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• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is ... background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some ... his finger to locate its center of mass. I would observe this, although

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  I really love the "day in the life" posts that have gone up recently ... meet in Early Action committee and I don't think: 9:00AM: arrive at work ... would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  .) We'll see how it all goes, but all in all I am very happy to be done ... in the tagline, the fight's begun but not yet won, and I'd rather blog ... what lab I'll be in: I'll be working in the Koch Institute for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  what would happen if i worked in anti-aging and made no progress for ten ... shows i never would’ve started otherwise - for instance, i do not have the ... highlights in around 15 hours - but i wonder how much of a show’s message or

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and ... ones in my size (I have big feet...). When I finally did find them, they ... learned this the hard way. I finally gave in and spent a little more for

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  what MIT had for me. I never thought I would get in, but I went down You ... dorms I could live in. Some people around me--my mom who went to her state ... campus. Except I have never in my life had enough self-confidence to be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that surprising, given that I’ve only lived in Tucson half the year. My cousins ... in the Park, and over to the fields, where I played soccer in second

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  fine tip, I would pick up paint in such a way that it would form a bead ... attempt. While working on this, I would take breaks and scratch in this ... instance, I don’t think I would have learned about f-strings or **kwargs in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  most of these t-shirt bearing tech companies in this reality. Instead, I ... if any companies 1) interested me or 2) would be interested in a CMS/7 ... I'm not going to paraphrase all of that in text. But I think the most

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  perspective in life (i.e. a lot) you can make it through the day and in fact an ... 're thinking, "But, why would you have to save anyone's life? I mean, why would ... nonetheless. Today, for example, in one hour alone I had to handle one accident

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  to interact with it in a big way, I wouldn’t have come to MIT. I would ... rocky Appalachians. I was all over the place. The meditation camp in New ... was leaving. I'm in love with Oregon, and I'm obsessed with my family

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... would've said if I were in his position. I quickly thanked him and made a ... else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  blues for jazz history. Which, let's be honest, I probably would have done ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... such an incredible resource that I'm always surprised we even have it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more ... and 680! writing). I was wondering if it would help my application if I ... won't be in place until 2006 at the earliest. "Also I know you stated

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Professor Creates DEATH RAY! I'm not making this up.

  

  with a healthy dose of comedy thrown in. So when I saw a headline about a professor inventing a real DEATH RAY, I didn't figure it would be a real article about MIT. I was wrong. An excerpt: David Wallace, an MIT mechanical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I got to see what others write about in their amazing poems. I didn't get to attend as many of the workshops as I would've liked, but I have ...  The Tech, in which starting this next volume I will no longer be the Campus

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  ." I noticed that it had to be in by February 9 or I would suffer a $40 fine, so I figured there'd be no harm in doing it tonight. A few moments ... MIT. How does that feel." Now, in my mind I know that it was a long time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  a group of people living in the same place would all have the same ... advising seminars, because I am in one and I like it a lot! The idea is that ... [annotation note="Technically, they're 6 credits, or half a class, but I would not

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study

  

  same week, and in some cases the same day, and I felt overwhelmed beyond ... break. So, with second semester in full swing, I had about 5 midterms in ... would have. That Real Analysis exam really changed the way I viewed tests

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • April 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  I am not your typical MIT student. In high school, I never built a ... Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the most awesome people I know. Two years ago, I would’ve laughed at you if

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010