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• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... try and picture yourself somewhere else, you won’t be able to. One of ... past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  sounds like. We are given a general prompt and sent on our way: Savannah climates have streams that are dry or have low flow most of the year and can ... imaginations (and engineering skills). Oh, and it is supposed to hold 2000 lbs of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  . "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... fear." the first day of beginner swimming was last tuesday, and i ... underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  . Yet since rarity of skill and rarity of tools are so often and easily ... , Chris Welch, a graduate student and photographer, has posted hundreds of ... . '17, is inspired by the armor of ancient China, and incites discussion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  incapable I am of doing anything at all in the morning) and confirmed that he ... life. Twelve minutes later, suitcase packed and shoes on the right feet ... needed a break. I was running on low, and going to this was exactly what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I ... crashes is just fun! But no, I have no aero/astro bug, of course not!) And

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

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was ... fireworks, and devouring a variety of delectable treats. Here at MIT, a few ... contained a number of pictures, which I am more than happy to pass on to you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I ... that based on my perception of it as a sophomore)  :D From the ... and build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  years, the institutional memory of student groups and dorm culture fades ... to genuinely care for one another, and on that front, I have little ... wing of Next House, 4W, and beyond our normal shenanigans, we planned for

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  admission decisions and the last of the regular action candidates clicked ... decisions, we utilize a wide range of sources to help confirm and validate our ... validation is both necessary and appropriate. Where I think the use of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when ... of music when we've run out of nervous banter and can't think of ... subjected to two hours of torture from us, and the following backlash would be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... own adventure, and there are an infinity of options to choose from ... want to complete. Some of them are easy, and others are a little harder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  my life as being 'on-campus and then not,' but passing other students ... through half of my time at MIT. It's strange, and scary, and ... hours in front of a crowd of 200 screaming people. The energy was wild and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  is 1120 A.D., and the fates of four empires hang in the balance as the world poises on the brink of possible war. Since the very early ... of Greece, Napoleon of France, and Frederick the Great of Germany, had

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For ... morning, I and half of MIT (I kid, I kid) awoke to find an email from Jess

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  , seduce, and hopefully-not-but-maybe-because-people-sometimes-grow-apart-and-that's-just-a-fact-of ... , views of the harbor Teuscher -- chocolates on Newbury Top of the Hub -- views of Cambridge and Boston (food is okay) Tangierino -- yes, hookah bar

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and ... winter, rapidly decaying window of daylight, and my delayed sleep schedule ... and other meals every day, but I didn’t know how much of what I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  Today, some of our applicants learned conclusively that we will not be able to offer them admission to the Class of 2029. The comments on ... you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, even though this

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... -Fair (International Fair), one of my favorite (and yummiest!) events of the year ... a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You Heard It Here First Short Skirt, Long Jacket

  

  , we had Fabulous and Lloyd Banks. And the spring of my freshman year, we ... where they have a bunch of bands come bring down the house at the lovely cost of $0 for all the students. This year's lineup included: Chicken

  • by Bryan
  • March 21, 2006