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  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  .02 (Calculus), and MAS.110 (Media Design). You can Google each of my classes and ... A few weeks ago, I attended a meeting for one of MIT’s many clubs. It was a lively meeting, full of introductions, discussions, and sandwiches

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  the design Jorg, the lecturer in charge of our labs, was totally on ... of him. This semester, I was fortunate enough to take a class at MIT.nano where I immortalized one of those pictures as a solar cell! [caption id

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  people to ask questions about your silly hats. Take pictures of yourself. Take pictures of yourself wearing silly hats. Take pictures of your ... permission, of course.) Work on problem sets. Consider procrastinating on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  offered, and explaining the hundreds of clubs and student activities, along ... school publications, but most likely while describing the future purpose of ... creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Challenge You Pi day approaches.

  

  day? I'll start: To have something of my design land on Mars." I ... reason for wanting to come – and the primary reason of everyone I have ... ) – was not the fear of being unable to succeed without MIT, but rather a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  whole month of high school as easily as middle or elementary) and returned ... school, too far for many of the people in Muti to walk to for water. One ... what sort of water data to look for, how to design our solution, and what

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , because it's again negative ridiculous degrees outside, and the rest of the ... , about what people were doing. Justine offered a ride home, so four of us ... This post has spoilers for the theme and structure of MIT Mystery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  for my undergraduate degree. It's a quirk of my schedule that my 24 ... day of school, it's the last school night and therefore the last cocoa ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  activities. I remember the form I had to fill out to accept my offer of ... my offer of admission. It's been too long ago that I know I'm inventing ... Content warning: mention of suicide, discussion of death. Quotes are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  of mine who lived in Lauren’s dorm, offered to walk me back. He had ... depressed, due to the intense nature of school, I felt incapable of reserving ... A good friend of mine, Angelina G., wanted to write a guest blog post

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  acid. MIT is a steaming pile of muck. The smell of the once-great school ... : That was East Campus, video by and courtesy of Eric Lujan ‘19, screaming ... , not all of which is residents, from 7:07pm Sunday, May 3, through 1:47am

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  their detailed study of Chicago’s exam schools, MIT professors Glenn ... among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree ... sophomore year of high school. I felt as if I’d been transported to another

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  . Someone at the [annotation note="Office of Minority Education"]OME[/annotation]—likely my freshman year [annotation note=" My senior year of high school, I ... of their classes in high school; I was worried about how horrible the

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . Nerdy, silly, sporty, food-offering, you name it, that type of activity is ... —a time for high school seniors to visit campus to see if MIT is really the ... no stress—no exams, no due dates, no daunting expectation of quality

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  . Unfortunately, after a lot of really well-designed experiments, it just turned out ... lot more deep than many of the ones I made in high school. The way I go ... ” and out of state school I applied to. During the college app cycle a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... - speaking in MITese. But what else would you expect from a school where ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  principles of design, which are sets of visual terms that I learned in my intro ... . Desserts offer more flexibility in terms of color and textures, and after ... her it was for a school project (which is true!!).  Back to Table of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  middle school, and the combination of such an inspiring professor with the ... I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live ... If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  , though. Almost all of my messaging in high school happened over [annotation ... of leaving high school and growing up and maturing. Whether I’d have ... socialness; feeling more adult, but also more lonely, in grad school"]dozens of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023