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• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  to win races, they can use technology. Well, I guess that's just a ... "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What does “drinking from a fire hose” mean?

  Getting an education from MIT has been likened to taking a drink from a fire hose—the sheer number of opportunities and rigor of our coursework can leave students feeling hosed. So it's only fair that students
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  claustrophobia, a sense that if I don’t make something I can’t go on. Art is a ... ’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... for 6.046. I put it on the top shelf to avoid the oil paint rubbing off

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can ... list as many as I can. The most popular jobs for the graduating economics

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my thing. So I took a moment, thought, and told him the first of my pursuits ... fleeting fifth-grade dreams of being a mechanical engineer. When I was being

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some ... , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... an attorney for McGuireWoods, LLP. And I have two more friends entering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  blocking my driveway. Buy your friends a drink w/ your savings. Have your ... 't have a license for getting into 21+ spaces, only your passport, which you ... IDEA. So you apply for a Massachusetts resident ID card instead. Even if

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Ultimate Showdown Making important college purchase #1

  

  tools you'll need for classes, but the hike in the snow can be a ... 're about to head off to college, and you're thinking to yourself, do I need a laptop or a desktop? I too faced the same question 3 years ago, and thus

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  rapidly cool hot metal?". Well, that's what I've been asking for a while now ... :06:10 -0400 [08/02/05 17:06:10 EDT] From: Sam Maurer To: Professor Christopher A ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  ="real home"]home[/annotation] for a week, where i was mostly alone, besides the ... nothing due. i wanted to spend a day in nyc from sheer boredom, but it ... replaced the definition of 'home' in my subconcious. i'm in a completely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions Beginning To Arrive How are you guys doing?

  

  Hi everyone, It's been one of those weeks here in the office - I can't seem to get anything done. I'm working on the big Q&A thread that I've been promising you for weeks. I also owe you my post-EA thoughts. Both

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  Council for the Arts), it was 9:15pm, and I decided that, after a day of ... over to Baker House to hear the wonderful sounds a piano can make on a ... . The answer: a loud and resounding thud. EPIC FAIL!!!! But I'm being

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  applications from a certain geographical region? Or are they random? I mean, will ... will shake out, but I expect we'll be up slightly from last year's ~2800. I'll post an official number when I can. Oren asked, "I'm assuming you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  -registration). Basically, all I needed was a signature on a form from the Harvard professor ... you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... to do a presentation today; I haven't given a presentation since

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  most succinct advice I can give is from Adam's dad (my future father ... reaction for the nth time because you just can't get it to work... well, I ... open for transfers, unfortunately. 4. I think Colin gave a great

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer’s end

  

  spin up a 16.62x senior capstone project. i've preregistered for my first ... this is the first time i've spent a summer at mit as a UROP student ... cards than i can count at the laverdes sandwich shop walked to harvard

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  ) writing a 2-page reflection for 17S.914. But these things can wait. Right ... grains, I read through my slides and script a few more times as we wait for ... persevere and eat some more. What can I say, it’s a celebratory kind of day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  provide a few proprietary products for use (i.e. Nvidia Jetsons or ... controlled with two buttons. 11:30 PM – As I snack on a red velvet cookie from ... set in and I can feel a warm blanket of drowsiness wrap around my tired

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... 'll leave you instead with a couple random facts: I’m from San Francisco, I ... . Now, I may decide to paint them a different color, speed them up, or

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  more, but i hope you can bear with me for a bit), as are many of my ... i’ve known for a while that i’m a pretty awful conversationalist. my ... ask me questions i often pause for a while to think before giving a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022