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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  voted on which product we wanted to move forward with. Concert Lift was ... was originally placed on MechE, which is fitting, because I have taken ... -ordering extra buck converters that turned out to be essential, and others on the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  half hours of sleep on a train is not quite enough to be rested. I awoke ... scheduled to be on time to Grand Junction, so, as of yet, there is no delay ... to oaeen, which I think is equally incredible. Truly, the height of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  'm creating a shattered glass looking thing on all of my walls (1 down, 3 to go ... list asking people to send me their projects. Here are some of the ... of pretty paper art. In fact, I did a UROP on designing this stuff over

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Parents, Please Read Prefrosh and students, read this too, and make sure to have a discussion with your…

  

  of my stress is self-imposed, it's me telling myself to do well ... I normally won't is explore the bowels of College Confidential (if I ... , and the prospect of A's is almost heart-attack-inducing. I don't think

  • by Snively '11
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  e) Other Some pretty important stuff, and then just some pretty stuff.

  

  major is more of a personal journey, and these blogs are supposed to apply ... formal, aka "Floormal", on the last day of classes, for which we all became ... sustainingly intriguing enough major at MIT or elsewhere. b) If there is such a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  year or semester to graduate. It is much better than realizing you hate ... , though I prefer to celebrate on Fridays, not Wednesdays. It’s why MIT is so ... Friday to celebrate finishing psets. This is, of course, not required, but

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... go, the better the view gets. You flew to Pittsburgh on two weeks ... everything is largely out of your control, but you still have to sprint in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  is not for everyone (though you have to admit that, for better or worse ... , which is something I'm very glad to know. Take a nap every afternoon ... 'm not sure that I or any of us will fully come to terms with the loss of a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  vast majority of applicants, is closer to the idea of qualified or ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application ... , and to become aware of problems which exist in the world which need

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  film making is one of the hardest things you can do, even when you ... went out of town for one reason or another. We sat together in our cozy ... dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  me the strength to declare the major that I did: 6.08 6.08 is one of ... having a specific focus or lens in which EECS is taught. This class focuses ... are up and out of bed by requiring you to place your feet on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  walking on the beach and talking to one of the upperclassmen. I listened to ... it, which was in contrast to every one of my classmates back in ... up to called the IMO, which you can think of as the Olympics for high

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The MIT Major Arcana a collaborative art project

  

  Fool, which is not a part of the major arcana, in the same way that an ... cliffs on campus, but this frosh is standing on top of the Great Dome. (don ... card is heavily based on other Strength tarot card designs, which

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

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  ) ... ... and when I’m alone in some other city on a work trip (which is where I ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why ... listening to books. People seem to enjoy what I make and the joy of others

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  first time I even considered applying to MIT was in January of 2022, when ... listened to more, i guess. Gloria and Teresa carried in number of songs this year. Good on them. Ceri listened to "Here Comes a Thought" from

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  of what cards you’ll be dealt, and to carry on from there. And that is ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a ... the waitlist and have a few more months of waiting to go, or feel like a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 16, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  to those who live in villages on the other side of it. They walk or ... . It is impossible to abstract out all of my emotions, my experiences ... is held there on Sundays. The surrounding villages have none of these

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  major delays on the Red Line, or a stroll to Jamaica Plain on a summer day ... what kind of bridge it is to flex my [annotation note="read: googling ... dot the Charles’ 80 mile span. I’m only going to focus on eight of these

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  of it.  (This kind of stuff is not remotely obvious to first generation ... information I left out of the story so far is what I actually do at my job. On ... ’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  was that. I ran maybe 4 or so of these games and people seemed to like ... to reach all of campus to publicize events, clubs, fun polls, or start ... players chose to place a large portion of their points in one or two

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020