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  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  the admissions office during normal business hours, to a) help new ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50" 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  think it’s important to include my overall thoughts about attending mit in ... met, but I hadn’t realized how important this was to hear from a mentor ... constantly doing is that it’s often hard to put aside time for small things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  -land without anything to tether me down to things that actually exist. So to hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old everyday physical objects, starting with "How To Make (almost) Anything" (aka

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  ARE YOU PUMPED FOR CPW? Who wouldn't be excited about 72 solid hours ... somehow forgot to submit the event on the left on time, it's not on the official schedule, so I'm just going to tiptoe over the bounds of propriety a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  was about to put myself through sank in. It would be more than an hour ... to MIT, I am sad to report that the habit has ceased and I no longer ... burnt by the burn-out of too much work to do and I steer clear at the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  to pursue interests in the humanities at MIT -- I mean, the name of the ... opportunity to meet with Dean of the School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences (HASS) Philip Khoury, to help us talk about and address the quality

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  month. At 5 I went to the professor's office hours for 8.09. Stayed there ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  things: my last ten hours, which shall from here on out be referred to as ... . No problem. Took less than half an hour, and I got to talk to Bayo '10 ... The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  for Mechanical Engineers This class has 1 hour lectures every Monday and Wednesday, and meets for a two hour lab every week. While the lab ... us how to solve problems using Matlab- the lectures provide the

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1 final presentation, 2 final projects, and 2 final exams then flew home to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  : This is mostly due to working with upperclassmen in Office Hours. I ... surrender my error-ridden code to Office Hours. I always left either fully ... The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  a group of people that I had never met were willing to put hours of ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  task was to recruit everybody else immediately important; namely the ... are slow in this regard, but important stuff has to happen in this time ... puzzles. Importantly, we had to start getting in contact with [annotation

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  mathematician can have, or necessary for success. It’s important to celebrate ... combination of intuition and rigor–I believe the former is more important to me ... [annotation note="Misheel: it is important to contrast the need for dfs in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and the only one on my floor. As hurricane Henri made its way to Rhode ... CourseWare']OCW[/annotation] to prepare for my [annotation note='Single Variable Calculus']18

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  will not be allowed to return to campus after Spring Break. Classes are ... break will all be online. We've been instructed to move out, packing as if ... 17th. I typically try to keep swearing to a minimum on the blogs, but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  an email to these students with this information as well. We use MailChimp to send emails to prospective and admitted students. MailChimp requires that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... important if I was to find the right matches for me. I couldn't rely on rumors ... about the students' choices. With all respect to these students, I

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  !" "Guys, can you keep it down, I've got like 20 hours of work to do and only 3 hours to do it." "But you're 20!" "I'm also hosed!" "BE HAPPY!" "NO ... knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... from high school are starting to come back to Boston for the summer, and ... proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011