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  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... automatic slideshow at the bottom that shows off pictures of our alarm clock ... big hopes of working in biomedical engineering and product design. Now

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  To whom much is given… ...you know the rest!

  

  offer of admission from MIT or any of the other excellent schools that you ... , thought or uttered some portion of that phrase over the course of the past few weeks. I can tell you with a fair level of certainty that it is just

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  that. all i wanted, at that moment, was to write a single line of code ... know when it’s coming. you’re sitting in front of your laptop, staring at ... hila at tulak i feel more busy right now that i’ve been during my fall or

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

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  three-course meal cook-off at the end of July, which would be judged by my ... mostly a product of his environment and upbringing, he still, at the very ... . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  ; Here at MIT, you'll find that both entries are equally applicable. In ... yourself what you've gotten yourself into, let me assure you of another truth ... first set of thoughts about coming here. Following CPW, you're positively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  ball, on the other hand, is a ball only held at the end of the academic ... Photographer taking the survivor photo at St John's Another great perk of ... who helped me overcome many obstacles during my first two years of MIT. At

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  depicts the emotion of NOT HAVING IT… because I most certainly was not at ... one of my friends Charlotte M. 20’ was presenting at!!! Good thing there ... sure that at least that part of our presentation got heard! All of our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Escaping An introspective vlog about MIT and getting ready to leave

  

  Cape Cod, not-so-pretty shots of mac and cheese, an attempt at a ... I have five different takes of this video that were scrapped before I ... is going, though. I'm working on so many different types of projects

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  “He touched the brim of his hard hat and glanced back at the dome ... thesis defense was at 9:30am over Zoom, with a committee of six professors ... that the road ended so abruptly -- a two-hour Zoom call at the end of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  pumpkin in my life, which is part of why the pumpkins that emerge at French ... also has a host of other talents): Now, take a look at this ... girl, since I kind of gave that away) wins. 5: At the pumpkin drop, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  At the end of the semester I emailed Random Hall’s social mailing list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... 'm super proud of this mural. Before MIT I would have said I wasn't at all

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  about the comfort of knowing there's at least one thing out there that I ... is kind of annoying, and I enjoyed programming more when I’m not doing ... short answer is that I discovered the joys of web development. The long

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  learned everything I needed to at MIT. But in these moments of reflection ... that first taste of intrinsic change, using the time at home to reflect ... was academics. It was the feeling of running freely and openly at MIT to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  myself looking at dozens of issues over dozens of years, digging through ... efforts were necessary, because at the time, a smaller proportion of ... recommendation of a committee that parties be shut down at 1 AM, which I think

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  Every time I look at the faces of younger MIT students, especially ... the end of classes. I teared up at the Black graduate celebration, at ... felt instinctively like "family". Students and donors at a table of the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries ... incentive for me to just enjoy looking at the fire truck on top of the dome

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... room and see if we could find pieces of ourselves reflected back at us ... natural, where you can focus your efforts on achieving instead of diverting

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  living groups but also of universities), so it's really fantastic that at ... at the end of the day. We're so cool that we were not only one of the ... at a corner of the table, not distrubed by the lack of attention

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  stud that i could go to at any time, even odd hours of the night, and ... expo, or attending freshman formal at the top of the prudential. along ... into crochet, because one of my roommates at the time, sharon z ’27, had

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  look of sadness when it came. I figured, MIT is for those other kids at ... Note: all stories below are unedited accounts of current and former ... screamed loud enough that the person on the other side of the living room

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018