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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  Tuesday, May 5, 2015, in expansion of MIT Gothic. It is up to you to ... forward. The MIT Media Lab is the coolest place in the world. You turn the ... and doors. The MIT Media Lab is nothing but doors. The MIT Media Lab is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  and the end result is beautiful. I will let it speak for itself, with a ... while these economists deserve recognition for their contributions to MIT ... displayed here have made to both MIT and their fields. However, we disagree

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  , because getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose ... "] This is an old photo.[/caption] I once wrote of this room saying: this is a room with a rich history. i can name the past four people who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  physically abusive relationships. It is also, uhh, going to be a really long post ^^; This is a bit of an awkward topic for me to broach, but ... inspired to write this by an MIT confessions post, where someone complained

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  finding place

  

  experiences finding place at MIT. I reflected back on the patterns and ... . MIT has taught me a lot of things about community. I was in a small high ... within my technical interests. When I got to MIT, looking back I think I

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • April 7, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  it's open to the whole (of age) MIT community, this is not a good place ... I thought, since my last post was actually quite uninformative re:MIT ... last post actually, but to recap: Professor Russ Tedrake’s goal is to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  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

  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 / 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 / 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

  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 / About Decisions

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

  

  of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom ... students and parents, this is simply not the case. If you approach the ... yardstick. But there is no substitute for figuring out who you are, who you

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• 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