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  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  butterfly that chugs along the top of a giant golden cardboard stag head ... the world of “making” by signing up for MakeMIT, even though they had no ... for different categories at the end of the night. Hacking officially

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  which are required of you. Tell us about something you do for the pleasure ... bit about ourselves. While we share many of the same values, our ... . It’s a rare and wonderful thing to get to read about the joys of others

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  working for 13 hours straight, from 11 pm to noon the next day. Part of the ... -you-can-eat, but instead of being able to leave after you're comfortably full, the ... to say that this is the bane of my existence this semester. I know this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  ring around the barrel. Of course, it was not going to stay forever, and I'd heard rumors of Caltech coming to claim it. The Monday after CPW - I enjoyed seeing so very many of you, by the way :) - I was asleep

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... dorm showers—their water pressure, the speed of them heating up. It hit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... the joy of learning. We don’t want a laundry list of a million

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  understand the value of learning about all the biochemical mechanisms that keep ... Worldbuilding i.e. Junot Diaz reveals the lifeblood of stories and gives us the ... bloggers) have said this is one of the best classes they've taken at MIT

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  complete in 12 hours. here's a list of all the fun things i'm doing / have ... , and maybe even start running studies by the beginning of next semester ... every weekend starting on the 25th, and practice every day of the week

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being ... replied to any of her texts in the past 12 hours or so. In terms of communication, I've practically fallen off of the face of the planet. "You know

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  again. I spent the two whole weeks of break just complaining about ... promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would ... here and there, like the stray rodent of Loop kitchen that vacuums trash

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  incredible excited for a lot of these classes, but mostly just the prospect of ... instead of being cooped up in my room. But really the whole point of this ... people moved into the house and I've gotten to know a lot of people in it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  Towards the end of any semester, emails start flooding into our inboxes advertising last-minute events, study breaks (the best of which have ... semester, and I jumped at the chance of signing up (as did Chel R. ‘15, who

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I ... I go to them every day, but some of the further away buildings and ... I guess I satisfied the “or two” part of this prompt. Ace a test ✅ I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can ... .) Psets stand for Problem Sets, and they are the equivalent of the "homework ... . * They are comprised of mainly critical thinking problems, and the number

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... words, a quick laugh in the hallway. Having them notice you seems to be of

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

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... deckbuilder, you'd draw cards from your deck at the beginning of your turn, have ... , and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  's Women's Week. Check out the variety of events that are going on. Women ... incorporates and embraces the properties of intelligence, competence,and ambition ... to share ideas, air frustrations, and advance the leadership role of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005