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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when the farthest thing on my mind right now is MIT. BUT - I feel like if I ... from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  cartoons. This week, I had the opportunity to relive some of the good ol ... presented by 5-WITS Childhood Reference: Legends of the Hidden Temple, Blue ... -WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today ... for them, or to do a summer internship. The companies span the spectrum ... organizations like the Peace Corps and Teach For America. Here's a smapling of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... would fit at MIT - something the paper application alone can never match

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  -illustrated incarnation of MIT’s mascot Tim the Beaver']Tim[/annotation]has become a ... ’s hard to go through the semester without seeing him, from a poster in the ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS ... would be Literature; I love the department here. Sure, it's "small

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  This post is brought to you by the 20 hours of sleep I got this ... up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... our Leadership Reaction Course lab that we did. The goal was to

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  came out, chances are they'll gloss over the ants-in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  History Favorite things about MIT: Personally, I love all the stereotypical things about MIT--the hacks, the zany, nerdy students building (and destroying) cool things, crazy but strangely compelling stuff like the Time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  I wrote a blog at the end of last summer subtitled "so many different ... , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was ... 's something that followed me throughout my freshman year, all the way through

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like ... ). Course 6-9 (Computation and Cognition) is a joint major between the two departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

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

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly ... 't know, there are MIT clubs all over the world and they're basically for

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.

  

  endeavor was apparently the girls who hang out in the Harajuku shopping ... to the 44 people who checked out my blog yesterday even though I haven ... reading Guns, Germs, and Steel that the QWERTY keyboard that Western

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed the way I look at the world. Experiment after experiment has confirmed ... was able to see these phenomena with my own two eyes, in the flesh

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  if you’ve hung around the blogs these past few weeks, chances are you ... lined up with mine, i have countless more who spent the month on their own ... nights spent laughing on the floor of someone’s room. rather than just

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  The MIT Monologues (MITMo) is a spinoff of the play The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler, talking about the intersections of sex, gender ... genders. Before, the cast performed both pieces from the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last [annotation note="(realistically, one week)"]two weeks[/annotation] of the ... [annotation note="the newly renovated library located on the east side of campus

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  i (don’t) want to be alone on loneliness

  

  about how the strongest ongoing theme is coping with contradictory ... ? for example: in confronting the self, i discuss how my feelings of ... feeling like my life repeats the same problems, and yet i'm so worried that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  one. The last time I posted was over two months ago. I wrote then ... I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021