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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  slice, you may be at a loss for a moment. As soon as you turned your laser ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through ... for something sweet. However, for such a quaint little bakery, there

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At ... space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  study Marketing here at MIT, as well as cross-register for art classes at ... over 50 applications for just a few available spots. The vast majority ... prematurely for them." Yep.  However, as with our undergraduate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  arrangement ever for my jazz class without being completely sure what two of the instruments I was arranging for would sound like in real life. Twelve non ... hours scripting and rehearsing a dry run presentation for 6.UAT (i

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... the founding of MIT's course in that area. For example, Courses 1 ... Site Here's what all the numbers stand for! Course 1 - Civil and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at ... although three of my five classes this term are recommended and required for ... highly interdisciplinary field, especially here at MIT; and it is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... I was going to save this post for whenever my summer job had given me ... students. ("These children are cognitively advanced, but only at the expense

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  sign up for these classes on the P.E. website through a lottery that lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... the Pacific (for example…) The 8 P.E. point requirement can be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  opportunity for a more personal admissions process, that, after all, shouldn ... and interesting people who want to go to MIT. For me, it's a fun and ... the privilege to interview. OK, you are probably scheduled for an

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  House). I got mine at Target for around $110 and it was definitely worth the price. You can also look around your hometowns for used bikes or ask ... of now I think you can make local calls for free. If you're like me

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  's definition for a transfer student." Leo, it is not true that rejected MIT ... undergraduate degree program at another institution. Shammi wrote, "dear matt, how ... for why you admitted -- it's because you are awesome. Don't let any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  important on Monday, spent some time at the public library on Tuesday (I'm not ashamed to say that I adore that place), and picked April up at the bus stop ... world works out here in NJ. We spent Wednesday with my mom and aunt at the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  afternoon, Adam's mom stopped at Walmart and bought us groceries -- hooray for ... Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... friend Chris '09 back to Plymouth with us -- his dad works for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  deeply. I’ve been wanting to have this group project experience at MIT for ... this at all, but this fall I was in 2.009 [link]. We sent that project ... public a LOT of times: for MIT Monologues, where I wrote and memorized an 8

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... be accessed by walking through my room. For all that, I didn’t want to ... train for cross country in the off-season. The new house was in a “better

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... (home of the OLPC) and its description states that it is Intended for students pursuing research projects at the Media Laboratory. Topics include

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  answers to or clearly understand, at least not for a long, long time. this ... first panic! at the disco fanfiction, if not the first serious fanfic i ... sympathy for him, despite him being..arguably one of the worst book

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  that. Hell, I did last IAP with my two classes. At the same time, I narrow my eyebrows. When does IAP start for MIT students? Most classes during this IAP started on January 4th. When do my friends at other schools

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  for; he lives in Maine, and invited friends to go visit at the end of ... (turns out I'm That Person Who Cries For The Entire Ceremony), eight of ... do fun stuff because I believe it's important to make time for fun

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  characterized by only mass, charge, and angular momentum. At MIT, the no-time-for ... entirely trustworthy employee as long as you don't ask me for the time in a ... % of your friends are within 2 feet of you at any time while you're awake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009