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  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  's faculty - and what's actually here on the website is only a small sample of ... distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  any college that I’ve ever heard of. Name a country, and MIT has a ... immersion. For example, my start-up’s Slack channel and some of their variable ... another line on your résumé, a language immersion, and free travel and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  deep talks , strange person

  

  boredom and copious amounts of free time; binge-watching TV shows alone ... to message and video call different groups of people. Part of it might ... out on anything at my dorm. At home, though, I don't have that issue

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all ... /clubs/aspects of MIT that I don't think many people know about and should. So, here ... their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  and half of orientation, I lived on the floor 3C. My dorm room was ... On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  CASHIER: That'll be $12.59.. again. on the way home MINDY: Hey, Jess! ME ... .. them. Both of them. WOMAN AT THE CASHIER: Right. That was you. on the ... last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall ... ’ll never end: you wake up on Monday and know that you won’t be able to take a ... University, the kind of stuff they brag about on admissions tours. But then I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  little reflection post on everything I've learned and taken away. Firstly ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... supporting and empowering teachers We eventually settled on removing barriers

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  formal sit-down dinner like you see on TV. All sorts of food is set out and ... The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... the parade on TV. We never sit down and watch the whole thing, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  focuses on the social and cultural aspects of networked life through ... on the cultural, social, economic, and political aspects of internet ... complex ideas, both within any given class and throughout the course of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  basement of building 33. And this year, for the first year ever, the Aero ... organizations on the West Coast: Boeing, Blue Origin, JPL, SpaceX, and Northrop ... facility is spacious and unassuming (not to mention home to a small archive

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... , but so it goes. And now, more isoclines! Next entry: pictures of Senior House. And by pictures, I mean photos of murals and my friends

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  .662 Shaping the Future of Work, a blended online and on-campus course that ... students online on edX, who are workers with a median age of 32 (and the ... and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and whens of financial ... from the program, and more. Discussion will center on the experiences of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  moved before the memory making parts of my brain could actually store any ... absent on this list was Meijer, the local mid-west grocery store and the ... the glass and ooh and ahh at the marvelous creatures. Of course, as we

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2017 Graduates from MIT

  

  Technology. Over the next few hours of pomp, circumstance, and Tim Cook, 2 ... years, we, as MIT staff, have come to know and work with so many of them ... covered, I wrote a very sentimental letter to the Class of 2015 on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  It’s cool to care but maybe care a little less

  

  One. In October 2017, I left home and lived on my own for several ... the Guild and Squares are both in the back of my mind, constantly. Any ... . On one level, I still enjoy being a member of hall and participating in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  a hand on top of my head and pushed me underwater, to teach me to blow ... I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... , over the internet. It really freaks your mom out when she comes home and ... , literature, religion, art, politics, and economics, with a special focus on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  ;m sitting at home while writing this. Most of the other people on the ... differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final ... rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008