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• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... away from my family for the first time. The next fall, during my ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  . I had been at my other two jobs for about a week when one of the sound ... siesta, and have left me to use only my eyebrows for expressions (I don't have very expressive eyebrows; for the past half hour I've been mostly

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  Penguins at LSC for the impossible-to-adequately-reiterate low price of three ... sea in Antarctic winter after living without food for 120 days. I set my alarm on weekends. Oh, dear. So, I awoke with a jerk at 8:30 AM yesterday

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... outlines for how to get into MIT are do well in school, be nice and pursue ... months at school, I was so star-struck by all the opportunities and cool

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  in the morning for job #1, due technically at the end of the workday ... setting my alarm for 9:30, blinking and realizing I slept for another hour ... test yesterday morning, and a final assignment for something else due a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  one happy profile out of many different ones at MIT. All I want is for ... at MIT. I nearly fell asleep during a Star Wars marathon. It ... for school. For some reason, the whole sci-fi/fantasy world has never

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  , although the only evaluation for Cambridge occurs at the end of the year in ... thus the pace is certainly more intense for a given semester at MIT ... [Justin '08] Hi everyone. I went on the exchange for 06-07 (so I

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  or at least get you the notes for that day's lecture. 3. PNR I am ... MIT. For those of you that don't know, the first semester at MIT is on ... not so well for others. It takes some time to find your rhythm at MIT

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I love how lunch is at 2, and dinner is at 9. 4. I love how the stores are always open at night. 3. I love Spanish food. Paella. Cocido. Fried

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing Remarks and Variety Show Saturday, April 9, 2011 6:00-7:30pm (Doors open at ... amazing acts at the show: - Chorallaries (a cappella, co-ed) - Jacob Sharpe

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  for the MIT blogs about my experience at CPW" rules. > You have to ... fire, run around campus at odd hours of the night, watch NextACT, and basically not sleep for an entire weekend. Current students/bloggers love to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  conference at Princeton, I read two articles in today's New York Times which ... professor in the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School) and Nick ... . Professors Xavier Gabaix of the Economics department at MIT and Augustin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  action admits -- they had a meet&greet sort of event for students ... prepare me for grades next term (ABC/no record), while still allowing enough free time and leisure. I think the balance is something to strive for. It

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  , lightsabers, trap doors, and moving AT-AT legs, beyond "Don't Cry For Me ... Night in Bespin", and beyond the amazing blue / white / red lighting at ... to see The Aristocrats at LSC next weekend, I'm afraid that this may

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  's physics class at Bergen County Technical High School, students sit at round tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... high fidelity business. For the next 15 years, he designed equipment and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  into a socialist utopia. But, prior to leaving for home for spring break ... yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was ... be experiencing MIT for yourselves this spring, whether for the first

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I mind. Today, for example, April's domestic abilities benefited me ... meal for him: steak and potatoes. For serious. It blows my mind. So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  as "the oldest and best known award for international study," includes ... studies at Oxford. Matthew L. Gethers III, Waterbury [Connecticut], is a senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... quantity. For the purposes of this entry we will apply the concept of LΔ to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007