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• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  much time on YouTube if not more; the mild shame that right now the only ... I've been living on campus, working on finishing my MEng thesis this ... been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s Your Future, Charlie Brown! Charlie Brown, Friendsgiving, and the Erosion of Deep Literacy

  

  Mrs. Patterson had alluded to all week while we sat on the floor of her ... out a DVD and starts up “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” on DVD. I had ... television as a whole. I was on the flight back from Boston, after college

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  , rdng szn, available on Spotify or Apple Music. And I’ll be adding more as ... extensively on this website and in many blog posts. Plus, you wouldn’t want any ... more than a year, or so. My episodes of extreme productivity placed me on

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... he added, "The cost of sequencing is dropping enough that this is no ... take his class) and his group on the Human Genome Project, perhaps your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  It’s been a long road… ...gettin from there to here

  

  Admissions bloggers. I lived on 5th East in East Campus and I majored in course ... Distance Medley (a 5K, a 10K, and a half-marathon, put on by the same organization that puts on the Marathon) for the past two years. [caption id

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  [annotation note="For a year, we lived a 4.5 minute bike ride away from each other, which was closer than we had lived growing up."]fifteen minute bike ... apartment laughing at funny text posts and Final Fantasy 7 fan art on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Forty-Five Still somehow worse than last term

  

  Add Date -- the last date on which you can add a class -- is this ... (1.013) has a four-hour lab 12-4pm on Wednesday, which blocks out a lot ... couple weeks, the course has been heavily focused on the financial aspects

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  students will have taken an idea from nothing more than a sketch on paper to ... bump on a force pad to unlock the gate. Pappalardo has essentially become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  scored 40 points higher on the exam than predicted. (Or was it 50? I can ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  stuck this piece of aluminum on the mill. A mill is essentially this fancy ... different diameters, we pocketed (made a square shaped hole) on the top of the ... below! Again, I failed and forgot to take photos... but essentially on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a ... to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in ... vary widely based on the country in question. For instance, Italy is

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  . Allan: Wow, this is actually super apt. I literally just turned on Ghost ... r s t on so far in our entire time here. Besides being a punch in the ... to do well on the next two exams, final, and psets for us to pass the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  semester of working all day and into the night, and snatching thirty minutes of relaxation at the very end at the cost of thirty minutes of sleep; a ... the gym, or the minutes of sleep i was previously getting between 1 and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  you find on YouTube or HGTV. In the words of my friend Emma, "it's an ... giant glass door with a nonzero possibility of falling on you and ... seeing as the money spent on the airbnb was nonrefundable at this time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cloaks work. We'll release new episodes every Monday on our YouTube ... entire blog post without periodically saving it (I like to live on the edge ... the problem sets. Which brings me to why I'm back on the blogs. See

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  .” [caption id="attachment_92999" align="alignleft" width="300"] Rillito River ... let it out.  But — where does my climate go? My desert, already on the ... around. The desert survived; that’s what it evolved to do. It kept on after

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  number of deferred students later admitted has been about 300 -- but who ... Midyear Report, which will be available on MyMIT in about a month. On the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  number of deferred students later admitted has been a bit under 300 -- but ... the Midyear Report, which will be available on MyMIT in February. On the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  have taken at least thirty classes and spent over 300 hours in class or ... “on the communication problems encountered in researching and writing a ... past summer on the Big Island of Hawaii and is continuing it from his lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  my body now hurts everywhere because I kept falling on my face. (Just ... on and it felt wrong to pull out my laptop (under my seat) and blog ... , so I finally have a chance to update you on what happened. The banquet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025