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  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor and then they approve your course selection to officially register you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  's transportation systems]   Or even in the United States, we can use data and ... of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation ... figurative (and for many literal) feet, not only for the quality of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  : especially 1) the state trooper at IHOP and 2) friends we ran into there). I ... ! Brought to you by bloggers Canna H. and Am T. and a pair of mouse ears ... things scary on Halloween: college applications and cats. College

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back home—back to Iowa. June was spent in a transitory state. Slowly packing up my things, deciding what I wanted to keep and what I wanted to throw

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  situated at the midpoint between Boston University and MIT, and just as I ... Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking ... stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  , before it was bought and subverted by Buzzfeed, was a truly delightful ... -style Twitter bots, which actually do take source texts and produce randomly generated tweets inflected by the voice of various academics, journalists, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , from times I'd scrape my knee and then keep running, tearing the wound ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and then I moved to Boston, where it wasn't 100 degrees from 8 am til dusk

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  degree. During his freshman orientation, Loren and I met up to talk about ... /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour, and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  . The bloggers are a diverse and multifaceted bunch, but there are thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... , and there's even an iphone app, which is super useful for tracking all ... snow:no snow ratio is. I bid someone to go forth and Google! And then get

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking ... Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... Anna's and bumping into Shamarah '12 in the Infinite Corridor, we arrived

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  's contact info, and make the call today! Now, what if you're applying for ... , while you're thinking of it. And I certainly recommend contacting your EC ... respond. If you've given your EC reasonable time and haven't heard back, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I like to do the jumble sometimes

  

  that it was at his house, which was quite dark, and seemed kinda scary to ... MIT just before the onset of World War II, and his MIT, while having the ... example, there were many fewer humanities courses, student activities, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 9, 2004
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  all 50 states, 63 countries, and nearly 900 different high schools ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This past year, inclusive of both Early and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  . or, when the news breaks and i am not in the right state of mind, i don ... , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep hitting ignore and ignore and ignore until i actually need to deal with it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... and an aging parent and hasn't been able to get it done yet. Judging by ... application process, and believe that, as is true at some schools (but not us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To BE or not to BE Bioengineering, it's so hot right now.

  

  surgeries and hold a defribillator in my hands and say "Clear!" As a kid, I jumped around and had a tour of careers: judge, astronaut, movie star, video game designer...you get the gist. And then in 6th grade at the

  • by Bryan
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  of impurities, and heat treatments (1). Thus, the same piece of silicon ... Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through the 2A program, and ... Lab for Manufacturing and Productivity (LMP). Her thesis advisor is Dr

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006