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  A Week of UROPing in few words

  

  teachers and students on Course 2 work. I talked about this in my last ... and pressing paper down for three key reasons: 1.) I liked the Course 18 ... different fields to make work that can help the lives of many people, and 3

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  moment. A “normal” person would just respond with a number and be done ... scale seems arbitrary and intellectually lazy, with far too much potential ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and ... , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITWE Goes Digital We stan Fred in this household 😤

  

  lecture halls in the Stata Center"]32-123[/annotation] and PE registration ... , move fast, and break things (though not literally because musical instruments are fragile and expensive). That’s why we had our first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  Co-written by Rima Das and Amber Velez Amber: One unique ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear ... makerspaces on and around campus. In addition, they’re able to add descriptions

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars ... , Arizona, my room with blue walls and faded art from past comic-cons. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... had dramatic results, on families, communities, finances, and more. I ... students began to act. Within a couple of days, mailing lists and discords

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... , I applied to two different UROPs for this IAP and spring: A Marvel

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  the world, and I would've believed you. This place was not my own. I closed my eyes for a moment and leaned my head back. I opened them again ... . A mother and son exited the sidewalk and stepped onto the grass. They

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  simple, but the synergies work together and feel really fun. Despite the ... -placement puzzle game, where you put engineers and scientists in certain nodes to try to fix a time machine before it explodes and resets everything. There

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting ... . Like many MIT freshmen, I liked being good at things, and I liked being ... .0001 the normal way and exact my revenge on the placement test that had

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  at MIT...and surrounded by my friends. I attribute this to general boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  back for, and that, obviously, is the most fun we have all year. Since ... server, so we headed over to our dorm and started decorating. We added orange and black banners, a speaker system, fireworks, and "DTYD" in the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  for first-year and transfer admissions (for students entering MIT in 2021 and beyond). We made this decision after considerable study, in ... grades and coursework, are predictive of success in our challenging

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  know that I love video games and making video games, so naturally I ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet ... touchscreens: 🤢 3D modeling and animation: ❌ 2D illustration and graphic

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... subconsciously expecting this from my dorm as well. I didn’t go to CPW, and even though I had prowled the East Campus website extensively and seen pictures

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... intimidatingly) as a “bomb cyclone” hit us yesterday with a foot of snow, and it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  proximity to so many creative and amazing individuals, and right now is one of ... Lambda Tea, and the three wonderful human beings responsible for its creation are Catherine Zeng ‘20, Robert Henning ‘20, and Jingwei Ma ‘20

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  year since 2004 while directing the Media Lab's Center for Bits and Atoms, and the class sparked an entire international "Fab lab" movement. Each ... and Big Hero 6, and in the spring he teaches "How To Make Something That

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

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  Let this blog post (as unrefined, unedited and typo-ridden as it may ... go to work and found that the lab was closed for the holiday, and ... thoughts and providing encouragement. Yesterday, I went to mass at St

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017