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  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  at 4 PM, my apartment’s heaters start to kick in and create a truly alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my ... ’re wondering about the process we follow to evaluate applications here at MIT

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  decided to take 36 units, because we knew that senior fall would be busy ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first place was just to work our way up to this class. And after taking it, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia, to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  complicated water is. I created this post as a sort of quick-guide to water, and the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was inspired to write this post by a tumblr question I received while in Ethiopia

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

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... my first all-nighter talking to amazing people. I remember my host, who ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  has to do with the fact that for almost my entire life I’ve had to deal ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  gallery of my notes note taking progression

  

  could allocate enough brain resources to keep track of everything. At MIT ... semester. Deadlines seemed to vary more dramatically between classes; for ... time every week, I had to decide when to work on each problem

  • by Victor D. '27
  • April 8, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  made some art about the iberian peninsula featuring a long winded unedited rundown of the month of january +/- a week

  

  Madrid airport (beautiful delicious architecture) trying to figure out what to do, and eventually we got to our hotel. It was Christmas Eve, and we ... on farmer mode, btw. Not to brag. Turns out everything is closed on

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 22, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  .02 (Electricity and Magnetism) subjects that most all MIT students take to giving up hours of their time to making sure students feel comfortable with the course material, both professors have contributed so much to the physics

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  doctor worm not a real doctor but i am a real worm

  

  the 17th to saturday the 29th i went into lab every single day. i justified it with the fact that i didn't have any classes to take my time away ... them look all shy, and i had to learn how to perform transplant surgeries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  in a funk and salvaging hope

  

  funk. A deep funk. It took me awhile to notice. A few long months ... I am, nor who I want to be I've made decisions and said things that don't feel true to my values everything feels off   trauma has

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... pronunciations to hordes of kanji characters – the slightest deviation of curve

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  just do it don’t say you’re gonna do it!

  

  in 2.008, a meche class known for its final project: to manufacture 50 ... as a noun and a verb (CNC: to cut out a part on the CNC mill ... , essentially telling the computer what toolpaths to take."]CAM[/annotation] model

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 23, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been keeping me away from the blogs. The thing is, I don't know quite how to phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to ... , why am I writing this post? Why am I sharing it to you, rather than cryptically trying to talk about it without actually showing it so you don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  reflect on the past year, and look forwards to what's coming next. Where are you going, where have you been? These questions are hard to answer ... ability to push through difficult semesters, that I feel more comfortable

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house ... side project where they want to create an auto turret with a nerf gun ... printer to print out all the parts. [carousel image1="60227" image2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  At some point during the semester, when walking to quarantine lunch ... walls of the Infinite that I hadn't actually bothered to stop and read. In a regular semester, I was always in such a rush to get to wherever I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new ... 's been wonderful so far, and we've been able to leverage the technology and resources we have available to make the virtual course as interactive as it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020