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  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  receive grades for the regular classes I was missing, and needed to make up for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... an “A” at the end of the semester, a grade that was necessary if I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... Japanese couple who loves to travel (the grandmother, at 67 years, is embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  time travel is overrated conversing with my past self

  

  arrived at MIT, we all gathered in kresge auditorium for one final event ... ."]home[/annotation] in los angeles, sitting at my desk for the first time in a year. it ... ’t be less beautiful or fun for lack of MIT. i don’t deserve to be at MIT

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • November 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  first time eating at Baker. Even after being on campus for a whole year ... Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and ... specials and kosher foods, the hall is open for business for most hours of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  makes for athletics. Despite what may happen at other schools, MIT does ... to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a ... sacrifice academics for athletics, and very rarely the opposite, either. A big

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  away at problem sets, preparing for exams, and pulling all-nighters had finally moved from the present to the past. But, for some reason, this wasn ... ’t be returning in September. At the start of May, the end of my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy at the Treasury Department ... prescription drug coverage for elders, looking at how elders are doing making ... At Friday's Campus Preview Weekend Keynote (10am, Kresge Auditorium

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  reading the blogs for years and visiting campus during CPW, I thought I had ... warmer locale than Boston. Unfortunately for them, I am currently sitting ... , weather shouldn't make or break your decision! When I arrived at MIT, I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  Institut Curie. I spent my time at Curie in a few projects. For my main ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  Tourbot, and popped into random people’s dorms all for being at an ... absorb as much as I could, with a goal (just for fun) of finding another ... ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  graduated high school a year early, and had a few friends at MIT who came in at age 16 or 15. Younger students are not a huge population at most colleges as at MIT, but each year we do admit, after careful review, a number

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  projectionist for the club. After all, I reasoned, college is a time to try out new things. I signed up for a training slot, and before I knew it, I was ... following semester, thanks to the brilliant LSC chair at the time, who

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  make up the bulk of your time and grade for the class. At the end of each ... parts to explore with what worked best for our experiment at hand. Despite ... exactly why certain methods proved inconclusive for the measurement at hand

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  professional school applications, they will always ask for the scale used at your ... write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  easily meet up to hang out in the city. We’d meet up for dinner at my ... following for so long. I had so much fun competing and seeing my friends at ... class at Harvard. I cross-registered for Neuro 130 (Visual Recognition

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Jack of Some Trades, Master of Absolutely Nothing feeling mediocre at mit

  

  some ways, I have. I have no doubt in my mind that I'm thriving at MIT. I ... yesterday on account of being mediocre at MIT. These feelings have been sitting with me for a while. I quiet them most of the time, but occasionally

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 12, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back ... something more modern, more suited to whatever homeowners are looking for ... 's cookies at the state fair. Studying at Caribou after school. Crying in my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my ... shimmering water. I remember ringing the chimes at Kendall/MIT and wondering ... at Chinatown with my SSP friends. I went up to Harvard Station when my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  offices at MIT are. Among them is @MITStudents, an account maintained by Kellen Manning, Communications Coordinator for MIT's Division of Student ... usually at the gym at the same time, and the other day we were talking about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Released TODAY @ 6:28 p.m.

  

  6:28 for people to communicate and talk. At that time, I'm going ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2017 will be available today at 6:28 p.m. (Deep breath) Please don't be crazy and

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 14, 2013