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  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  to SolidWorks, which is one brand of CAD software, though other brands ... sort of what an API is, and I've successfully used it to do something. I ... (which is about a mile across campus from where I live). So I decided to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  academia which is what I think I'd want to do with a PhD, but I'm 20 years ... graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in about 18 months. So today, I attended an info session on the Masters of

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  IAP is almost over! I wasn't on campus for most of it, but I finally ... workshop, which is about to come to a close. I had a wonderful experience ... specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."

  

  you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd, better known as ... tawk? DISCLAMER: THIS BLOG IS NOT THE PLACE TO WORK OUT POLITICAL OR ... communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  were all on campus, 20 or so of us packed into someone’s dorm room, and i ... love or taylor swift. one of my favorite college memories is splitting ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  together on psets in my room or in your room or somewhere else just to enjoy ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to ... there are people that i only got to know this year or this semester

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  the program told the Weekly Dig: "One of the goals of the program is to ... student forgets to return the piece on time," Arning acknowledges, which ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... visits, which are supposed to leave prospective applicants and their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mikey Yang ‘05 Name: Mikey Yang; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Troy, MI

  

  community here is so open, friendly, and accessible. I love being able to stay up until 5am talking to friends instead of doing problem sets. I never ... River is awesome, and the fact that MIT is right on the riverfront

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  on the challenges to overcome, or the endless short-form scroll about ... , and to be quite honest I think a lot of where I am right now is just ... now it’s February... But this one is pretty close to my heart, and I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  ones this week) Even better than all of this is the fantastic Choice of ... careers they would like to pursue or have one or two subjects that they ... choose at the end of their freshman year. Also, changing majors is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  at MIT, which is a big part of the culture here. But I've been ... held opinions on what kind of cleats I should get, comment below or ... Ave Bridge into Boston. I planned to run a quick errand on Newbury St to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  all of my classes (which includes going to all the lectures, reading the ... impossible right now. Life is now mostly a choice of how to spend my time the ... of the course is: reading poetry. A lot of it. To be honest, I barely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  out" but that's a tough philosophy to motivate yourself on. As astute readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  verb (to FYRE in or out of a dorm)"]FYRE[/annotation] form and was ... Jerry on the subway to the aquarium trip. I kind of got adopted in and am ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  . This is an example of the space relating heavily to the work. The wall sculpture itself is inspired by a photo of four concrete trees from a book on ... as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  MIT folks and wherever else MIT folks. I bet one of you is in space ... startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of ... but you can't reveal it yet. And good luck to those of you starting grad

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  monthly playlists of people I'm listening to on my Spotify. You can actually ... Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  of the name and nationality of French/Belgian fries on Wikipedia, which ... the pineapple on the way out, and it is delicious enough to make kings ... Museum of Natural History to see Laura '06 and Vincent NYU, who is being

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006