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• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  't officially live on Conner 4 but well...as you can see from the list above, I ... Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on ... through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  : You can switch the order of steps a+b and c. This is just the order I ... I'm going to start this out with a quick disclaimer: no, a double ... you happiest :D Okay. For me, a double major is how I've decided to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  the board (including the Law of Exponentials) I can't imagine learning ... necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  I can call her mine and she can call me hers. Call me the crazy cat ... more regularly, and I can immediately reward myself with kitten cuddles ... I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT I GOT CAT This

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the ... compelling. I went down the list, and orange felt just right: rare enough to be

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and ... their attention to the gecko. Geckos can scale smooth walls at a whopping ... understand how these little lizards can defy gravity. It turns out that gecko

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  Basically, I got hacked. Can I just say I love this school? :) ... happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a ... Building 9 right now, maybe we can meet at Kresge?" I realized that there was ... , so I'm on the downhill now. If I can just make it through Orientation

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  our website here. I remember my own MIT interview was one of the most ... In light of interviews quickly approaching, I thought I’d do a post ... you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  can see the view I saw yesterday, no matter their level of mobility) and ... Last week, I was lucky enough to get to see something very unique ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  world. if you comment tonight i promise i’ll read it. i’ll reply if i can. ... it feels hypocritical of me to write words to you, because even if i was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In a little while, I’ll be gone This is not a blog entry. I'm not here, this isn't happening.

  

  I can recall: "Do you remember 8.02? The night before the test we were ... , that's more than I can say about 10.32." Can you believe that they got ... three days of finals I packed my entire life into about twelve boxes and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  , squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the coordination and strength ... mechanical robot with a controller that uses a learning program, the robot can ... UROP opening through the UROP website and was surprised when she was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  the seasons-- that I'm okay with. I can anticipate it. But sometimes, a ... supposed to be good, but can't stop feeling like I'm doing something wrong ... 's selfish (at least it feels that way), but it's important. I can't do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  better than my more sparse dye job, shown above. Oh, I can be like your ... tomorrow! I promise! You can hold me to that. It would tear my soul in twain ... and perils of vegetarianism, but I got a little involved this evening

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  as i can. i'll be actively discussing what knowledge i have with you readers, so you can keep up with what's going on: i'll use names, but they ... . and then me, probably. so what can i do? well... even if we were to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  growing old? can someone tell me how i got here, and there, and to all these ... focus on the good parts, because there are lots of those too. I can tell ... lot better at Spanish, to the point that I think I can learn on my own

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  First Midterm of The Semester Here I go...

  

  can't take an exam without scrambled eggs in my stomach. I've been ... that I can to prepare. I'm going to start the 15 minute trek across ... I have about 30 minutes before the first midterm of the semester. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Engineering’s website because it has a neat background graphic that I wanted to ... “This is it,” I thought as I submitted my last college essay. “I’ve written everything there is to write. I am never writing another word of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  hyperspecific situations: Can I go over the credit limit? --> Nope. Credit limit can be found here. I didn't get into any of my CI-Hs. What do I do ... campus that I may have missed. You can also find community literally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022