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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  vague memories of him making and offering me cookies but I am rude and I ... ’s raining gently, so I am marooned on a bench under the roof of the laundry ... . Cory is reading a book (I think it was One Hundred Years of Solitude). I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to offer. And, of course, there's always Mystery Hunt to look forward ... Over Winter Break, whenever any of my friends or relatives asked me ... Cambridge anymore, Toto, when I - realizing that none of my relatives know

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  of things that are making me happy but there were these pesky exams ... Growing up there wasn't a kid at school who didn't dream of robotic suits and futuristic extensions of the human body, whether it was Doctor

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  assume that I am pre-med, or else shudder at high school memories of ... 't either of those things. Biology is an incredibly challenging, multi ... majors: 6-7, 7, and 20. I am fascinated by the workings of complex systems

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  ’s 48 degrees and I can’t feel my toes.) I’m not the only one – many of my ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) was ... on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• 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…

  

  motto of the Institute. People who don't understand the concept claim that ... Scatterred throughout the years are probably dozens of blog entries ... like any good MIT student, 10 days of that has driven me absolutely

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here ... prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  What is MITES Semester (formerly MOSTEC)?

  MITES Semester (formerly known as MIT Online Science, Technology, and Engineering Community, MOSTEC) is a six-month hybrid learning STEM and college preparation experience, free of charge, for rising high school seniors. The
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  .671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with you the following, which was the first page of the background reading ... group of people in a pub in London, and when they find out you are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  to take advantage of the fact that New York is a cheap bus ride away ... The month of January felt like a whirlwind this year – it was filled ... of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  organized by students — at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology." And ... I think I get my need for notes from my mom. Every day of my childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  Ever since I first visited MIT in the summer of 2007, I knew that the Institute was quite literally like no other place on Earth. All I did was ... talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  handed me a degree progress sheet that showed I was four electives short of ... stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -cultural medicine and issues of embodiment in post-traumatic stress disorder, is ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Introduction to Astronomy Looking for Care of Magical Creatures, try 21H.909

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  "Massachusetts" in "Massachusetts Institute of Technology", replacing banner put up ... of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the ... friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Major Crisis haha get it..cause..yeah,

  

  comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I'm really excited to be ... year for the past four years, just out of my mom and I's pure love for

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus ... stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  degree for free. However, the purpose of the visit today wasn’t for a class ... stretch of months filled in with nothing but the assigned institutional jobs ... have obtained the degree. It would have made a world of difference for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013