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  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  more time on this class than for any other humanities class I’ve taken at ... something I never thought I’d do at MIT—giving you an intro to my classes ... or systems that use it. For instance, the second week, we focused on

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  home. Forget your sadness, at least for one night: Let's celebrate One ... tagged as “home” on Google Maps, but also a place that truly felt like one ... ’t quite seen anything like it at MIT, let alone in my life at all. i do

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  spaces at MIT, and that those spaces hold room for me to be and to grow. I ... , and rally for floor parties on weekends. At one point, I regretted not ... to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  Google in NYC ☺ With my sister now entering her junior year at MIT, in a ... guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  using them for therapy and squishing them or putting them in funny places ... seniors started a new tradition this year. They made a "senior gift" for the ... form of food that we still call pasta, like chili) for the whole hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a ... to become a better photographer, so I have a bunch of pictures for you ... usually performs in snuggies and Waldo costumes (check them out at one of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  . i'm bad at asking for help from others when i need it, so i end up not ... on thursday morning, i woke up at 9 am, after only six hours of sleep ... .033 Computer Systems Engineering, had canceled recitations for the day. it would

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  class looks at moral and social questions concerning the human experience ... . One of my big pulls for the class, though, were the field trips. That ... contributes for a covenant that goes deeper than just living there

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  -on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day-long assortment of classes for middle and high school students organized by the MIT ... the traits you start with, for example your hair color, your eye color

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ; Questions Omnibus soon) while at the same time, beginng to work with -- gasp! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today preparing for upcoming travels, including some college fairs I'll be attending

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  whole more overwhelming, at least I know it would in the beginning for me ... , for the larger part of my life, I’ve thought of myself as very bad at ... for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  at my 6.UAR (superurop) recitation. we just recorded short talks for ... , along with normal frames. after that, i camp out at my lab for the next ... nicer to myself for needing to take things at a slower pace sometimes. i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  what they want to study or do after graduation, at least for right now ... What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... , so I'll save my leave for another blog and instead focus this one on my

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  the requirements for Course 6-9 here. Every major at MIT requires that ... (Discovering computational neuroscience) At MIT (Course 6-9 is born!) What ... for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... do with [annotation note="at least, for the next decade or so"]my life ... would be too much for me to focus on at once? Totally unpredictable

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  Somalia. At least one student from Iran was already denied boarding a flight ... , called home for more than twenty five years. As a diverse community of ... for boldness, big ideas, hard work and hands-on problem-solving. Our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... that I wouldn't have wanted to switch high schools, since leaving it at ... be able to LARP (or a regular basis, not just at Cons) or act in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  and download the MIT Mobile app: For Android/Google Play For IPhones ... for you.  My friend Jake I. '16 and I got so tired at one point during ... dorm.  For example, as a prefrosh, I found that I really fit in at East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  B. '15 1. If you pay for food at any point, you're doing it wrong. 2 ... campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... lot. My adrenaline was at an all-time high, fueled by the Institue

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  MIT's campus can be pretty daunting for someone first visiting. All the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... student, you might be very confused at this point. But if you've spent

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017