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  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  Obama address is AWESOME! Let's see, the guy in front of me helped design ... conversation (meaning 90 degrees of Tang will sever a conversation clean in two ... , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  offered such niche and interesting classes, and I believed a combination of ... Community College (NVCC), I was gathering a list of schools I wanted to submit ... student lead/representative. Outside of school, I love going on food

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do ... remainder of your prefroshly days, for once in my brief but glorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by six years of secondary school, followed by a gap year filled with ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  questions, then hope. The event was the showing of Underwater Dreams, a documentary about an Arizona high school robotics team of undocumented Mexican ... panel. Sofia Campos (MCP 2015), Jose G. (Course 16, Class of 2017), Renata

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  much of the summer, I worked with Whitney Z. ‘21 designing, iterating ... , the creator of the show, who gave us permission and offered us some ... people we knew from high school.  So with all of that, we were ready for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  -campus[annotation note="Independent Activities Period, a part of the school year in January where students mostly do things other than school, like externships and ... proceeds throughout the month of February. The pandemic looms larger in the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parametric Cooking how i make fifty plus recipes with just three!

  

  In the world of design, there's this idea of parametric design: designing based on a set of parameters and functions, rather than by just modeling ... some aspect of parametric designing built in, like Revit and 3DS Max

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 30, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  that outer layer, so despite the 34-degree air outside of this 2250 Acela ... 2000 East Campus Rush t-shirt design, or the May 6, 1952 issue of The ... Tunnel Hackers" shirt, designed in a parody of the Jack Daniels Tennessee

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  good,” of getting into the schools. Admission Splash currently runs ... does not communicate the degree to which you are a vibrant member of the ... to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;Accept your room offer in one of the student houses and wire the required ... design and engineer the semester into whatever I wanted out of it.   ... They're not kidding when they say the Swiss are some of the most

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  have even had AP Biology offered at your school. It is these differences ... this is upheld through the nature and culture of our school. It is our ... off, congratulations to the admitted class of 2026. You have taken

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  actual event, the Ring Committee reveals the designs of our class year ... below). What I heard was the sound of a middle school cafeteria x10. I ... Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  consultancy. It’s a team of about 30 people that houses an industrial design ... helps clients with any step of the product design process, which could be ... knowledge of how to acquire them, to give a project a shot. M3 Design has

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  consumes your life during your senior fall of high school, applying to ... with on-sites tend to miss about two or three days of school, and ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  [annotation note="Typing why like this reminds me of Christian school where I ... internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections ... . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Modern urban design The theory of cosmic inflation, developed by ... Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  good for you? It really depends on what you're looking for out of school ... 're seeking a bit more independence and separation of your school/work life ... Pros: Separation between school and the rest of my life. Even though I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand high schoolers walk into MIT what could possibly go wrong?

  

  school, and quickly steered me towards a different course of action: going ... , this necessarily means that I can only capture a very small part of what ... hours of teaching Class class class class Help Help Desk desk It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Reflections

  

  using html tables and virtually no css. Despite the old-school nature of ... were designed to do. Over the course of my four years at MIT I had several offers to, um, join a tour of certain lesser-known parts of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2014