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  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it's not finals (Common, who enjoys those?). It's the 2.009 presentations ... what they learn to create an alpha prototype for a new product! It's an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... SAT II's, which was like 29483 years ago. Unable to bear it any longer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  , so I figured I might as well take this opportunity to clear up some of the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not ... opportunities to focus on nanotechnology. The primary majors connected to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to ... really amazing MIT students. Not all of us knew each other before we came ... from the city center. It's about 45 minutes to walk there. It is an

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could ... coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  posted here.  The deadline to contact your EC has passed for early action applicants. But if you are an early action applicant who has not yet contacted ... be reviewed and added to your application when we receive it. Remember

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  summer camp, right? Not quite, it was part of sophomore Shaye Storm ... UROPers hung up their lab coats to head home, Shaye and two other undergrads would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  of over 100 freshman across nine floors, rarely needing to sink below third choice for any student. 2. Megan '08 for introducing me to the song ... loved was born with roses in her eyes." 4. Joe '08, for inviting me to go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... Amazon’s six-month free Student Prime trial, I would like to offer a personal apology to the BC front desk (and also mother nature) for being

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  your problems. And when there are problems you don't know how to deal ... at East Campus now, and not Next House, I'm spending a lot more time on ... /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... the latest tides of prefrosh, but nonetheless I do want to totally sound ... I write, no matter how stupidly punctuated, is fraught with tightropes

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  not becoming a doctor. I regret how much time I spent feeling abjectly ... to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  go there, Kayode, that’s all you listen to.” And he’s not wrong ... IT'S BLOGGER WRAPPED TIME This feels almost poetic to me. The very first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  out on not having to take any once again. Last semester, I took all ... unique. We have 10 labs, 4 midterms -- each broken down to the Core section and the Spiritual/Right Now section. The final exam is there to provide

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  over, do not panic. Our swimming requirement will have prepared you to ... behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  , Jewish food is not. However, tonight, one of the largest lecture halls at MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  , I almost forgot to take advantage of my (last :'/) biannual free post ... students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... told me that he convinced the EECS department to let him take his GIRs

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007