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  Summers spending three at home

  

  internships, travel, stay on campus or any combination of the above. So since ... 't really on either of our minds. And we were lucky enough to be in a position ... staying on campus to UROP that summer, and really didn't like the idea of us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  . (I spent the earlier part of the evening on Burton Two- sometimes ... count the number of days left on the number of pectoral abdominal (SORRY ... think of any other topics you'd like me to focus on, let me know. And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  of 40 musicians  randomly ascending from the lowest note on their ... a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  procrastinated 115 of them until the day before I had an assignment due on said ... hanging on to my train of thought when other people are also injecting their ... different ways to work with people, especially as most of my friends are in

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  of organizations that she’s worked on and for. So she is kind of this ... If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO ...  recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choose my Halloween Costume!

  

  other ideas, or how on Earth I can pull any of these off within the next ... some help coming up with a good idea. Here's what I've got so far ... though I dressed as a witch like 5 times between the ages of 3 and 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  are on this topic, a good thing to keep in mind is that when you do call ... sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... that might take them out of the area traveling, or otherwise be

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• 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 ... of the dark in the eye and paint them on our walls as warning signals ... every day. The lack of student input on this decision that ultimately

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  Research since last fall. Her new research project on relativistic jets is ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  arrangement of the couches on the living room floor. the google home that can ... has been fine. i lived on the boston side of the river last summer, and ... internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  went into a lab in the secret sub-basement of Building 66, pressed "on" on a heater, and let it heat up for 20 minutes while the a computer ... , thermodynamically, electrically, and philosophically. So, twenty hours of MATLAB and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bye Bye Weekends, See You In April I have a love-hate relationship with reading season.

  

  It's that time of year again. I have a love-hate relationship with ... seeing the choices people make, the ways in which people grow, the ways in which context affects everything. I love imagining all of you at MIT

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... critical to enjoy the work that you are doing. In my case, I found a good

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  , four-time IMO gold medalist and Putnam fellow, has his own entry on Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I ... look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PrimeShooter An addictive factoring game.

  

  check out the Math Department here and its plethora of resources. Here are a few other good math opportunities and resources: Art of Problem ... game which actually relates to the name of this very blog. It's like

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says ‘Morning, boys. How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  On Tuesday night, Diana '08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save ... room to find a slice of chocolate cake that literally had my name on it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in the subsequent month, and by the end of September I got a ‘pretty good ... spent most of my free time in October and November polishing up on my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  , it needs me - in many of the same ways that MIT did four years ago - to ... say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong feelings and emotions, the way certain songs bring back the intangible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  . Uglier than anything you've ever seen. On the other hand, you may instead think that it's the most beautiful thing on earth. The reason for this is quite simple: MIT has a middle school crush on weird

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008