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• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  quad, and I couldn't help but be reminded of last summer. It was my last ... on to discover the even greater joys life has to offer. Earlier this ... obsession with turtles, up to the point of having a collection of them in his

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid ... to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are just three of many terrific math & science summer programs that high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life ... went at the end of last semester before it was time for us to take our finals. One of the nice thing about Tosci's is that they have some pretty

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  3-0-9, 5-0-7, etc. There are also classes of a different number of units. Seminars are normally 6 units. Some required degree courses, like ... numbers are, of course, mere approximations. Depending on the professor and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  the art of persuasion. Now the art of persuasion, whether moral or not ... box, every political speech, and in the vast majority of conversations ... have become vastly more aware of the messages and undertones of which we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  job interview, and I made the HUGE mistake of not studying a campus map ... . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... of college, I searched for opportunities at nonprofit organizations

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer ... feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  enough ago that few of you were reading my blog. A little bit of context ... of Peeto '01 and his lovely fiancee Meaghan. He's one of our zanier alums, and that's from a hall that has a lot of them. I hear, in the

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

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you ... perhaps that's why you'd like to come. What goes on here is nothing short of ... other blog posts (you can even check out my first post, The Land of MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... your past self, what you thought of things, and how little you knew of

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  Between June 1st and today, I have: written 5 versions of my ... average of 3 short essays ...not to mention other random essays for ... coaster of editing, getting feedback, and editing some more. In the midst of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... I have received a lot of questions from prospective or current Minerva ... educational press has been buzzing about the launch of Minerva University

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] Down the River Sharon L. '21 talks Harvard and life paths

  

  awareness on campus. A lot of campus politics seem to have more student-driven input than at MIT (though there has been a history of MIT students ... of overpriced food around Kendall and Central due to the proximity of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 8, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  't tell my parents, I just went with a bunch of friends, shelled out the cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... of a lack of vehicle I should probably hold off on skydiving for a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just some potpourri Zoo! New computer! Cooking! Books! Spine-crushingly tedious work at the lab!

  

  a pretty generous designation for that rather sizable piece of ... -year-old brother, and I am the happy owner of a shiny new Sony Vaio! My new Vaio is blue, which was really one of my major criteria for my purchase: portable

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  ?" Well, you see, of the 11 undergrad dorms, only one, McCormick, is all ... Living Group). With most of the options being coed, the powers that be need ... first half of the question. It's a good school, and I like science, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  and of varying degrees of tired or not, walking forward at a welcomingly ... . I had expected something worse, or at the very least, some degree of ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See #2 Boston Adventure at the Institute of Contemporary Art here) As part of my weekly Boston Enrichment Trip, I ventured today to the ... vessel of content (text and/or illustrations).” This definition encompasses

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  Talent Development is offering high achieving young people across the ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008