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  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban ... various community service events, while also allowing us to do all these awesome activities like go to a Red Sox game and explore Boston and eat

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  Hi Everyone, As you've now heard, Mr. Peterson is going offline to ... . So my task is to keep the trains running efficiently during that time. Now, I may decide to paint them a different color, speed them up, or

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  difficult, you can still learn an entirely new way to think, to communicate, to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I ... , here I am, experiencing what it's like to live some place else, some

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... students to explore the Institute through an engineering competition ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as far to suggest that I might try going there sometime (the horror

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions.mit.edu 18,109 students applied for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual scheme and to each other: Maslab - Mobile Autonomous Systems Laboratory

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

  sweatpants. So many students are headed home :) I've decided to use this extra bit of free time to write an entry I wanted to write/post this past ... called 'To the Deferred' - and I want to now add to the words expressed in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  Charles river. In addition to excelling in his coursework, Joey happens to ... passion for physics at MIT. He chose to study here at MIT, but that doesn ... musical gears.     Joey shifted from hardcore genre to a super catchy pop

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  is good news! It means you still have time to get some summer reading ... actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... about you, but I love to be reading a few books at the same time

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  assignments into the two to three weeks before finals) means that I also need to ... we can assume is a constant, akin to death and taxes. Naturally, almost ... taste of what to expect from me over the coming weeks: Famous

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• 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 ... offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her ... semester, it's easy to forget that there exists an entire world outside of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Life On Mars and by "Mars" I actually mean "3AB, Simmons Hall."

  

  When it comes to housing at MIT, you've got quite the array of options. You want to explode things and paint crazy murals on the wall ... one of the cultural houses, like Spanish House or French House! Want to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn ... last November. According to this survey, 85 percent of freshmen said ... confident in their the ability to “function effectively as a member of a team

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action: Decisions Now Available An announcement.

  

  using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  . Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to show it to you, since the Next Big Mailing has officially been shipped

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 Will likes to see stuff at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... Engineering Research Group. It wasn’t hard to find people to help out. We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year late. And now, to hit the road for Vermont. Hope this helps with those ... -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers with 5 significant figures, and the professor did not manage to include a ... SAT II's, which was like 29483 years ago. Unable to bear it any longer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009