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• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  there. Rain   A (broken) roto tank used to collect rainwater in ... inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia ... ; A spring in Warwara, Kaffa, where residents walk to collect drinking

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  18.S190 that's .0093 more than 18.S097!

  

  . In this process, I also had to find a professor to be an advisor for ... rigorous, and really hard. Like, it's meant to be a class you can in theory ... students are vaguely expected to understand by this point can be used in much

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 27, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  classes haven’t gotten in the correct rhythm yet. I couldn’t find a ... . The chorus is a single line, at least I’m not as sad as I used to be ... with causing a scene I used to dream of being a positive force of good to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end ... , and I now have a list of 140 different acronyms used at MIT. I spent two ... . (If you just want a list of the translations, you can find them here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  patients to lists of symptoms: that it is necessary to use a combination of ... finding a subject interesting, and actually wanting to do it; research, for ... . It seemed that it was in fact possible to pursue a joint study of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  , find themselves in a place they never expected to be: the back of the ... rewarded for a lack of preparation, so when you find yourself in a situation ... In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  couldn’t pinpoint a simple way or the right medium to use. A way that would make it easy to understand, especially from a non-MIT point of view. In a ... can be attributed to how course selection in college is a double

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  tell a computer what it means to move in the best way (like maybe using ... computer eats up the power used by Ice Land in a year to learn how to speak ... find interesting. Part of it is in how we explain things, like using too

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  morning person in training. I'm trying my best to find a rhythm that works ... awake in the mornings is so nice. My routine is to wash my face, eat a cup ... . For the past couple of years, I've used an app called Sleep Cycle to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in ... .010 teaching staff had put together a list of review papers to help us find our ... ’s law in this case) and proposes/discusses a path forward to address that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  we use it to account for the speeds of gas and stars in spiral galaxies ... (which required learning to use sheet gelatin and finding an alternative to ... , you might even contemplate how to make a nice triangle in front of the

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but ... as best as we can to find a venue that's the appropriate size. Also, by ... "expressed interest" in the school, and they try to use that piece of data to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  —  could use a bit more time to get everything together for their college ... on in the world, it is a confusing time, and I want to make sure it is ... Action. This is a longstanding policy. There is no reason to rush your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization ... bookshelf have narrowed in scope. They used to contain arrow pushing diagrams ... , being so deeply engrossed in a topic. And I get to take this depth with me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  and live in a country that I haven't lived in before, I want to explore ... "fucking slut" because I was dressed in a sports bra and pants. I wanted to ... friends probably could've told you that. I've moved to San Francisco, a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  fisherpeople in Maine to find responses that could be used to argue for a whale ... public policy in this way exactly, but it does seem to me like a clear way ... to someone.  # In spring I took organic chemistry and a chem lab, fully

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  find other people that will listen let alone participate in a ... exponentially. In just a week or so of classes I feel I have come to understand ... only a week at MIT I have already come to fall in love with every part of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated ... this to love, in that a loved one can be a source of rest, but at this ... words are used. I trace a lot of the influence in my writing from spoken

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A ... conservatories, she has a perfect record at MIT in advanced courses across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  (who is also coming to Maine) lives in Orange County, so he a) drove us ... from a plane to bring supplies to people, ie soldiers in the field), but ... *Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006