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  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  choosing between 8.022 and 8.02. so maybe i should drop 8.022 and work on ... grown, or so I damn well hope.  # I went to a Q&A for the 2025s, and ... ’s, who would study hard for half the time I did and get better grades. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  walkouts scheduled for March and April. In response, some high schools have ... between speaking out and getting in. We have already informed those who ... passion to work wisely, creatively, and effectively for the betterment of

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  route through a whole loop, and even run between adjacent stations. In ... : We sent Kevin our plan, and he had some advice for us. Start earlier in ... Vassar Street towards Kendall Square in the cold for a bit, and then took

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  last week, and it was a chance for each engineer to surface this idea and ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... their usual work just because they feel like it. And then go to work the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  to the extent —  and only for the reason —  that it is “narrowly ... class to be “more diverse” is a complex and contested question. For the ... [/annotation] — and [annotation note='For example, steadily rising graduation rates

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

  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  purgatory and get my degree just in time for the Class of 2012 π reunion. But ... and working for a long time. Small Headphones - These are for walking ... , easily accessible port for headphones and microphones. But most of them

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  credit for me, but also accelerated my blacksmithing knowledge and practice ... ="alignnone" width="198"] riveted V (for Velez), spiral, and fitted bars ... , and to add to that, I needed a specific amount of space between the tab

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  . Splash, for example, happens for one weekend every November, and it's aimed ... everyone got kicked out, to elect directors for the summer and fall programs ... actually had responsibility for, and I'm not sure what happened, but somehow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  equally between covering the assorted classroom and research opportunities ... in its north and south walls, to allow for expansion of the dorm. Today ... for their pent-up creativity. Dorm pranks and mischief have been

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  Square. My lifestyle has changed in ways subtle and profound. For example ... good parts are what I'd hoped for, and the parts I was afraid of are ... the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an Easter vigil alive at east campus

  

  meant feeling the heat of the sun, hearing Jesus gasping for air and ... its usual white. She is surprised and asks if that is the reason for the ... performers gather in Talbot Lounge and pray. They pray for salvation, for MIT

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

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

  

  , the legend, has taught for Splash. And this will be yet another post ... Splash is to explain both its scale and the classes. For one, Splash is huge. There were 2,142 students enrolled for Splash this year, and 608

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 28, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  alternates between ‘be the bigger person and forgive’ or ‘an eye for an eye’. I ... , which would make things easier for myself as that narrows my focus and ... my love and appreciation for Avatar to another level because the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  between yoga and powerlifting. For me, [annotation note="But not injurious ... pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in ... and how to take risks. But the most important and fulfilling thing for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  ’ve been out here for two and a half weeks now. I’ve seen seniors in Algebra II who don’t know the difference between subtraction and division, and ... between division and subtraction? Take the time to give them a conceptual

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

   Credit For Reddit, when Alyssa and I baked a bajillion cookies and enticed ... undergrads and found out that people tended to use certain frameworks for ... choosing between two majors, and eliminated one because they "don't like

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  culture, and while there is clearly no objective way for one to claim one ... different dorms as a prefrosh, or as a freshman, and trying out what works for ... between having an average college experience and an amazing one, and that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department (or EECS for short (or ... numerous committees and won countless awards for his excellence in teaching ... wake up for class, and asked if there was a way I could make up the lab

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  East Campus (EC) and Burton Conner House (BC) for summer rent (the other ... to the bottom for my concerns about how COVID-19 will affect FSILGs and ... -clean team for group dinners and brunches. Dinner was served at 7:22 PM and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  evenly between my childhood companions and my closest friends at MIT. The ... for fifteen years, goodbye. Then, I got on a plane and came to Boston, a ... the year, and I went back to the South for the summer. And I realized

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022