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• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope ... many things to-do. The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master. [caption ... carried through the crossword by my friends[/caption] I'm hosed this week

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  ="going through the archives, it looks like I missed sophomore fall, which is fine ... (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major ... and debate about various things happening in the media at the immediate

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  hiring frosh. And in the case that the program is freshman and/or sophomore exclusive, the internship tends to be more competitive and difficult to get. Background Prior to coming to MIT, I had one internship before, but the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... mom, cleaning around the house, meeting up with high school friends, spending time with our family, and also speed walking. During the semester

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  a big window in our house and i sat on the couch in front of it and watched the colors in the sky changing.   soon after that i was in an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  like? >:( The backstory explaining this is relatively simple. A friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  were released. On the drive home I considered calling someone to check my ... got home I brought some luggage in to delay the inevitable, or maybe I ... back downstairs to tell them I got in to the other. The feeling was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  -kg mollusks in each jar. The local dumpster cat gang has raided one jar ... out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your evil neighbor, a competing mollusk hunter who owns the dock’s only

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist ... ). Unfortunately, this means that we will not be able to admit anyone off the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  You may have noticed that blogging has slowed down a bit over the past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  : decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you ... in. As has become tradition, the MIT admissions decisions are being ... Preview Weekend in the mail next week. This year, we received 17

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon into near space, will be photographing the spreading oil slick in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back Why is it that breaks go by so quickly?

  

  where the last two weeks went - and getting excited about IAP :) As Jenny ... , another is implementing a project in the Philippines, and yet another is in ... abroad like the aforementioned individuals, my first IAP still promises to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn't want to bring the nice bicycle I had at home, which my grandparents had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall and I were assigned? Force Gauge. Excellent. The lab that most people

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  ...Referring to the application fee:“Full name of the applicant must be on the money order’. How can I indicate that someone else is providing the fee? A: Just make sure that YOUR name appears on the money order! Bugs Bunny, Santa

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... wandered all about the MIT campus, past Athena clusters, through the Infinite, and into the tunnels. She seemed pretty happy when she left: (L

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  Halloween. I then ignored all of your votes and went with the most popular ... confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George's Day ... another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008