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  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and ... MIT so far. The project is involved with the Transiting Exoplanet

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster ... . Blue Bikes You are not to be confused with the people that own a bike ... with your MIT Sloan backpack bumping along with you as you try to make it

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  environment filled with vicious, competitive peers. When I got into MIT, they ... ’ve never really known how to deal with others’ envy, and it feels weird to ... -write a graph theory paper with an established mathematician, which was then

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  ’re conspiring on with our old friend Ceri R. ’16, that is not live yet, but which ... that, we conducted qualitative research with students, faculty, and staff ... , compelling, unique when augmented with 'tech'  Participatory, dynamic, open

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  Diving In transforming myself into a cs bro

  

  I've always been very open and honest with my struggles with computer ... around with it for 10 minutes and finding it horribly disgusting. But with ... had talked with Raymond previously about "making Linux pretty" since

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 23, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  "[/caption] I spent Tuesday evening with the Vietnamese Student Association (VSA ... quite a lot and met a lot of great people! I came from a high school with ... heritage with the VSA – it's great to have a place where I can eat familiar

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  interact with regularly, so this is really only a snapshot of the diverse ... connected with, and the ones I hope you will connect with. Things that make ... trying new things! From rock climbing to coding Killian court, even with

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  “Greater Boston Area”) While at MIT, I’ve been able to hang out with a lot ... holds Utopia, a boat cruise event, with Harvard Chinese Students ... ’ve even had the good luck of becoming friends with Basia Galaj, a (talented

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  internship, or come back to school with valuable industry experience if I did ... a city I hadn’t explored before, AND work 8-hour days with weekends ... placed with and the guidance of my manager. I was fortunate in that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about the last two; I just started with ‘relax’ and ‘recharge’ and then felt ... externship listings, including positions with alumni working at Apple, Google

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  with spontaneous trips, future-job-preparation stuff, and lots and lots of video. I was definitely busy, filling up most hours of my days with ... fulfilling busy, rather than one laced with sadness or inadequacy. Those

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant Stuff at Simmons (along with some torso-sized bowling pins and a handful ... hang out with me sometime today, here are some of the places you might

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  wasn’t a couch potato by any means; I loved to go fishing with my ... shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... is working together with farmers and credit union members to build ... night in Kampong Thom to do some work with our community partner FLIFLY at

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  option is not mutually exclusive with (1), (2), or (3)] (2) and (3) are ... whiteboard in French House; they're always covered with a combination of ... PEOPLE WITH ORGO!!!!" I guess Particularly Enthusiastic Chemist didn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk ... with espresso clouds. Did you know that some people got into MIT recently ... , except that it starts with a strategic and misleading adverb. One of my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... up to the mountains with a Taiwanese health outreach group (think ... . For three days, we set up mobile health stations (complete with

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time--building my own 4x5 pinhole camera out of foam core and playing with the Student ... price range for a field camera with decent movements. The bellows alone

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  Infinite corridor with the satisfaction that you could return to the campus ... my short 3-day stay. I already knew a bunch of people and hung out with ... told you that MIT is filled with nerds who are ultra-competitive and just

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  've been helping out with research for the past two semesters, today just ... what do with. I just hope he doesn't complicate things any further by ... PhD because he could kill me with his bare hands" kind of way? Maybe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005