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• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  applying to graduate school, and I want a lot of independence. I believe at ... This was one of the years of all time. I learned a lot, less about ... of some beautiful ideas, I settled into my life at MIT and now have a

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do dual enrollment students apply as a first-year or transfer applicant?

  -level courses while in high school apply for first-year admission at MIT. If you apply to MIT while you're still in high school, you're considered a first-year applicant regardless of how many units of study you may have taken at the
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by ... steps of the Student Center. The Tech Model Railroad Club has been ... and everything had to be done by hand. Today, club members design

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  while she saw it as an exchange where she offered moments of connection ... Splendid Suns in high school, and I finished most of the book in one sitting ...  One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of ... sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here ... out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sacrifice, right? I'm working on designing something that makes

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  , CTO and VP of Design and Engineering. Wednesday New York City. With ... host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Art UROP and an Animation Job Yes, these exist here!

  

  solve, and must work for a massive party of hundreds. Designing the ... UROPing is a very MIT thing to do. “91% of MIT graduating seniors ... trying to find a UROP because of this, and instead waiting for an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT wins the gold

  

  shot from far away. Note how the medal design has a hole in the middle ... attracted quite a bit of news coverage. CBS Boston video The Boston Channel ... . You can read a decent list of hacks from the last couple of years here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on DesigNerds DesigNerds: Product Design TV

  

  actually in the process of pitching the concept to the discovery channel ... at the last page of the pdf. Soon, they will be posting the pilot of ... Discovery Channel. Barry also teaches a class on toy design in the spring

  • by Bryan
  • January 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions Round One What's going on in this picture?!?

  

  . :-) So here goes the first session of this little game... a picture from ... budget master) 2) Mari McQuaid, Assistant Director of Admissions 3) Martha Edison, writer and master wordsmith 4) Bryan Nance, Director of Minority

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome To Room 3-107 Hope you like the new site! It incorporates a lot of your feedback and requests.

  

  syndication feeds. Changed the design to allow for easier reading of entries ... Well here it is, the reason I've been hiding for the past couple of weeks. Hope you like the new site. It incorporates a lot of your feedback

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  school of engineering), [annotation note="Unfortunately, Yo-Yo was busy ... , Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester ... the middle of the rainforest! But I was also a little suspicious. The

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  A few years back, I began keeping a tab of life's certainties ... uncertain when you hold them too close. Still, I add to the list. Markers of ... and uncontrollable, I return to the list. I remind myself of what I know

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 ... provides real-time haptic feedback to help those who are hard of hearing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  that they design over the course of the semester. It's always amazing ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... about the product design process (Ideate. Model. Test!) and then apply

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  I wanted to go to grad school. The mask was just my way of ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019