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Blog / Internships & Externships
Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5
Museum"]Building N51,[/annotation] a huge space with all sorts of tools -
Blog / Challenges
A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths
very v e r y l o n g d a y s. And while leaving my dorm at 8:30 every -
Blog / Events
Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange
I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn’t really something… -
Blog / Admissions
I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!
My old computer and I had a complicated relationship. We spent three years together, and they were three of the most formative years of my life. I bought my computer… -
Blog / Academics & Research
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… -
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… -
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… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Trip Report: ISEF 2016
Indian River Regional Science and Engineering Fair in Florida Charles N -
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… -
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… -
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 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion
. Designer: Grace A., Alyssa N., Coral B-M. Model: Coral B-M. Title -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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… -
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… -
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 -
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…