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• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post ... the US. Addis Ababa doesn’t have a lot of tools and parts readily or ... ratchet, or a screwdriver, or even pliers--he just has to use the tip of a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last post on a happy note, in actuality, the relief of spring break only lasted so long. The calm before the storm you might say. My second round of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  DONE (sorta) If I'm done, why am I still stressed?

  

  because right now I'm a little too tired to do a coherent entry. The end of ... went down to the Museum of Science, over to Boston, all down the shore of ... the whole thing, I got to see a couple of rounds of competition. Maybe

  • by Snively '11
  • May 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  out of the dining hall, I stop to get some coffee and he chats with a ... Italy for IAP. We’re all busy.” There’s a moment of quiet, after all the ... the end of the day, she’s been stressed out trying to keep up with

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• FAQ / First-year application

  Who will have access to my application information?

  Registrar’s Office and Office of the First Year for example) and with some ... At MIT, we hope to get to know you better through the application ... you aren’t comfortable sharing with others. All of our privacy policies
• Blog / IAP

  I(t)A(ly)P trippin in the off season

  

  A friend of mine gets airline buddy passes through his dad which allowed us to take this impromptu little trip to the North End's motherland. I didn't do anything educational whatsoever, but I sure did enjoy the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  from the sacrifices of my soldiers to brighten your day. May you win your ... As I walked up the steps to 77 Mass Ave this morning I was ready to plow through another day of committee. What I got was war.  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Surprise! Long time no see!

  

  the way to dinner tonight we were discussing Adelaide '09 and her role ... Ruth. Then, on the way back from dinner, we were discussing Sam, Mitra ... , and a nice walk back from dinner, we ended up back at the dorm and I

  • by Snively '11
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many ... yesterday the first day of spring. I was promptly informed that I would soon ... the FIRST regional. But then Adelaide came by and informed me that it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spreading Santorum around MIT Or rather, just spreading awareness of Santorum.

  

  vs. Spam as a stepping stone to the presidency. Still, I must say, I'm not too fond of my US senator, Rick Santorum. I won't go into any ... strong that I felt the need to express it in an avant-garde photomosaic on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  of event. The pre-frosh are all very exciting, and I enjoy being ... speaking, I already am a sophomore...o__O Yet, the density of my experiences ... optimist. I believe in the good of people. I believe every person has good in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  mistake once." I don't think I've ever pushed the bounds of mistake ... . This is turn explains why I've spent the last two hours of my life ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good ... visit all the freshman-friendly companies and shower copies of my resume

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i am too busy being sad and burnt out i've been spending my time playing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  chill. Without going into the details of the research project, the ... goal. It's a mix of formation control and neural networks within the ... a simulation of the program working so that it finds an optimal path

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  ="Functional programming, of course"]the best programming paradigm[/annotation], but I could ... million digits of pi with perfect accuracy every time! The other students ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  chance of being admitted to MIT. With that said, in the last few years we ... in EA. That's a small number, but to be honest so is the number of RA ... person has access to the reason (or set of reasons) why anyone was deferred

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, [2] and I'm one of the writers, and I ... , all these expletives I can think of, and everyone's tired, the ... International student orientation started last week, and the first

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  Housing is a huge part of undergraduate life at MIT. You choose where you live, and each living group is a community with its own distinct ... ) community. (Or maybe you want a combination of both!) Just like our
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... " from the police the next morning, who had caught wind of my suicidal ... 'll pass because then I'll have to go through the crushing blow of failure

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020