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  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  the strong case I made for her. Why? Partially because she reminded me a ... MIT's average scores, and some I made a strong case for, and others I ... of the case that was important for me to remember. Also, Jordan (from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  received a key that I initially assumed was for my room in the visiting ... . That made for a tough first couple of years. Coming out of it, though ... -- i.e., when to leave something behind. He thought for a minute then

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  your journey. To all of you, thank you for trusting us with your ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... mid-conversation that I’ve been animatedly [annotation note="If I had a

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  I Really Just Cannot Write Anymore of My Thesis I wish I can bang out essays like blog entries.

  

  where I will ultimately end up for med school (that comes in a few weeks ... two majors, along with a slew of classes in between that I took for fun ... has developed for itself a spirit and a culture that no university can

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  household was hard. For a while it was fine (up to around middle school ... in more depth in one of my essays for a CI-H I took, but the gist is ... really would be a more welcoming place for me, the future so full of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  Discord instead of the office. When the time came for us, a few weeks after ... 't really stand for anything now, so the directors come up with a backronym for what they want it to stand for. It gives a nice theme for the art

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  especially important for a product that absolutely needs to be reliable ... ways for exploring ideas. It’s not cheap to have such a big focus ... . A quick, functioning prototype for a foam wire cutter.  Mocked up

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  College Shopping List Everybody do the shopping cart!

  

  only a sleeping bag (good for retreats or sleepovers) and had their ... 't need one for a while. When you need one, though, you will NEED ONE. So be ... won't be doing laundry for a few weeks, though, so you can wait to get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 26, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  I can really say is that 22 is a recurring theme at tEp. For example ... brunch at 11:22 AM. Once a meal was cooked and assembled on the dining room ... one heard or saw me get injured. I laid on the floor for a minute

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

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  a good GPA is an important factor in applying for grad schools (I ... , patience, and a little bit of tolerance for the seemingly endless stream of ... , by coasting for weeks at a time and then cramming two nights before the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  2.009 presentations were December 11th. Theme: WILD! 2.009 is a MechE capstone class in which six teams each create a new product. It's known for ... that demonstrated possible mechanisms for Concert Lift. We used a linear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  experience that may or may not suit your nutritional needs. For me, having a ... suitemates is certainly an important factor to consider. I love living in a ... (there’s a historical reason for this!), but I would never forego the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  see the full-size photo.) That photo is incredible for a lot of ... ended up on roofs.  The earliest example known of such a hack? 11 ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  -nighter (for fun!) - for fun, or not for fun, I think I had a bit too many of ... last four years <333 11. Take a class during IAP - yup, in Spain too ... to worry about a "career" for another, oh, 4-6 years, haha. 57. See a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  [annotation note="much more"]more[/annotation]about that…later. For now, a general ... in small chunks. I wrote up a small, convenient website for easy access ... Vassar Street towards Kendall Square in the cold for a bit, and then took

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  This section is pretty much a catchall for all the miscellaneous things I ... ="107410" /] Storytime: So one of the TAs for 18.02A has a crazy response time. Like you ... feeling a little guilty, we all sent him a thank you photo in response for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Simmons dorm--also a first-time treat--seeing white nothingness for a moment ... , usually trying to complete a challenging problem set, or studying for an ... writing software and assembling hardware for a lego robot capable of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fig. 6: Eigenverantwortung The time of my life. What responsibilities?

  

  ;individual responsibility"—served as a preemptive warning for us to get our sh ... for kicks, let's revisit Junior Fall for a sec, and see how all that ... pre-departure events set up by GECD. Yay for a chance to meet my fellow

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • August 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

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

  

  teachers teaching 504 classes. And two thousand is a lot of people. For ... giving a class called “How to make a timer for Firestorm”, in which he ... waiting. I also helped review a poster design for Splash. The theme was

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

  The College Essay: Yogurt Edition! You like froyo? I like froyo! ^___^V

  

  via Common App for a couple schools so there were overlaps there ... a picture for your audience. Personally, I liked telling stories in ... saying that a great essay always contains something at the end for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 11, 2008