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

  

  the thing I'm designing on my screen can actually be manufactured in ... ? Maybe we can use PWM. I learned that in [annotation note="Dynamics and ... filling in the gaps, I’ve built something incredible: a foundation. I can

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

  sellout’s conundrum i am a lost child

  

  elite higher education. In The New Republic, he wrote, “I taught many ... moment’s notice.” In retrospect, it’s a cynical take—in college, I’ve had ... Southern Hemisphere, I read Mihir Desai’s op-ed in the Harvard Crimson, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  wait until some of the other postdocs come in. 9:15 AM. Since I can ... exactly what needs to be done. I stick my cell culture media in the ... temp. 9:45 AM. I am putting the DNAs back in my box when I discover that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  with bending and how they can work in harmony or clash, and I love the ... everywhere, and I can't tell if it's because it was always there and I just ... childhood shows like SpongeBob or Dora. A lot of channels I had access to in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  simple. I signed up for 6.01 in my first semester and went to a few ... -nighters in studio. Linguistics major? Other research areas excited me more. I had this 21W phase in which I would become an esteemed science

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  I really enjoyed Ana's recent post about a single day in her life, so ... into them in the hallways. Most of the time it's because I genuinely don ... pursuing a career in writing or the media industry. I'm hoping to interview

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  strange but in the short-term, this minute, I am glad because I can sit here ... I spent the last three weeks in Italy through GTL, and the two before that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  , but I got in, and he didn’t. When MIT hopefuls ask what an MIT student ... . Maybe I’ll write about my application some other day so we can like ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... half actually screwing the sheets in. I expected plywood flooring to take ... finalized, I embarked on a sidequest to rig up the net in the center. It took

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  mentioned in his last post - "I actually do agree that the best thing you can ... computer, opening up the MyMIT page that I hadn't visited in a few months. I ... took a few days/weeks to settle in. I got some congratulations at school

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  concentration of college students. There are more colleges than I can count in the ... : “Definitely not in a big city.” I’d spent my entire life in a small town in ... big cities alike. As you can probably tell by the fact that I’m writing

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  : explicit lyrics) a song I mentioned in my very first blog post. There may or may not have been tears in my eyes by the end :’) This past month, I ... has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  semester. 6.832   class. I had the most information about this in my ... actually works in the lab where I’m doing my thesis--we’ll get to that later ... praying that seniority would work in my advantage helped. I also desperately

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... observations are organized into five categories. You can read this article in ... catalog was published” and “today” means “today, in 2021”. I won't be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
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  On identity f(x) = x

  

  I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... being gay in contrast any more. I can’t define myself as being gay in ... . Sure, I can tell you his favorite video game, or what student groups he

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  , carefully revising every sentence so that I can communicate it in whatever ... lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
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  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  's insane. Equal in insanity magnitude is I became a blogger in 2008, which ... between the amount of stuff you can do in a given year, and the amount of ... to tell you all about it, but I can't just yet. Very soon though

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  ," "I can't wait to meet you," and "I already feel a special love for all ... excitement and bubbliness, there's insecurity in comments like "I…have NO idea ... as a senior who knows what's ahead, I'm sad. In the fall of 2012, The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  interstitial fat around the gut, I unrolled the intestines as carefully as I can with the tweezers. I still ended up accidentally poking a hole in the ... before I started dissecting the head, I leaned in a bit too close and saw a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 28, 2023
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  Train Coming on navigating

  

  city I was moving to.[/annotation] I was scared. -- At one point in The ... I found it hard to breathe. In the play, Christopher pictures his dad ... flow". But following a sequence of steps? That-- that I can do. And these

  • by Paige B. '24
  • July 15, 2023