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  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  .1200[/annotation] was fun! But I digress. This is the first upcoming semester that I ... to Film Studies [21L.011] Archery, for the first quarter of the ... of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  , the computer science MEng is often seen as an extension of undergrad, but I wanted to compare the two experiences, with the caveat that I ... was a nightmare—the day the portal opened, the website crashed almost

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  Sadly, I did not come up with the title pun myself, I saw it on ... me, I won't review the past year on here, but I made a Substack post ... -deprecating way to put it, but I do think it's difficult to pare down all the ways I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small ... in the in-betweenness of young adulthood. As we drove away, I felt closure around what I was mentally calling "the Boston Chapter" of my life

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  we do some memeing around these parts memes i've made so far on campus

  

  I love memes. I can't help it—I'm a Gen Z'er, so I grew up on the ... campus: 1. alternate versions of our mascot, tim the beaver [carousel image ... ="aligncenter" width="279"] hey, that's not tim the beaver! that's kermit the frog

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  VEDA (Vlog Every Day of April) cami edition

  

  , but also I'm using Adobe Premiere Pro after using Sony Vegas for the ... 'm trying to get used to the new interface. I am at no means super ... hopefully I'll improve with time. I'll be linking the videos to my You

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of course, in all the things that we’d like to be able to leave behind. But at the same time, in some ways it’s too easy to for me to feel like the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  switched majors, I'm currently taking both the course 16 sophomore core classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note ... really need to do it, and so you just do the very hard thing without

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  you are particularly special.  Because you are the last one that ... wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... .  You were also not-so-kind, July. You made us move again, for the sixth

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so ... figure out what was the best way to make this video, and settled on doing ... , some will be videos and some more standard posts depending on the subject

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things. To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... . This is what the East Coast looks like from an airplane window: I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action ... check your decision on the 15th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with ... will receive a decision on the 15th, you should visit decisions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a bachelor of science and a master of engineering. In which I make a Voltaire reference and the soup is a metaphor but luckily…

  

  whatever). Put them all in a pot except for the potatoes, cook for two minutes without broth, add the potatoes, and cook five more minutes without ... minutes or so until the potatoes are soft. Whisk together three tablespoons

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  talking about the massive quantities of free stuff (water bottles, shirts ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This ... tried to approach the career fair with hesitant optimism and figuring out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  , as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online ... the 14th, visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with your MyMIT username ... decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and log in with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  kidding everyone... don't worry!) One of the best things about IAP is that you never know what you'll be doing at any given moment of the day. You ... is make truffles! The Laboratory for Chocolate Sciences at MIT is a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Seatbelts, Everyone! Interrupting Radio Silence...

  

  speaks the truth. (for those confused, i must point you to the wikipedia link embedded above...) More importantly, however, let's discuss "The Magic School Bus." (why yes, my generation does love reminiscing about the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  .004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in one of the songs ("I Belong to You") that I really liked, so I sat down

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... class about the art of creating electrical devices which use power ... consuming as it is awesome, so I've spent most of the last week staring at

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  a common misconception that I remember coming up pretty often on the ... from run-of-the-mill public schools, people from the middle of nowhere ... calculus, people whose schools didn't offer physics...obviously the people

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007