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  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... consider cross-registering for a Harvard class. The commute is only ten ... paperless (sorry, MIT). A regular Harvard class is worth 12 MIT units (also a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  confusing"]Boston[/annotation] is a relatively small city, I have spent a lot ... -related life. However, my opinion surrounding these bridges in Boston is much ... ="alignnone" width="1000"] just look at how far she is[/caption] However, this 442

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  into bins based on how much I liked them. The UROP was bad, the web ... before is how visual web development is. My programming roots were making ... -end development is like painting. Often, you start with a wireframe, which looks a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• 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 ... idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  truely is a special place- alive at all hours with people tinkering and ... 3 AM in a cold sweat that things have to change. This is an attempt at ... well… comfortable. Everyone talks about how this is the point of our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  a scientist who changes the way science is taught... Something that ... REALLY wanted to do anything else, or had much of a conflict about their ... before I knew I was going to come to MIT. He is Godly At Physics In A Way I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  probably be called Adjustment is a Process. The subtitle would be Give ... take a Freshman Essay Evaluation, which is meant to test writing and ... -HW which is a writing-intensive class. I went about choosing a CI-HW in an

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . It is tiring to feel like a foreigner everywhere. So, my world is ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many ... --look not much different from a green apple to those who live in the grayscale

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why My 5.13 Problem Set Took All Day Moral of the story: Don't procrastinate, or I'll never talk to you again.

  

  times, because time management is such a necessity. Sometimes I tell ... I've always been a procrastinator. I've procrastinated on such tasks ... before it's due. I'm well aware that this is one of my greatest flaws, and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  on how I got here is the most popular thing I've ever written ... Fair. The fair is held every year at MIT, and Adam's award (a trip to a ... , Adam '07, and his admissions story. (Well, that and I took a thermo test

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  . Ayomide is a junior at MIT (Class of 2018) who studies Chemical Engineering ... ; Classroom 10-250   10-250 is a classic MIT lecture hall, in the sense that pretty much anyone who’s been a student here in the last 100 years

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  ’ve probably seen the show and know how it is. I wish I could call this a ... that. We learned about Ursa, Zuko’s mother, and how much of a light she ... top of it. I didn’t realize how much plates play a factor in how

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  A Great Hunger by Selam G. '18 Learning how to be a human being, not ... B. '24 College—and particularly undergrad—is a liminal space, or at ... staff member"]them[/annotation] all is being a blogger for MIT. I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... to a quad. I was worried about how I'd handle the decreased privacy ... 't expecting much aside from a few pots of hot water with some tea bags from the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  make it work again, or do something new and useful, is a badge of honor ... corridor in the world, the Infinite is occasionally treated as a highway ... ; the exterior is one-eighth of a perfect sphere. Little Dome - baby

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the 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?!

  

  outlet to a telephone line, a highly unusual move. Finally, there is much ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  , you’re probably undergoing what I like to call This Is Fine Syndrome, a ... , “This is fine”, when in reality, stuff probably looks a little more like ... past two weeks, and it’s definitely a normal thing to feel. MIT is hard

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  time (you'd be surprised at how much mathematics was involved). Then, of ... flying a drone is looking at footage taken from the drone afterwards, and ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  be challenged by, and how much; like whether you are ready for a period ... Sam, because that is not his name. As we sat on a bench in Lobby 7, Sam ... apartment) is a choice too, excluding an infinity of possibilities at the

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

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive ... ! This class isn't for "dumb" students at all, it is quite literally a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024