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  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  Something unexpected has happened with my classes this semester. Up until this point, my homework has been pretty predictable: read some lecture notes, do a pset, repeat. This semester, none…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  Bonjour de la France! Photo credit: Rebecca Grekin. I’ve spent the last two weeks in Paris with an MIT program called JSF—January Scholars in France. The students of JSF 2018…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  Indian River Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Florida Charles N

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

  Sleepless Nights And how I've been spending them

  

  You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated MIT adage about having to choose two between school, a social life, and sleep. I tend to think that there’s a way to balance the…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT, because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body goes when it’s not tied…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  workout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41N6bKO-NVI Or, if you think that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  .   Designer: Grace A., Alyssa N., Coral B-M. Model: Coral B-M. Title

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  This was my summer of new. Capital S, capital N. Definition: Going out of my way to do, see and experience things that I’ve never done, seen, or experienced before. I got a new job, worked part time in a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  Storytime with Cruft "Cruft, n.: (1) An old piece of computer equipment

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  Years by Kim D. '09 Fake it 'til you make it by Laura N. '09 How To

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries which begin with my eternal apologies for their lateness, and the fact that I haven’t blogged in “forever.” (The earlier…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  Responses to comments: Sam said: Laura, I can’t make my lab printer duplex. Can you come fix it? No. Anonymous said: SOMEWHERE… there’s a photo of a Burton-Conner room also…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  you that you're doing it wrong. Don't be an escalator n00b, be courteous

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  In my last entry, Meagan said, “Anyways, could you please do an entry on some of colloquialisms that you are learning? That would be awesome. :]” Yeah, sooooo, I’d love…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  Machine Shops, Part 2 In case you haven’t read it: Machine Shops, Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive efforts to document…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  Yes, I’m alive. Yes, I haven’t blogged since JULY. I know, I’m a horrible person. Please don’t tell me about it, because I already know, and I feel awful about…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ifestyle.shtml What MIT students do on Friday nights (Laura) http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...n

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  Yikes! It’s been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories- which will be…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  Friday evening was the unveiling of the Class of 2009 Brass Rat. Ring Premiere, as its called, is one of the largest milestones of the MIT undergrad experience. A lot…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007