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• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  much as self-forgiveness will. But I think I can turn all of this into a ... . I'm sure I can do the same for my sophomore year here. ... take a break. I shouldn’t have scared myself out of opportunities to meet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals! Finals are here!

  

  'd like to see what an MIT final exam is like, let me know, and I can post a ... 'll be studying for most of the time until Wednesday, I will take a break ... I'm currently studying for what might turn out to be my last ever

  • by Bryan
  • May 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... third day of class and I thought I'd show you a bit of what I've been up ... -meter and a tool set along with some safety glasses (which I didn't take a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  Burchards for awhile, but I always thought, "well, I'll just write about it ... , hahaha) we had our final session for our tenure as Burchard Scholars, and I ... in many of my old blogs, but I never wrote about it in a single place

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  wherever we can, and think of the tests as a bridge for reasons I described ... called a "test-free" policy, where we do not solicit them from applicants ... announcement may dismay some readers for whom the tests can be a source of stress

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  in which everyone can thrive and succeed. From what I have seen of ... expect. I believe there has been a growing mismatch between what students ... mission. I have also heard from some who have questions about the report

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards ... makes me feel like I’ve exercised enough to last a lifetime, though. On Friday, Linh ’13 and I took a train to a nearby city, R√ºdesheim, where Di

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

      A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian ... experiment: every two weeks I’ll post an informal blog post with a riddle or a ... -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . Today, I am eighteen years old. I've been at MIT for a month. I don't know ... A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... least they are what I know to be true. Truths are formed from experience

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  rage, as explained by thermodynamics I had a bad day and soon a thermo exam

  

  enjoyment I get from my work, I can't feel any gratification from it unless it works with where I'm at. There will always be a point at which no matter ... Tuesday I had a bad day. I want to talk about what bad days look

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on ... have a lifelong goal of trying to make it onto Jeopardy, and so I view ... , the reason why I feel like this is a "break", even though objectively it

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  to a condition or exact criteria to be met. For example, “I cooked so ... There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... , but rather numbered. Or that we introduce our majors by number (“I’m a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  still a week of late nights. I can't comment on sorority recruitment ... soon enough! As for me-- I met great guys from many fraternities and ... This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• 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 ... video game and joystick, a detector for interplanetary communication, HDTV ... Corporation. Currently, she is a lab assistant, or L.A., for a new class called

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Love Potion No. 9 roses are #FF0000violets are #0000FF

  

  conversation I had with my grandpa before I left for MIT: Gramps: "Now don't be a ... class where one or two of them will surely be paused for a serenade by the ... provide you with a few thoughts on dating at MIT. I make no allegations of

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  ="61573" image4="61574" /] I always have a destination or objective in mind for my ... Period, where MIT people can do "whatever they want."']IAP[/annotation] has been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  vying for course 16 grads at career fairs, I'd say you're pretty set if you can graduate with an Aero/Astro degree from MIT :) (a typical ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  WMBR: College Radio at MIT will anyone watch the entire 36 minute video? probably not

  

  radio station, WMBR. It was a completely spontaneous decision; I had never even made a playlist before, and my voice isn't really the best for broadcasting. I showed up at WMBR orientation in early September 2016, became a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  -school aged students from around the world converged at Labo for a week to ... allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between ... September, and refocus my energy on a different topic. I helped curate an

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  and education? A7) Why yes, I do. If you want to learn more, you can ... , while I've been making things in my spare time, we've also been getting a ... , for example: new origami designs, a chainmail suit, a potato cannon, a

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013