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• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  a UROP in their lab, or anything else. This is how Melis and I got an ... offers you near complete freedom in choosing where you live. Whether you ... I didn't mean to write this entry. I sat down to write about some

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , in reverse chronological order: I recently dropped a class, and even ... only classes I’ve gotten A’s in have been HASS classes. I didn’t get any leadership positions in the clubs I participated in. I didn’t have a fancy tech

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  CPW! If we can help you plan for CPW in any way, please call the CPW ... that case, may I submit a few pieces of artwork (they are in .BMP format ... select the class. In a future post, I'll tell you more about my colleagues

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  what I'm doing and such -- so I thought I'd clue you all in on my raison ... , a theatre/band/choir star in high school. I was the only person in my ... high school, and I had lead roles in five of them. I made all-state choir

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  stuff, in which you can carry all your other free stuff. In a related ... lab after the career fair, but I saw a poster in Lobby 7 that said ... somewhere to be in 45 minutes. I looked inside the new reading room and, you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... is a great deal because you can get a Master's level degree in 1 extra ... undergrad degree last year in Course 6: Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  I've never been one for actually truly believing in karma (what goes ... say that I was not in a pleasant mood after reading it. I'll accept that ... assumed it was magic. I mean, how can you ground something and still

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  localization – how a robot can figure out where it is in when you place it ... undergraduates. The EECS department is the best in the country and has pioneered ... -Packard, Qualcomm, Analog Devices, and Texas Instruments. I sat down with Hanhan Wang

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  when I was eleven), I lived in Georgia, in a suburb of Atlanta where my ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  alone, Because sometimes the heart can travel where your voice can’t go ... with tears in her eyes she’ll say: I’m home.   MIT is a truly ... alone in this pain, and that I really admire each and every one of them

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  and determination often collided with pain, resulting in weeks where I ... , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of numbers in some random order (say 3, 19, 2, 17, 14, 4) and I wanted you to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  they can turn a dollar bill into four quarters? Truly, we live in the ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don ... Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  one of the topics in the class I found most exciting - one about which I ... friend Nick and I were in the student center when we happened to run into ... something cannot change what it fundamentally is; in other words, we can call

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn ... with your app in committee, and I can't recreate or try to determine the ... school in the world to get into to begin with. I can use that fact to try

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... both broken, though, so I guess it's in the spirit of our lab to recycle ... geothermal energy. No, actually, I have no idea why he keeps this in lab. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  how can we cure it?" and "where did life come from?" meant that I ... totally mind-boggling. This whole "weather in which you can actually stand ... prayed that I wouldn't make a fool out of myself in the classroom. It was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  , and can I just say: SO THERE. Study Shows Boys and Girls Equal in Math ... , I bring you: a totally useless sneak peak of Orientation. This is what my desk looked like as I planned out BC's REX schedule. It's going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008