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• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  , but that’s not what I got at all. I would put these families into two ... , but the more you slowly realize it is wayyy more than what you see at ... will never grow closer to a person, or people, than when you are up at 3

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  parents at least twice a week and take my garbage out when it got full. Ha ... my dedicated “Breakfast at Baker” hour. Soon my 10am 7.012 (Biology ... yet, at a 65% grade average in the class, I was at serious risk of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... -ray this time) and onwards to China. When I got back to MIT at the beginning

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  At 12:20pm, on December 4, 2013, Wednesday,  I had absolutely no idea ... stared at signs reading “Ashmont”, “Braintree”, “Red Line”. Are they here ... be in prison. -- At 12:25pm, Madison ’17 called me. “Where are you

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  . '15, who is working at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for the second ... -JPL programs.  This entails living and hanging out at Caltech, and then he takes ... work at JPL, although not all of them end up staying on Caltech campus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  " at a gigantic expensive telescope like Chandra (x-ray), Keck (optical ... to observe at, what bandwidth, what signal-to-noise ratio you expect ... wrote a strong proposal, and get time, then at some point during the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... , see how they function, and give them suggestions. At the end of ... brass rat.) Saturday morning, our alarms rang at 5:30, so that we could

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  likes our Facebook profile pictures were getting. At the end of it all, we ... some of my closest friends around town at odd hours, it was hard for ... would've done something else with it. And at this point in your year

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living Like A Native Or living like a boss. Your choice.

  

  that were at MIT, and the slightly more pressing issue of getting around ... feasible option, you'll need some better ideas. Looking at either Quinton ... 're like me and live at Next House, you're really shooting yourself in the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... groups at MIT as humanly possible. By “one”, I mean “you”. (I confess that ... for ATS's first Dim Sum run of the year. Voila! A few t-stops on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  wanted to go look at the fish and Rob '12, Brandon '12, and Dorothy '12 all jumped at the opportunity. We headed towards campus from the dorm and ran ... look at a big fish?" "Ok!" We kept going and saw Sara '12, another

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  MIT student can sometimes make you feel like the only boy at Wellesley ... take the T or the 1 Bus to Harv, which means I have to factor at least 10 ... and as easy as it is to get there, though, at times it can feel like I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a terrible desire to spend money on food at least once a day. This certainly ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  look back at my four years as a continuous system rather than a bunch of ... it did. To start, I will describe two snapshots at two different ... then start my own software company where I developed video games. At some

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too ... .02 (calculus) recitation I wanted I had to switch into 8.01 (physics) at 9 AM. So ... into 8.01 at 11, changed my calculus recitation to 3, and went back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  , how would you describe your first year at mit? relieved that you ... comfortable talking about it, but what's your grade like so far at mit (1st and ... in high school and getting straight b's here at mit? Well now you did

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  extracurricular activity when you first come to MIT, at least until you figure out ... summer and the Activities Midway at Orientation, and you'll get overexcited ... six hours per week (three practices of two hours each), plus cheering at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  .27 (Principles of Human Disease), so if I have to feel like crap, at least I can be ... than you can shake a stick at (7.20, 7.23, 7.27, 7.28, 7.29). On an even more practical note, if you get really sick at MIT (that is to say, not

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for ... works one day a week at Massachusetts General Hospital curing the sick, so ... scientists in the US, twelve of whom are at MIT, including Morgan), that's the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  virtue at MIT. In fact, I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said hard work is the virtue at MIT. MIT is often said to be more egalitarian than ... or not-so-secretly like working right at the edge of our abilities. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006