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  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  . Thanks again to Lydia for helping me get that online before I was an actual ... a red cape, [who] played the communist "Internationale" to the delight ... best home for them. The more outgoing hacker-types got involved in the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  sweat for several hours. Sounds fun, right? *(Keep reading, it'll make ... Hello, world! (Sorry, I had to. It's the classic "first program" for ... , decide whether or not you'd like to apply here for school). Since applying

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  -so-exciting lives of your friends offline or online, and that only amplifies when all of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a ... application pieces and statistics for each one, I immediately felt underprepared

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  upperclassmen where they’ve worked, and look online for companies that interest ... I asked people around me for advice, tips, tricks, and things to know ... experiences/fun things and every week first semester I tried to add to it, and I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  throws a party that has 50+ years of history. TT helped us locate space for ... , each floor did their best to hold engaging events for prefrosh. My floor ... unlikely as that seems) and BC would go online for one or two semesters due

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Academic Conference and also things I have learned about publishing research in the past few months

  

  CHI PLAY 2020, an "international and interdisciplinary conference for researchers and professionals across all areas of play, games and human ... for all fields - publishing in human-computer interaction probably works

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  been playing the piano for twelve years while founding a club and playing ... about it. Around the same time, I discovered the online writing scene for ... Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... weeks old for me, but the least fresh interns have been here for over two

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons, but many more because I was having fun staying up late and just hanging out with friends). When mixing and producing albums for my a cappella

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  and its tendrils for instilling this belief, i played a part in it too ... if extracting my physical energy as a tax for my sin. the entire month ... with machine learning. i am also a counselor for promys. it’s a math

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  for literal months now. Every time I start writing it I feel like I ... play drums on the worship team. We also do Life Groups, which are small ... of the best things I’ve participated in since coming to MIT.   

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  of my best friends, Colin, as we chatted about getting into our ... for you, Christina," he told me. "Ahhhh, I don't know. Probably not ... get in. Period. I checked the decision online, put my head in my hands

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  limbo for an eternity before inevitably executed. Or you’re not accepted ... possible opportunity, fun, or success. Ever. Good news: none of these will happen. Better news: everything is going to be OK. Best news: you can

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  cell achieved an efficiency of 7.7%! For reference, the best ... cat I found online.)[/caption] The inspiration MIT.nano is MIT’s state-of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  for all four years (they don't), or whether MIT students ever study ... weaknesses. He knew he could do well at either. The problem, for Sam, was not finding the right answer: the problem, for Sam, and for many students like

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  online, and I assure any aspiring scholars of MITese that you will find ... name for MIT's famous class ring, whose design is unique to each class ... and a prized skill. (2) Term for alumni who remain socially active at

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

  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  to work for multinational companies by their sophomore summer. kids ... us for more. reality check–at the moment, i’m 10 hours away from a 2.004 exam that i am so, so not prepared for that i really shouldn’t be writing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  breaks. For example, one of the booths was Ruby Red Appreciation, where ... floor in East Campus, we played the game for a solid two hours or so. The ... could bring him Ruby Red. It turns out that he needed some Ruby Red for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  course to becoming a Educational Media/Multimedia Fellow for the MIT+K12 ... IAP, I was a teaching assistant for the very first time. Elizabeth ... online video. Elizabeth and I share a lot of the same values when it comes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  10 Things I Learned 1st Semester Yeap.

  

  print for writing-centric high school classes like US Government and Psychology. With that said, invest in your own printer for college – might just ... to life at large? 5) Online scheduling/sign-up applications are the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 24, 2009