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  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  from my MIT education just because of my breakfast condiments. "She's a ... . This time, my iPod is charged and my boarding pass is secured in my ... window seat next to two sleeping men and is suffering from that giant

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn ... is because, as these students go through MIT, most of the scientists

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  moving on to the more important parts of the application -- that is, who ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the guidance counselor letter (the last piece is the interview report). The GC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• 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…

  

  exam. It doesn't work at MIT. The way you approach your work is often ... shoulder the workload at MIT. As I now know firsthand, MIT is a hard school ... at MIT...will it?) Melissa similarly queried: I'm coming from a school

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dragons A blog post for deferred students (and everybody else waiting on decisions).

  

  I got in and when I left for MIT. I wish I had. If I were you—which is ... are for getting to where you are now. MIT is a pretty cool sword, but it ... really good colleges. MIT is one potential future for some of you, and for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 14, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  that option, including the [annotation note='There is an MIT shuttle to ... from MIT.[/annotation] Daily Table is a nonprofit community grocer that ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Reflecting on 10 Years and Lessons Learned Happy Birthday, MIT Blogs!

  

  reflect. This year is not only the blogs' 10th birthday, but also the 10th anniversay of my MIT journey. 10 years ago today, I was just about to start my ... that I would attend UW Madison (wrong), triple major (typical MIT frosh

  • by Kim D. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Distance is definitely a thing, and even Harvard isn't that close to MIT ... . This is mostly aimed towards first-years choosing classes for their first ... : [caption id="attachment_63745" align="aligncenter" width="300"] this is still

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... Sighting of the MIT Dome: making sure it's real since 2013} {First classroom I ever pset-partied in} The hardest thing you will do in college is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  at them. This is supposed to remind us that we'll get through MIT ... so that we see an image of the MIT skyline. This is so that we can look ... finish line. I also think that attending MIT has had a side-effect of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , MIT’s senior capstone mechanical engineering product design class ... ’ll find at MIT to the campus spirit-unifying atmosphere of a football game ... good old-fashioned hard work. While a product is a very tangible thing

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  (Preface: This post is essentially a tribute/continuation of Selam’s posts from past summers - as she wrote, “sometimes MIT students like to do ... this year’s cohort of students applying to MIT to know that as well! If

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  sequence analyzers, is new and better than what is available at MIT". Do you ... body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of ... transfection mix. I use Excel, because my postdoc's calculator is sketchy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  I love getting mail. Actual mail, that is: packages and postcards and ... shelf.* This is a wonderful book - it captures the lifestyle perfectly. Me ... comes to MIT and leaves knowing what he or she loves, then we have done

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] We’re Not in ~Kansas~ Missouri Anymore Going From a Small Town to Boston, by Claire S. '25

  

  best way to deal with this is to find a community at MIT that can become ... across the country!). I’ve participated in HackMIT, which is a large ... at MIT. The program is part of the larger STARS (Small Town and Rural

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 17, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  thermodynamics: everything is in flux, and the forces of progression and regression ... moment, promising prospects, but still little that is concrete. In the post, I expanded the MIT-education-as-fire-hose-drinking metaphor by

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  students—are an integral part of making MIT the special place that it is. ... Leading our transfer admissions program is one of the greatest joys of my work at MIT. Each year, we welcome a small group of transfer

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  continuing to those not admitted, waitlisted, or still waiting

  

  MIT is like, the good and the bad. Give comfort and advice about your ... reality is that we as bloggers cannot connect with the decision that you may ... will continue to grow and become yourself, that this is not the end of a

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

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  took me no less than a week to fall in love with. Austin is on top of an ... around the city. The one I frequent the most is called Barton Springs. It ... beyond the dense trees crowding the river and parks. The spring is cold

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  Orientation is some ice breakers and a 90-minute safety presentation. But this is MIT: why bother doing a thing if you're not gonna be super extra ... Right now campus is quiet. A lone grad student moves slowly across

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019