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  Application dreaming

  

  as part of the application to be reviewed? Will it be interpreted as ... technology, about the possibilities for research to improve society, make the ... 're excited about. While I was in California in early October, I started to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Love In the Time of Corona lots of evidence that the people are the best part of MIT

  

  this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to ... , students were being asked to leave campus. No one had expected that. No one. If Harvard was closing down, MIT was probably going to do the same

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ...   Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Avatar and Desserts Exploring Food Art

  

  to Zuko the importance of learning from other nations and shows him how ... waterbenders. The other part of this episode shows Toph teaching Aang how to ... how I was going to represent those episodes on a plate. In the weeks it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • December 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in ... foolhardy enough to enter the Bad Ideas Wings Eating Contest... and was it

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  ? Would you even see it? How would you react to it? Maybe, even if you had ... . ‘18, once pointed out to me how unjust it is that the media often seems ... color? Perhaps you still have the ability to see color, but let’s pretend

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s not fair! ... and why that's OK.

  

  virtually anyone trying to make sense of the college admissions process. In ... situation is probably not going to change. I can't speak to the situations ... unlikely to change is because the priority is enrolling the desired class

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  two will describe the mechanics of how I got those gigs, how to use ... will give you some ideas. This blog I’m going to talk about what I did ... find cheap plane tickets and the ways I tried to not get [annotation note

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  the Charles for the 4th of July, and argued endlessly about how to prove ... you don't blog for a long time, you lose your ability to rhyme. Not that ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and

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

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two ... to minimize exit time upon arrival. Always room for experimentation ... personal. This isn’t to say one type is better. The difference is all about

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  that we interview don’t know how to make stuff, because workshops ... ;this made me want to switch majors” aren’t phrases often heard in ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ten days of live-action roleplaying no joke, there i was…

  

  joined: in 2020 no one ran one, and in 2021 and 2022 no ten-days ran due to ... many of my friends to sign up as I could. The pandemic's been rough for ... spot of joy in an otherwise dark winter. As much as I want to, I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  excellent barrier to emailing it: it is tradition, a very important rule, and a sign of respect to sign emails to the Burton-Conner dormwide social ... boon to those of us who are data-curious and kind of creepy. All MIT

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  Confidential had the answers to all of my questions - about how I should approach ... a good sense of how competitive of an applicant I was or what sort of ... needed to get serious about applications very, very soon, so I hopped on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  little boxes on Zoom and everyone seems so calm and ready to start back up ... unsupervised with Dog 2 because Dog 2 tried to bite him once. Dog 3 hates that ... , who has taken her place. Dog 2 sheds a lot, so it's best not to keep him

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  started looking into the course catalogs because I wanted to find out how ... department of science". It still strikes me how recent biology is compared to ... relativity to tell how modern the ideas in the course description are, but 8

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  how well I did on it. I really couldn't motivate myself to look at the ... this song. But apart from listening to that song, I am a sad sad toaster ... around and I'm like, "Oh no! It's the last time ever I'm going to forget to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Tuesday morning, Dec 12, after the presentation I don’t know how to ... knows more than you just how to make it work. Figuring this all out on our ... [annotation note="pronounced 'two double-oh nine,' referred to among Course 2s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  't really know how to apply knowledge. At the engineering extreme, you get the ... care about the theory behind anything; they want to know how things work ... or complicated than a screwdriver, so I didn't know how to use power

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006