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

  

  ) software is ubiquitous these days in mechanical engineering courses, a huge ... student’s only sleep in 2 days was 45 minutes lying in the back of an ... problem – the motor for the opening mechanism is drawing too much

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  HOW TO FORGE A DRAGON SWORD and other skills picked up in 3.096

  

  dragon[/caption] On the first or second day of class, the prof showed a ... can see in my drawings, the dragon hilt is quite sculptural, but also ... too loud to be turned on during the work day, so I mostly used a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Wanna Be a Doctor? Premed @ MIT

  

  story :p) II. This is how my last cycle turned out, from June 22, 2010 ... study all day, or simply neurotic overachievers. At the risk of violating ... Berkeley (where up to 25% of the graduating class can be premed). It helps

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5 stories about MIT from non-MIT websites (mostly just Quora, though)

  

  it is really like to spend your days here. Linked below are a few ... various identities, to draw aside the curtain to reveal our secret worlds

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An actual day in the life It's not the most exciting day... but it's a day!

  

  understand your MIT life. 2:30-6:00 -- Lab time! Today I am miniprepping ... prospectives to a day in the life of an MIT student, I have rather uncreatively decided to present An Actual Day in My Life, Fall 2005 Version. 8:15 -- The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  , back and forth to the drawing board. Presentation phase > Share what ... meet with our team to talk about the app we're working on. Every day in ... . Later, my team chooses to meet at 5 every day to get more app stuff out of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear My Old Friend, This is quite possibly weirdest way to introduce myself

  

  hollow is the knowledge that, some day, mom and dad will stop dancing in ... , at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too… one day you will ... will… think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand

  • by ana~
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  , the ones you live with are probably all great, but there might be days ... every single day. Not to mention it’s a pretty good incentive to actually ... people you do see every day too. So I guess just make friends

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new ... relatively distant future: our story instead concerns Monday, June 1, 1925 ... charged with the job of finding the ne'er-do-wells. The next day

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  s and 30s. It was clear that the student body’s activities needed an ... capital arise? The source arrived on MIT’s campus, at the 30th reunion party ... in its north and south walls, to allow for expansion of the dorm. Today

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  classes! That day, dear readers, was today. So here's a post all about ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog post about everything I did that day. I recently remembered this and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  together—a story that starts in the 1980s and ends today. There'll be actual ... " referring to the time period discussed, and "today" referring to the present ... , was far from the CPW as we know it today. A column published in the Tech

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  striking old-timey scenes I found. In total there's around 2.5 hours of video (or 1.25 hours if you watch it all on 2x speed). I'd say it's a ... get back to campus. 3. MIT: Progressions (1969) 25 mins https://www

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  in East Campus waiting for me. In 30 days, I will fill it as a wide ... began. I learned to conserve clothing. Laundry Day became a special ... sometimes 11:21 or 11:22 work just as well. When I rise at 11:22, I don’t get

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

  All the Bloggers’ Personalities! A post about personality tests, part 2!

  

  - moderate (73%) // extraversion - low (30%) // agreeableness - high (78 ... call it a day, an oink and squeal was heard from a little Pig. It got ... (25%), Extraverted - moderate (60%), Agreeableness - low(25

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  So Chance Me Maybe? Hey! I just met you, and this is crazy, but here's my SAT...

  

  math SAT was 40 points below MIT’s lower 25th percentile, and I wasn ... MIT and Caltech were far too nerdy for me, since the ultra-geek culture ... . December 14th was the day. The Ultimate Day On Which I Learn Of My Rejection

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 8, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Rain by any other name lagi na lang umuulan

  

  season ends around May, and the rainy season ranges from maybe June to ... beginning of the academic year, as the Philippine school year starts in June ... mist, where the whole day there'd be this moisture in the air, not quite

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

  Where the Free Things Are A List of Free Opportunities and Tools for Students

  

  .org/pages/wise/  Usually Takes Place: Early October Application Usually Spans: Late June to Early August Description: 3-Day all expenses paid opportunity by the MIT ... : mites.mit.edu/ Usually Takes Place: From (mid-June to early-December for

  • by Richard O. '28
  • January 30, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , but what happened 2 days ago made it all ALL worth it! After almost the ... at Kresge at 5:15pm. As soon as I entered Kresge, I saw 2021

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  . Including today, and tomorrow, and until June 8, when I walk onstage to ... I love it. Also, if your psets are not due on Friday, take any day you ... between 20-25 years of age, and it mediates reactions to your most

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018