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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... Danny Ben-David ’15 is a physics major, East Campus historian, and ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  recommends a math course for you. Your advisor is also informed of this suggestion. It's through a system called MITx, which is like a big interactive textbook a lot of Psets are done through. I did well in Calc BC in high

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  My Gap Year Part One: The good, the great, and the very, very dumb.

  

  sounds like: living in a van, which is gutted and re-modeled on the inside ... ’t follow me. In Rome, there is a running path along the Tiber river that ... where you think of yourself in a movie. Or, y’know, a blog. I know a lot

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  after Luís Francisco Verges’ death, a fellowship in his name is still ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we have worked for years to finally reach. This is just a little excerpt on ... me, my name sat proudly in bold at the front of a line of far more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

  's tires rotated, and somewhere in the back of my mind there is a small voice ... cyber-storage. and this also feels right, in a way, like there is a ... i graduated! *confetti noises* i took a semester off back in 2015

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  power. In Nigeria, electricity is a matter of arbitrariness: at any point ... , although this is now a dated abbreviation). In the consistent absence of ... close. I graduate in June, if all goes well. A short while afterward, I

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

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  ." The cycle of hobbies is almost a guarantee in my life. A hobby I know I ... going to! I'll start with a picture. It is 2014, and an embarrassment to ... palm pilot are equally potato. This is a picture of my third apartment

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  in the first semester is good. First, you're in P/NR; second, you get a ... decide between majors is to take classes in them! Pick a HASS class, like ... out of the way. Pick an intro subject in a major you're interested in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  [annotation note="i mean...hopefully lol"]eventually emerge with a PhD in ... good about this career path; control theory is a field I find interesting ... fascinating, and space exploration is a mission that I believe is meaningful and

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing ... , driven by passion, and a feat made possible by community. In fact, when I ... ="Residence Exploration Week"]REX.[/annotation] In the past, we’ve built rollercoasters, a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an undergrad begins with no major, being Undeclared. This is not a coincidence ... , major in Biological Engineering. I kind of wanted the vibe of a less-is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  somewhere. I love that students can find a family in their living group and ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh ... tightly-knit my floor culture is and how wonderful it felt to be a part of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  query out what is virtuous or good in a given set of circumstances ... is true in a lot of different ways—I'm taking a lot of different ... might be interested in and ended up with a six-page document. Each set of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Race Against Myself Learning how to walk

  

  In 1st grade, there were these 1-sided sheets of simple math problems called “Minute Math”. Some of the strongest memories of my childhood is ... pencil down announcing that I had finished first. In 4th grade, in

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 16, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... being a student. Nadya is undoubtedly a passionate hard

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  of a sudden you imagine competing with these people for a spot in a university. There is a ridiculous amount of pressure from both adults and ... extraordinary things about a small subset of people is that they have the power to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... first day of class. Sixty-odd students fidget nervous-excitedly in a ... pointed out to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Your first last day all my life has been about / waiting for people to go

  

  took the elevator to the new room, which is in 5 East. It’s a rather ... ? Twelve. MIT’s response is laudable. Our house team did a really good job in ... spotless. Moving out, of course, is just the move-in process in reverse. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Applying to Grad School How MIT Did and Didn't Help Me

  

  . In some ways, it did the opposite. MIT is a place where things move ... dedicated to mentorship, a philosophy that is widespread in the department ... . We talk about “fit” a lot in undergrad admissions—that admissions is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 22, 2018