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  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my ... soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... ." And it did work. And even today, more than 20 years later, it still does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  .01: Physics Mechanics, 3.091: Solid-State Chemistry, 21F.076: Globalization, and ... -explanatory, and to be completely honest as they’re mostly General Institute ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... Dash is an event specifically designed for high school students and is held each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  signaling that I am bisexual. When I state that I am a computer science and ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  , Rose Hulman, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Indiana University, and so on ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... remarkably well after 20 years), and That time the Navier-Stokes equation was

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  uncooked steak and realized I in fact had a third degree burn. That is one ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... rest when I was sick, let myself heal when I was injured, and to sleep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  according to plan, I'll graduate with a degree in 20 and[annotation note ... with my degree requirements. After this semester, I will officially have ... /BE"]Course 20[/annotation][annotation note="ignoring my HASS and PE requirements

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved. When I came to MIT, I had no clue who I was going to meet and who my ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... general relativity and had already mastered string theory thanks to the ... Hawking and Professor Xavier* from X-Men. My dreams of parsing the grammar

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that ... tax and accounting, and she served a bunch of other small businesses in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  State Police again got involved, and the maiden voyage of the carboat has ... students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the ... Officer Amrys Williams '02, and a team of MIT alums and other folks embarked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  Somedays, I check to make sure my diploma is real and I didn’t just ... "]MIT Educational Counselor[/annotation] for this application season, and being on the other side of the table feels both intriguing and odd.   [caption

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Paradiso A selection of dishes that define my MIT dining experience, part 4

  

  , and one that I often ask myself. Usually, I default to my “origin story ... hall food and by the greater Boston food scene in general, and resolving ... .[/annotation] Junior year was a period of introspection, exploration, and experimentation

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  the Institute’s ROTC programs, and we look forward to working with DOD ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  After considerable twisting and tweaking, I have contrived to design ... Sunday night, and I feel as though I've spent the last forty-eight hours traipsing through puddles of psets, EMT drills, writer's block, dance, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  home.    And it's fine to fake it 'til you make it 'Til you do ... And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  relearning what i know now or: hi, i learned wrong my entire life.

  

  , I've felt like a fake at MIT. That I fit in socially and I have great ... pass. And this was good enough for high school. This was enough to get me by and, apparently, get into MIT. But it's this very method of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  course or attending any other university. -and- I know that there isn ... batch of them here, and I think that the time has come to do so again. A ... undergraduate studies...I am extremely passionate about Physics myself and am

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013