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  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  -of-the-art research facility for nanoscale science and engineering. Built near the end ... ="The difference between the lightest and darkest parts of the image."]dynamic range ... dirt, and sunbathing. Sadly, he passed away shortly after I moved to MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  finding the right answer: the problem, for Sam, and for many students like ... visiting friends and doing preliminary research for my undergraduate thesis ... Admissions instead. My girlfriend and I dated for awhile longer, then broke up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  looking for an edge in the admissions process, and the authentic applicants ... I read a recent NY Times piece, dealing with multiracial students and ... have fielded numerous calls and emails soliciting advice on how to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  -universe-Paolo who had the choice between [redacted] and [redacted], and wasn’t just ... . Continuing can be active; continuing is about the linkage between past-you and ... ; I can end up working at a job or researching for a while longer, and

  • by Phi A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  UROP for their undergraduate research and I feel so unspecial ... your future career, UROPs are very educational for both research and ... their experience and ask for donations to the university. This is meant to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... 746572636570746564: At a corner of the ceiling between the showers and the entrance are ... windows, three showers, two toilets, two sinks, 1507.75 wall tiles, and 3907

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  . Take this seriously, so that you know what to look for--for yourself and ... it (I decided this at some point) and just take a break from it all for ... culture and casual relationships should be for more mature, experienced

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  , like missing the forest for the trees, like looking at the sky and seeing ... carried fliers from Live-Action Mafia, the Lab for Chocolate Science and the ... , because I have chosen my classes for the previous six semesters, and I have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... , code, and launch an idea for an app. We design our own problem statement ... for me, as well as ask about other computer science positions, and even

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

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  significant gap between life as lived at MIT and life as represented on the ... feeling guilty for. And soon, shame turned to suppression and denial. Middle ... for the cool girl in school was what it felt like to be straight. And I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  college ends. So, buwis-buhay. The word buwis is Tagalog for tax, and buhay is Tagalog for life. Literally, buwis-buhay means life-taxing. And if ... has been taken out and replaced with routine. Makulay But for now, MIT

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  between being a full time college student and spending my time with my ... them to make that a reality takes a lot of energy and thinking for me ... time for myself and was turning into an absolute zombie. At MIT, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  testosterone and differences in brain wiring in capacity for spatial thought. It ... results. And gaps between men’s and women’s scores on some spatially ... counselors and parents: study, sleep, eggs for breakfast. If you had the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  and current, for the lamp, are really weird. Even if you put a high ... away, and it would still break! *For 6.131 Professor Leeb's explanation ... general. And thanks to Noah S. '10 for showing me his circuitry and giving

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90 ... [z] enough for MIT". When the website loaded and I skimmed that page

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  school for my prickly personality among other things and I was struggling a ... gap not only between consumer and company, but company and laborer, and ... and hidden to make it harder for people, they are not impossible. They

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  for construction in 1923, and opened to students for the first time in ... Vassar Street) be used for classrooms, laboratories, faculty and ... has stuck with MIT for the last 65 years, and has led to a rough

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

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  grasping. I soaked it all in and confirmed that MIT was for me. I was ... her room, and it seemed as though she was just waiting for us to leave ... work!” I thought it was silly for her neighbor to be so despondent and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  UROP and would rather build toys than wind farms was not chosen for a ... for CPW last year) is a photographer for The Tech and was forced to hang ... decked out for the occasion. The flags all looked identical, and the

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

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

  

  India and spent a lot of time preparing for the JEEs, an Indian ... strong interest in and love for economics. Janet: Before I decided to ... vision for my future: go to college and major in computer science. While

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024