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  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  absolutely no sense. We stared at it for the longest time and still couldn ... finished studying and went to bed. I woke up this morning at 8 for a 9 o ... building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  to do. And it was good. I'm working for the month at my UROP, reading ... stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... experiments... and earning 12 units of credit for it. (You can do a UROP for pay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  for you. Finally, one last thing to look at is the Emerson Scholarship ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I've heard that Bartok Concerto for Orchestra is absolutely awesome - I haven

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  No Ceilings next steps

  

  now in my final semester at MIT. I am preparing for graduate school ... semester at MIT. I am preparing for graduate school, and am realizing now ... Part 1: (literal) There are no ceilings. For some reason, in a lot

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  ) did an internship at a policy think tank working on research for ... the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out how to get back on - with the end result that I haven't blogged for over

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  working. Or they work and party at the same time. But at least for yours ... Death Valley and Southern California for eight days for CREDIT, took a ... writing this over IAP, I've shamelessly put them at the end of this post

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Meeting FAQ The answers to the FAQs at our Central Meetings.

  

  I'm in Southern California now, preparing for the following Central ... Angeles/Westwood: Thursday, September 29, 7:00pm; Hoffman Hall at Westwood ... ; Theatre Building at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, Camphor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  audience. (Once you've been at MIT for a while, there are only so many non ... First things first: there was another home football game today -- at ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  doing a UROP (at least for me) is the prospect of applying the skills I ... ’ve been nice, but I believe the whole point for many UROPs at MIT is to ... publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  sleep. I guess she wasn’t around for my first two years at MIT either, but ... . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  reasonable for eight hours at a theme park. Actually, it was just about worth that much to get in the pool at Hurricane Harbor for five minutes. On ... for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What can you do in four years?

  

  , various SIPB classes, and 2.670. I've been at MIT for three years. Some ... you. You won't. Even if you stay at MIT for grad school, you won't. Just ... Okay, now for the next post addressing one of your requested topics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  , but a lot of people would probably laugh at me for being so weaksauce ... same classes, at least you’ll be there for moral support!). Then there ... it for senior year – I’m not a big fan of change. I alternate between

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  at the 2018 American Solar Challenge (ASC). Our newest vehicle, Flux ... crossed! Unbelievable Scenery at Scottsbluff, NE PC: Ashisha Persad On the ... potentially useful item we had in our shop at the Edgerton Center- no matter how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  the band. These did prove useful for our director at the Anything But ... costs just about $2. And then you look at it and you're like, "$2 for yams ... statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  For those of you who know me well, you'll know that I did not cook at ... nice Snackpass ambassadorship, for sustenance. Now, living on my own with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  its rehearsals here, Next Act uses it for shows at the end of the ... I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... wrappers added, for good measure.[/annotation] I quickly piled all of my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  a term at MIT. For some of you, this might entail working a part-time at the mall scooping fro-yo for snotty little kids or watching people ... you to ome(at)mit(dot)edu * For non-logistics-related questions, and if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus weekends for some crazy consulting company, you're probably going to end up ... of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005