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• Blog / MIT Life

  We Saw a Sea Turtle !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  This summer, we saw (and observed for two hours!) a real live SEA TURTLE!!!! AHHHHHH The summer before our freshman year, we were walking with our mom near the shore…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love irl) from the guy who wrote THIS seven months ago. Enjoy :) _,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,__,.-‘~’-.,_ So last time I poured out…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  not. Access it through your MyMIT and submit it by Feb. 15! Now, if you ... then find out about an award afterward? Just email admissions at mit dot

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  for life now. It also has an MIT Mechanical engineering carabiner on it ... around MIT asking for a simple screwdriver or pliers many times--not to ... do it.” The culty MIT soup card--they got rid of this!!! So sad!!! Such

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self ... remind myself that MIT isn't a race, and there isn't anything wrong with

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  -changing potential. Sam Altman (president of Y Combinator) gave a talk today at MIT ... think that's a goal that MIT can very much identify with.  

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  like the way I’ve turned out at MIT, but you always wonder). The ... morning at the GSD (actually a shorter bike ride from my house than MIT

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  ' curriculum developing at MIT (cf. TL Taylor's Networked Cultures, or Abelson ... shaped / informed / affected / inflected by science/technology, and MIT was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don’t have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. This…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  've had at MIT. you may be thinking that we just spent all semester gluing ... justice at all to the wonderful resources at MIT that support assistive

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  the time. I will say: I'm excited for sophomore year at MIT. I ... and closer to the beating heart of MIT. But I'll be sad to leave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria’s capital. I frequent it often for my electronic needs—to replace printer ink or buy new paper sheets,…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  story)   MIT's Marvel Cosplay Department Makes a Breakthrough ... of news we have two groups at MIT who are both working on robotic arm

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class ... grades appear. If you become an MIT student, you will probablylearn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  thumbtacks, bought the summer before I came to MIT, probably during a 2 am trip ... survived (an almost perfect metaphor for tooling at MIT). Cory and I bought ... speakers my dad and I picked out the summer before I left for MIT. We bought

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to act like you’re in elementary school again. You wanna become Doctor Who? Go ahead. You wanna go…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  Cambridge-MIT Exchange (CME) one semester program, which would take place ... school but haven't really had time at MIT to join the Tech.  So this class

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I sketched up this guide on one of my flights after 4 hours of intense analysis. Or…

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  My lack of blogging this semester is largely a reflection of how this semester has been going. It’s been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I’ve just forgotten…

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... years ago I had mine for MIT, and I had no idea what I was doing coming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012