and from the class notes open on the other half of the screen. Nothing sticks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time ... , sometimes at the cost of letting old skills atrophy. The second part of this

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... really excited about this, as it’s been a dream of mine for at least…the last twelve to fourteen months. Even at the start of my junior year of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  built just to the west. In February of 1931, the buildings would be ... dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ," the Faculty Houses. The dorm's name of '93 would last for

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  tale from last April.  Longtime readers of the blogs may know that I've come to understand the challenge of MIT through the lens of physical ... challenges of balancing growth and recovery, and the isomorphic relationship

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  engineering. But he's probably best known around campus for being the King of ... accidentally drove the lolriokart into an enormous bank of computers in front of ... fairly nostalgic on the eve of his graduation. So he made two more things

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

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

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... as brilliant as some of the professors are, we still get super excited ... expected that to be the most of my Obama-Visit-Experience. Word on the street

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... students with a full year of credits (96 units) at the end of first-year fall

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... will need to have completed (read: passed) the following by the end of first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing ... smattering of B's along with A's every semester. I completed the requirements ... Circuit, it's basically a loop for you to get the feel of your cart/bike and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  ="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the ... the names and emails of EC's Medlinks (students who are trained to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  winter and the slew of second semester tests starting to take its toll. It ... a rejection. Or perhaps you were accepted and are worried of the stresses that come with MIT. Whatever the case, it's clear each of us has

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  name of your undergrad institution and more with how you make the most of ... ’s the next rung to climb, or because they tie their sense of self-worth to the prestige of having a few extra letters behind their name. These are

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  the future may look like. I suppose this is a sequel of sorts, one that threads through the pages of an established past. The years since my coming to USA, to MIT, have been some of the most monumental years of my life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  1,126 students joined the Institute as freshman in the fall of 2011. One of them was Spencer Wilson, a young man from the small town of ... rebuilding in his backyard. Spencer sent us the equivalent of a Maker Portfolio

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery ... , which have a list of each of the teams. Not only can you read all the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  of self respect. At least that's the way it was with me. Something that ... only the parts of the material necessary to hand in a completed ... .409 (which I highly recommend by the way). Another piece of universal advice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Tell social media about it. Put the offer deadlines on your calendar. Ignore the deadlines for a week. Fret over which offer you'll take. Weigh the pros and cons of each option carefully. Ask everyone about it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021