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  updates i'm still here.

  

  own right, and I was also taking solid-state chemistry in an effort to ... !’ is always a good one- an honest and unquestionable summation of what it ... ’- another frank excuse. I was taking discrete math and fundamentals of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • January 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are ... August, a committee of senior bloggers, recent bloggers, and a few staff ... applications, there much rending of garments and gnashing of teeth, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Have you ever wanted to copy-paste the text in an image file? Well, now you can--thanks to a HackMIT project.

  

  about hackathons at MIT and how amazing they are in the amount of experience, learning, and motivation they can give you in the space of ten or ... . '17, is a Chrome extension whose birth I witnessed (and blogged about

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  Just two and a half weeks and freshman year is over. I'll spare you ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually ... new material between the last test and the final), meaning I had an 18

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  "scholastic" and "non-scholastic" distinctions. The questions read: List any scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate ... have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  .) He immediately stated that it was a good program and that he saw it ... purified and frozen to transform it into a liquefied state so it can be ... goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  , everything felt fake. Days, hours, classes, and psets blended into a ... labelled none of my perfectly plotted points and promptly got a 0. My mother laughed, called me a shrimp-for-brains, and asked when I’d grow out of it

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Love Letter to Tetazoo a valentine's day post

  

  , should I finally get blinded by your light. This space we’ve created, and ... upon three years ago and now can’t bear to leave. As I near the event ... , as you’ve taken the clock by its hands and dragged it with us on our

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 15, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  Predicament of Aftermath: Reflections on 9-11 and Oklahoma City that I understood the human reactions toward trauma and memorialization and the ... History at Indiana University, Editor of the Journal of American History

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  , and traits had I decided to attend any other university or college, even ... wanted to live here and study here. Who wouldn't want to be in the center ... , in the urban locale of Boston and in the cosmopolitan Northeast? "In

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding ... algebra class was very rigorous, and in an ideal world, I would take it again. But it probably doesn't fit in my schedule, and it doesn't fulfill

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless ... stuff and was equally weighted with the other exams. The final was last

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life or something like it Apparently this blog is supposed to be about my life. So here's some stuff about…

  

  exclamation points and intruige. But alas, my life is full of the same sorts of ... field, is routinely quoted in the New York Times, and he knows my name. So cool. Work. My postdoc and I are trying to finish some experiments with

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings

  

  to meet some potential future classmates, as well as MIT students and ... MIT portal for the locations and times for these events, and for a list of all of the events. Saturday Spend an afternoon at the Art Institute of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Professorial Help Thanks to the faculty.

  

  , Steve Graves, Daniel Hastings, and Paul Gray. Each year, many brilliant ... members have included Wolfgang Ketterle, Patrick Henry Winston and Don ... at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, works to make metal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  culture; rather, the institution and the culture emerged and evolved ... OfMakers through this paper, and prouder still to work at an institution full of ... opportunity to recognize and encourage a new generation of makers and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  ="General Institute Requirements"]GIRs[/annotation] and[annotation note ... right now: Right now, I'm in my junior year, and something I've been ... Fundamentals in Biological Engineering 20.320: Analysis of Biomolecular and

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  , including this year, my final one at this esteemed institute. Not only have I ... for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact ... , white walls, my roommate and I have taken it upon ourselves to overhaul

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Demotivators for Christmas from someone who knows me far too well, and just ... pretty poster and a cute saying are all it takes to motivate you, you ... to blog more about my room and the renovations it underwent (undergoed

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  into the world, I know, but you might miss home and this general state of ... semester begins Tuesday, and so will begin the class I’ve been diligently preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015