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• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  Blender! - Blender is a 3D modeling software that you can use to model a lot ... thinking about the CMS thesis that i am soon to write and how much i would ... conclusion is that i'm reasonably proud of myself. i have a few dumb creations

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  had a serious learning disability. How is MIT able to provide an ... is not a "one size fits all" school. As a current student, I would encourage your child to attend CPW, to see if MIT is actually a good fit for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say ... this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  -word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since ... what used to be (and in some ways, still is) a very powerful word. But I ... about MIT's eleven dorms). One of these treats is a snowflake

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  fight, my bets would be on Maria. The moral of the story is that I had a ... , UROP is a research program at MIT that actually has nothing to do with ... design*. Scoring a research position is by far one of the best ways to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  bloggers - a source of insight into MIT that I hope is of value as you ... succeed at MIT. My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT. I ... definition is small), having graduated from a completely unknown university. I

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  't have a final, and isn't a CI-H? No problem. Firehose is most useful for ... which I ended up pursuing. There is a new version and an old version of ... their overall ratings are, as well as a few other details like how many

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  conversations about your future, life is too easy and things become a big deal ... wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how ... feels right that next semester is my last. It's a funny thing, one minute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  because I made the choice to. One of the freedoms of having a 9-5 is that I ... really is. I traveled - at the end of 2022, I flew in a full circle around ... finally happened.  On the surface, this is objectively a wonderful life

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  ’ perceptions about letting their kids go far from the roost for college. It is a ... ’s become familiar and comfortable. The point is: take a chance to forget the ... and familiar, but college is a chance to pave your own way and make your

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  control boxes, participants get to take a cruise of Boston Harbor and learn ... classes. The best entries will be posted on this blog. There is a ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory AXO Fondue was last night!

  

  , my sorority, Alpha Chi Omega (AXO), had a chocolate fondue party, where ... , it went off without a hitch, with about fifty staff members and 400 ... of which have houses. We help our party at the AXO "Mansion," which is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  (-23C), although most of the winter is much warmer. Boston is a lot more ... at MIT is assigned a unique identifier. Most commonly, this is a number ... assigned to each department is a matter of historical contingency, and doesn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  the rhetoric about how Iran is "one screwdriver's turn" away from a nuclear weapon is false and misinformed; how Iran's leadership is divided on ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  CANADA which is exciting perhaps only to me, sits on a hoard of unused ... , who is on language number 5, best friends with a milk frother, and ... Hi everybody!! As the first week of class winds down, it is my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... , there is sometimes so much free time after you get out of your UROP ... kayaks, though, is on a first come first serve basis, so we dragged

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  Wide[annotation note='Wide Tim is a whimsical student ... , or the Green Building is tall. Or, maybe I should dream bigger—how ... the question—the question is,  How does one become WIDE?  At first, I

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  remembered what it really meant and how we all have done it. We all pulled a ... excited. Science fiction is my favorite genre, and I would love to take a ... .012, which is a 15-unit two-part class consisting of a structure of materials

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Targets shooting things and hitting them

  

  look slightly blurred; that much is a consequence of focusing on the ... , and the air pistol is pretty much made for that. The trigger is light ... of was the existence of the sights. There is a rear sight, above the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 28, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How did the blogs get started?

  behind the blogs was to open a window into the lives of MIT students: what ... , uncensored posts reveal a lot about MIT students, academics, and life at MIT that prospective students can review to help determine if MIT is the