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  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called ... became more involved in promoting mental health and general health on ... in for my HASS concentration! I will concentrate in writing and reading

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  traffic in the tubes. Our transfer admissions process was quite competitive. As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  friend Claire L. '17, and I know that we have it in ourselves to do well ... exam is next week.  I have been studying what we've learned in class and ... see myself continuing to take many more management classes in the future

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  in February. Raphael very kindly woke up extra early to help me pack ... asleep and didn't notice that the driver was tailing other cars in icy ... the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  I'M DONE WITH FALL CLASSES! and am now back home in London, doing British things like drinking tea, spelling humor 'humour,' and hiding ... that your uncle is in fact crazy.) Cutest observer ever: A note

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... instrumental backups.  like in Pitch Perfect!) Anyways, as you may know, a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Discovering Product Design through Photography Beautiful photos taken by DPD 2013 freshmen

  

  participated in as a freshman... and now help coordinate! During the short ... idea of what we do in the program by taking a look at all the students

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 17, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  are curious.) But in any case, if you don't know who I am, all you need ... up a fake science show where Ryan and I would do experiments in our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... 't cut it for me and that certain materials didn't sink in until after ... absolutely fall in love with the class (shoutout to Tim P.(but to be fair

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace ... -Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Maker Faire 2012 the Dean is going - are you?

  

  be there! Oh yeah, its got everything. In addition to all of the ... the Internet) went to Maker Faire out in CA last year and wrote a blog

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  . As usual, Steven was in the loop. He mentioned how he had stumbled upon ... an anoymous artist has been placing these little guys in cities all

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  being waitlisted, and a whole spectrum of feelings in between. I remember ... , I had no idea what MIT was. It could have been in Michigan or Maryland ... as a freshman in high school. She is me at the core. She is enough to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... -deathmatch style, minus the cage and death parts. 6.470 finals are pretty boring in ... , one of our freshmen, Kamran '14, won 6.470 with something he made in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at ... hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  So much has happened academically in the last month! A while ago, I ... this post a month ago, so in the interim, I've also built a ray tracer ... of a non-real-time graphics engine. In real life, photons bounce off of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... the question in the last paragraph. In a mentally demanding job, loving

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  they’re paying attention when in reality all they’re doing is scribbling incoherent pen-markings in every wild direction on their notebooks. You can ... can't understand my notes is not because they are written in some odd

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011