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MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins
So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer of snow and the crew team is stuck inside the boathouse while our beloved river is frozen… -
Blog / Admissions
The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.
The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at http://my.mit.edu. Complete your MIT Midyear Report now.The MIT Midyear Report is an online form that is… -
Blog / Admissions
Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday
Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing documents to this Wednesday, February 1st, at… -
Blog / MIT Life
Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan
D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students… -
Blog / Uncategorized
Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order
The other day I tried to hard-boil eggs for the first time. The first batch came out underdone, but a friend gave me a different method and the next batch… -
Blog / Events
LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.
What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT’s Division of Student Life,… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity
UROPs. You’ve heard about them before, but here’s a refresher. At MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of undergrads who would love the opportunity to… -
Blog / Admissions
Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete
Hi y’all – Quick update for our Regular Action applicants. As Matt posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year.… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia
D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students… -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours
IAP stands for many things. For those people just chilling on campus, It’s A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It’s A Pain. For Chris M.… -
Blog / Events
Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?
You’re sitting in your living room, one eye on an Agatha Christie novel and one eye on the TV, which is showing the latest episode of Sherlock (you have trained… -
Blog / MIT Life
Needles That was anticlimactic.
I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should get a haircut.… -
Blog / Personal Travel
In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced
Imagine a field where by day children play soccer among smoldering fire pits, grazing water buffalo and men hauling logs. Occasionally, a group of American college students come along and… -
Blog / Events
Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good
On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton Center, where I work most mornings. As usual, I looked up in Lobby 7, more as… -
Blog / Athletics
MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts
A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise… -
Blog / MIT Life
An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow
How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences
I am currently in Washington, D.C., to attend my first Transportation Research Board meeting, and then a conference on sustainable transportation called Transforming Transportation. Flying down was a bit nerve… -
Blog / IAP
Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP
IAP has been a time of very… well, different learning than I had during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly productive, tiring and relaxing… -
Blog / Personal Travel
624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home
The last time I wrote a post as I was flying at some undetermined altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can say with complete…