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  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  Thanks to Petey, whose ideas I am stealing to write this post. Thanks to Alan and Vincent for reading drafts. This post is dedicated to MIT Facilities, the people who…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  . Some recent ones that might help are Life Changing Classes at MIT ... life, and you'll probably come out of it with a list of fifty classes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  water table wouldn’t affect the life span of the well. Of course, if ... life among my family in rural Ethiopia. Uncles, aunts, cousins--they are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Clockwise from top right: sketch model review, sketch model review (on a real stall), mockup review, final alpha prototype on stage.  Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera-wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment, then return to their conspiratorial…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  Four years ago, Melis ’08 posted a list of the “101 Things To Do Before You Graduate” for her graduating class. That was right when I entered MIT. Now, four…

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  (Keep voting, guys! Remember, the poll closes at midnight PST on October 28th. Thanks a lot!) At around 1:30 AM on Tuesday, October 16th, Burton-Conner’s internet went out. Somewhat analogous…

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  and Life Skills. The website provides a series of videos, quizzes, and ... students to experience college life at Dartmouth and network with Dartmouth ... , college admissions, and campus life. Industrial site visits are also offered

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  educate people from every walk of life.” This and other statements on the ... life demonstrate those bona fides beyond a shadow of a doubt. I think ... valuable and life changing experience than if I had stayed in a program

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  I'd keep muted over the weekend. My life was on pause this weekend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Words of Advice for the Incoming Class you did it! now what?

  

  kid that's studied biology all your life, whereas some of you may not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  limited given general student patterns of life.']vast majority of MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  There is no such thing as a typical day on energy levels and productivity

  

  food, what happened yesterday, how much sleep I got, how my social life

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 25, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to find your way around MIT mit building numbers are logical, but weirdly

  

  I’m surprised that no one’s written a blog post about this before; the closest thing is this paragraph on Wikipedia. This was originally going to go out just before CPW,…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 11, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  I remember exactly where I was when the email got sent out. There was this sense of nervousness and uncertainty in the air. I had woken up to my phone…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 15, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  (Credit: Drone footage by Matt Carney, taken from Henry DaCosta’s 2016 Senior Video.) Five months ago, I bid farewell to my high school, Ward Melville. In my three years there,…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  prepared (and well-funded I might add) to have to time of my life seeing how

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  positions that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  great/hellish time anyways. ...figure out what to do with my life? Okay

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  a forums post cannot communicate the complexity of an applicant's life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011