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  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  . You've heard the story, but you're there for new perspectives ... ingredient. —anonymous going to Harvard, but for a fraction of the cost. —Robo ... well in the ocean. The same goes for a degree in engineering," says

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  my advisor placement at first, since i had only applied for advising ... “hardest things available”. looking for challenge, i definitely got what i asked for. i talked to the professor about whether or not i should drop to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  student group that runs educational programs for middle and high school ... for everyone else I emailed.[/caption] Josh replied after a few days ... , so I dropped it for a while. With a spark of inspiration, I looked

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  blue sky for walls, and in this space the three floors above us are ... naturally tenable position for a whale, this poor innocent creature had very ... for things if I want to make any headway in what for the sake of what I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  for free online. Proofs is divided into five sections, each one ... topic was Dijkstra’s algorithm for finding shortest paths, my second topic was (the inifinite-ish quantity of) proofs for the infinity of primes

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Gee, my life’s a funny thing Remembering the bills I have to pay, or even yesterday.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first person I met when I arrived at MIT for ... the Thalys in first class (yay for Thalys summer offer!) I picked up a ... any college, public or private, work hard for four years, and end up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  used as a metaphor for life, and that it's highly unoriginal to come up with supposedly clever sayings about boxes of chocolates, games of cards ... panicked for a split second when I actually didn't know how many - but then I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  Boy oh boy, what a summer it’s been so far. For the first time in my ... for the summer, [annotation note="an MIT volleyball player who’s won so many awards for being a stud at her sport that I’ve lost count, a sister

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

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  . Unfortunately, right now, we have for-profit prisons that make money off of ... bigger and better than money. And so my purpose for being here at MIT was ... . Everything’s gonna be different for him, because he has papers. I’m glad he

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  the project leads for East Campus Build. Every year, [annotation note ... only have one measuring reel long enough, so for future years we’ll buy ... inside of them for the posts to sit on. [caption id="attachment_104146

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post for a while, maybe since ... , sometimes I think I won’t ever eat again for three days (which is obviously ... vague impressions of being horribly, horribly sad. For this blog post, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn ... 'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... you need for shelling out something on the order of (tens of) thousands

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  to MIT for the hacks?” *Yes, I'm on a train again, and will probably ... and meanings for things they are called “hacks” here. People who pull ... aftermath of a game of "Perfection." We have two domes, a square courtyard

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two weeks, which filled themselves with card games and electrical failures. We

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  25 Stories of Getting Accepted to MIT told by students and alums

  

  concentrate. I decided to play video games to distract myself and, as it turns ... morning milking and was setting up some electric fence for the cows when ... quit for a few hours after decisions came out, and had to wait about 90

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for ... classroom, all my writing involved my cousins or the farm or playing outside ... things, but finally, I decided to cut them away, for the sake of telling

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Random Ceiling Tiles The ceilings of Random Hall and a friendly message.

  

  love. I came to MIT for the people here. I've had wonderful experiences ... opportunities—for fun, for work, or both—than you have time for, even if you don ... because you know you want to do it, not because of money or rankings or

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  call it Waiting for the Train. Like Waiting for Godot. And in the play ... motivation for what we did? Alan: …not really. But there is, at the very least ... of this done for the London Underground, so I latched onto the idea

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  ) to learn about momentum, or play physics games to reward good classroom ... , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... frustrating, for I still haven’t found the optimal waiting spot on the platform

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which ... fact that I've been at MIT for four years and have never thought to take

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009