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  A Typical Day on the Road Having grown up in NYC, I love coming back.

  

  about their travels, I thought I would add a few comments from my trip ... time I'm in the city. I spent my high school years making bagels at Slims ... ) Les Cline and Larry Horowitz picked me up at my hotel in mid-town at 7

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 17, 2006
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  My favorite thing about MIT, by far, is its vibrant dorm culture. I ... and to be reopened in my senior year. Despite knowing this as a prefrosh ... ="aligncenter" width="494"] 410 mem drive baby[/caption] Yeah, no. BC became my home as

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  Classes I Won’t Be Able to Take also "What Is Pre-Registration?"

  

  submitted my Fall 2019 pre-registration on May 1 because I knew exactly what ... times I have submitted my pre-reg without an ounce of doubt in my mind, I had some second thoughts. I just resubmitted my pre-reg yesterday. Only

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 23, 2019
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  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  "] tulad ng paghihirap ko ngayon (like my struggles now)[/caption] Unos. The ... approach. One of my favorite songs is Cueshé's "Ulan", which is, of course, a ... you hear in literature and art but not really in practice. My strongest

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 22, 2021
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  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  , I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my ... understand. And lastly, this find was probably my favorite discovery out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Solar Catsby Turning my little ray of sunshine into a solar cell

  

  board with my plan. The only problems were that they had never done ... ,86844,86841,86594" caption="My quartet of custom solar cells." /] Day 3 [image_grid images ... for Catsby’s solar cell.[/caption] My four custom solar cells actually

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to choose your major putting people in boxes, feat. credit for reddit, social science, and lots of yarn.

  

  -tool-cum-participatory-art-installation for our final project. What you're looking at is a rendering of my ... ?] 5. People in my major are [coders? problem-solvers? makers and ... enlightened. Someday I'll tell you about my experience with WGS.111, "Gender

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 6, 2015
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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  , I took part in my first hackathon- The Assistive Technologies ... impressive model of what we wanted to build. On the day of the event... My ... amazing "working" with my teammates and so wonderful to get to work on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  rappelling from the ceiling of the auditorium; my team's involved a real ... work.  It's one of my favorite things about product design ... reflected in the prototypes. Earlier on in the semester, my team's sketch

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
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  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  : Unfortunately, CJ underestimated my completionist tendencies. I’d seen a version ... using less sensible notation. (Alan: For what it’s worth, my timestamps ... off my boxes in the East Campus lobby on Tuesday morning, they didn

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
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  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa, where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
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  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  .[/annotation] As my colleague Chris wrote about the amicus brief MIT submitted in ... writing this blogpost is to reaffirm, in the strongest possible terms, my ... got a scholarship to a math camp in Wichita the summer after my

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
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  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  got an easy question wrong on my 8.02 midterm, so I must be pretty ... and their resulting academic achievement. “My Entire Gender is Counting ... know a few things? I’m a girl, and I’m white. My favorite movie is James

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
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  How to Make Money at MIT for all of us who don't know how to make a startup :(

  

  my ~6 months here and all benefits/cons are mostly from talking to ... and the tasks are more library/tech-based than grabbing mail. To my ... ="NO ONE TALK BAD ABOUT SEVERANCE IT BECAME MY ENTIRE PERSONALITY OVER IAP

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 4, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  enrollment of each outstanding new class. While I don't want to minimize my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shiny Circuits Shiny, in some subcultures at MIT, means REALLY AWESOME

  

  the life of an MIT student, my pictures are not about my life as an MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 31, 2009
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  Burton 1 Social Club This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for my ridiculous, hilarious, amazing floor.

  

  's why we encourage freshmen so enthusiastically to look around. But my ... mind - happy Thanksgiving! * [ETA 11:01 PM] So my description of Ravi

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start ... investment banks like most of my friends had five months ago, remembering well

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  clear any personal belongings out of my space in 3-001 before the ... minutes going through all of my stuff, I spent a good hour rummaging through ... titled MIT: Mind and Hand.[/annotation] I could feel my CJ

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022