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• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them ... student or postdoc while the UROP office or the lab funds their research

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  progression. One day, the robot may score a lot of points. The next day, the robot may score zero points, simply because a motor screw was loose or a ... major. “Is getting through this courseroad all going to be worth it? Or am

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  coolest. thing. ever. A whole month or more to just do whatever you want ... us as well. So on my more cynical days, here’s what I see: MIT gives us ... could only post rarely sad or angry things because that’s where I was at

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  a good application for a dozen or so carefully selected universities ... you have to finish. so that's, what, an hour or two of your time, times maybe the twenty or so companies that didn't instantly reject you. it

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

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  they center around “fitness testing”, like running the mile or doing pushups. Or they resemble my PE class from last year. We usually started out class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  running experiments or doing work, you're also good at expressing the ... . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a ... . Or as she said, "It's good to know where you can be better, but it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  much and are more into things like management or econ or literature or ... REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat ... what I love, I - for better or worse - took it rather literally, and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , the fact that it was Mes Latino, or Hispanic Heritage Month. Now, there ... discussion off the blogs though, or at least my blog, for now, and focus on the ... another day, though. For now, I’ll just say that the Multi

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  , MUCH safer. Just don't, you know, break your cell phone open or anything ... . Integrated Chemical Engineering, or "ICE," the senior capstone subject in ... , acid burn, or setting your hair on fire. Our final design had an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  as they can because they don't believe in themselves enough or they don ... Internet user calls up a Web search service such as Google or Dogpile. Her ... getting lost or driving in circles," he said. The average Internet user

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  I like to break a mental sweat, too. Missed it by that much.

  

  If you commented any questions in the past few weeks or so, I'm going ... taking a class with a past or future Nobel Laureate. Well, it actually ... (tm Kevin Miu '06), but that's another story for another day. There are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  about the answers. My advice to a high school sophomore or junior ... ." - Professor Eric Lander, Professor of 7.012 (Introductory Biology), Director of ... about me....OR DO YOU?!?! *runs away and hides* =/) does a "Project

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  polarizing class - people either love it or hate it, and they either do pretty well or struggle. The last time I was in a really polarizing class (18 ... -term frosh and barely passed, than I thought. 7.03 (Genetics): It's a 5th East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  grade in the class, or my bitching about all-nighters, that I thought this ... ), 7 (Biology), 8 (Physics), 9 (BCS), 12 (Earth, Atmospheric and ... recitations (or tutorials, in a class that has them). Pretty much any department

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  teacher) or pediatrician or physicist or psychologist." Perhaps at age 21 I ... about this whole "senior" thing. I am a double-major in courses 7 (biology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  did or said. I wanted so desperately to be liked. But by seeing the way you existed -- the way you'd burst into song in public, or break out dancing in the middle of the field, or laugh so, so loudly in the middle of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  instead. i spent eighteen hours that day in bed, not all asleep, listening ... ’t want to go. i’ve never been to counseling or therapy before. i grew up ... fundamentally broken, or psychotic, in some way, or that it was only for people

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your ... of that, as like a way of showing me that they were there. Or like, a ... work, but also have to make, to comment upon that in like one word or

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I ... Class Year Dorm (current or anticipated) Course (current or anticipated) Why you're coming to MIT Short Answer (250 words or less

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 1: Fernweh Wanderlust in the Best Country in the World

  

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 18, 2018