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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... is the village in Kaffa, Ethiopia where I've been doing the water ... literally has no water. When you or I or even people living in Addis Ababa

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time ... time for gift-giving. A couple of weeks back, I visited the MIT Coop to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  subjects to succeed in later classes. That’s true, but I wanted to give the ... tests, I basically took the corresponding MIT course online. (In fact ... -studying conceptual subjects. I didn’t take AP Bio in high school but was able to review

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... young? haha - tangent: i still get id'ed every time when i buy tylenol at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... . Since I hadn't taken any lab classes or worked in any labs, I wrote about ... of cute, in an eager beaver sort of way.) The NIH website encouraged

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Making A Splash on July 4: The Celebration in Photos July 4th - A Photo Essay

  

  all about the BBQ and fun with friends. I took in the action from Baker ... . FIREWORKS!!! I was always told that July 4th in Boston was ... names, and in the true spirit of MIT, a friend said: Friend: If I had a

  • by Bryan
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  data justice for senior house

  

  people i know; that they have used up weeks in the service of their ... administrators would, in the service of their students, hold themselves more ... undergraduates, announcing and explaining those decisions. i won't bother

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 17, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  throw print statements everywhere in the same way that I would with a ... [/caption] I often joked that 6.115 in a nutshell was, "how do you make something ... "]bros[/annotation] wanting to broaden their horizons. While I've used a multimeter before in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  in when there’s breaking news every few hours), but I went on anyway ... tell which one was winning over me. I’m not afraid, I said to him in our ... I can’t even sleep through the night? That night, I lay in bed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Are We Waiting For answer: FPOPs to begin!

  

  Freshman orientation for the Class of 2018 officially begins in two ... participate in one of 22 Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs), which offer students an early introduction to in the social life of learning at MIT. As

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his ... still mostly fried from sleep so I suggest somewhere in MIT. We also ... I’m fast asleep, probably snoring lightly and elegantly. My body

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and ... three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  gravity. Without the presence of artificial gravity, astronauts would endure ... to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  starts -- they put up the fall 2005 schedule in late May -- so I don ... take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology ... again about taking required classes in one's senior year). Finally, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... around for a while, I discovered it was actually a bug in Manta itself ... If I had a nickel for every time my final project for an MIT class

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  the same in my hometown) and I swore I would strangle someone the next ... am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... choice. After that I barely even remember. I know I'd be happy in any of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  seen -- if you're in Las Vegas, don't miss it. I was lucky enough to get ... In my email this morning: Hello fellow Young Alums! As you may or ... commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  would get this out by fall break AHHHH and then i spent way too much time ... "]Z*OM’S CONSTANT NEED TO UPDATE.[/annotation] I learned how to dial-in while ... refreshing, even if the heat meant that I would’ve preferred a [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... electric motor. In a Baroque church, the organ would have been at the back ... playing the harpsichord; I've just seen harpsichords in museums. There are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance ... have to buy condoms. Make sure you go when they're actually open (I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018