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  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... school because of its arbitrarily bureaucratic hoops. To give you an idea ... in Kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... management has been pretty obvious. In high school, I lead a lot of different ... integrate into my Bachelor's degree. This is where management, graphic design

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  of legendary designers Cooper and Casey who led the MIT Office of Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  . While I tend to doubt that the process of designing and building is what I ... A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  those conversations engaging with the nuance of any school being a place ... week, we (belatedly) celebrated by asking a bunch of former bloggers to ... like a whale lunge feeding']missed them,[/annotation] here’s an index of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  resources out there. Whether it be costs, school funding, or even awareness of ... .mit.edu Description: A public library of courses offered by MIT with publicly available ... channel was one of the reasons I loved biology back in high school)  

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
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  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  ’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually ... can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening ... list of games “You know, I just might be depressed.” “could a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  Excellent Sheep in high school, and revisited it in college; parts of it ring ... but enjoying the rigor of a physics degree and doubling in 21M and 8 ... After I graduate in June, I’m planning to attend grad school and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
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  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  My high school was this tiny sort of dinky-looking building on the ... .” There is obviously a lot of your high school self that is conveyed when ... person isn’t nearly representative of “what you did in high school,” so it

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about ... will be helpful. In anticipation of our 10-year reunion, I emailed all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the company where he works were two of the designers. Adam got really ... (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
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  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  meant to represent the opinion of the Committee on the Undergraduate ... academic policies for incoming first-year students! Starting next school year ... [annotation note="unlike other universities, most of mit's classes are 12 units

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  ="one of the undergraduate dorms"]East Campus[/annotation] designs and builds ... treehouse with a dome on top of it designed by Jordan T. ‘25 and Hanu S. ‘26 ... I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  MIT Academics (you know, the REAL reason why you're coming to MIT )

  

  the hoops of applying to graduate school, you will probably not take a ... After Graduation, I now have a lot of time to "reflect upon my MIT ... of the summer, so I hope to continue writing a few blogs discussing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  important, because it's these early design decisions that drive months of work.  It's one of my favorite things about product design ... as “tragic” – because “so many of the designers

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... rabbit (who did not attend MIT) in an apartment just north of Boston. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . And just look at the two campus maps. MIT is a school of numbers ... teenagers of ages fourteen to eighteen. This destination is a high school ... community looks like from the outside. I spent most of my high school days in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
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  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  -acetylene torch, and chisels. I wound up using all four of these during the design ... . This gave a degree of accuracy to 1mL, or 1g. I would be able to get ... I've been blacksmithing for just shy of a year. This fall, I took 3

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
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  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  computer science degree and a master's, and is a product designer for Twitch ... , coincidentally, pivoting out of software into design. Fall 2012 to Spring 2013 ... the Musical Theater Guild working on set design. A decent amount of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
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  I Was Sitting Where You’re Sitting Quick! Click here. :D

  

  -foot vertical drop at a neat 90-degree incline, compared to the previous record of ...   Friday, August 28. Two MIT students sit at the top of the partly-built rollercoaster, one tapping hand on knee to the beat of Galantis (“visualize it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 12, 2015