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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says ... 're going to get rich. —Robo-CJ trading your sanity for a piece of paper that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  student by Alex M. '21 throughlines by Paolo A. '21 I’m Still Here (for ... MIT Admissions blogs are a special corner of the internet because, for ... staff member"]them[/annotation] all is being a blogger for MIT. I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  was when the school rented out the Boston Aquarium for a nighttime party ... Jebby Every fall since 2014, Next Haunt puts together a horror ... and skills—ranging from puzzle-making to set design—to put on a spooky

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  , ash and debris blow up into the atmosphere for days, creating a dense ... ; Day 12: Kissing Cactus Emergency! After evolving among waste for a few ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  graduate can't get a job for two years after graduation?  I felt like a ... ;   In September 2011 I started studying for a Master of Public ... overall Akron's pretty nice. Last fall, I trained for and ran in a half

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  student) would normally afford for dinner. I never missed a group meeting ... hasn’t been seen around the lab for several days in a row, he’s probably ... as why there haven't been any outstanding baseball batters for a long

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  ” does not succeed in that one goal. For me, MIT was a golden opportunity ... is also a good time to explore who you really are. For several weeks ... , assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... . A quick, functioning prototype for a foam wire cutter.  Mocked up ... meeting and cool off for a bit.   1 day until final presentations

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  (This seemed like a really good idea for an entry when I was on my ... line for, order, and purchase a cheese sandwich at the Stata Center ... , running the digested DNA on a gel, and choosing nice-looking plasmids for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  HERE LIES P/NR September 2018-December 2018

  

  handle because I had a really weak background in calculus. For other ... communication skills for prefrosh. I didn’t do too well and had to take a CI ... uninstalled Instagram and Facebook- a good idea, except for the fact that I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • December 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... idea how, I am not a bed scientist. My bed had been with me for 15 years ... . My binder. It sat on the floor, calling out for me. It had a hard white

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  could sleep for a much longer time. I roll over to cuddle with them and go ... ends. I thank my professor for a good semester and leave. I have a 1 pm ... for a few minutes. 12.52 pm: Caragay and I head out from EC. Our lunch

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

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  events aren't worth attending. This is 100% a lie! For a quick ... ? Well, for example, sleep: at CPW, going sleepless just meant a good nap ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  ’s precedent for more than half a century.']further a compelling interest in ... of MIT students that have become [annotation note='What it means for a class to be “more diverse” is a complex and contested question. For the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  recruit people to work for Facebook. I guess that'd be cool if I wasn't a n ... had been drawn for the lottery to see him and Mike Schroepfer (VP of Engineering) have a discussion with our chancellor Eric Grimson, I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  asked for a later flight. But it was too late, ah well. I was thinking ... ? He’s intent with saying that U will be a better fit for me. In my mind ... life? Was it really just a matter of solving for the right proportion, as

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  it's a little tricky to know what to do with it. Especially since for ... About a month ago, a parent asked me: "What do all these majors switching/undeciding mean (My child is just as undecided.): a) There is no

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  , thanks to Vassko, has a more complicated answer. For those of you just ... 't write about the drunken wildness parties in the blogs for a few reasons ... -party type. I, for instance, haven't been to a frat party since early

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  chair kicked by the screaming kid beside me (a stereotype for bad flights everywhere, but for some reason, for me, it always seems to hold true). The ... from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  0.125 not a course 0 class, but a fraction complete

  

  ="Which I got!! More on this later, I'm sure :)"]applied for a UROP ... then waiting 40-55 minutes for your final product. It is about knowing a ... , hall is super quiet, so it's a great time for doing difficult readings or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 4, 2019