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  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  ). UROPs The MIT UROP program is... awesome! As long as you work with an MIT ... these are with MIT WGS lecturers who only spend about 4 hours a week at ... , on the history of early international students at MIT, with a professor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  theoretical devices! As Ian Bogost writes in Alien Phenomenology, Faced with ... : Training The last few weeks have been largely consumed with staff training ... conventionally 'technical' work done in the class which force you to grapple with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it ... ’t apply as a fictional character. You know, the one with the pure 4.0, 2400 ... service. Decorated with medals and ribbons on graduation. You've heard of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies ... appealing, are too expensive for me to justify registering) with a fantastic ... MITx Biology UROP i.e. continuing to work with the wonderful MITx Biology

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  Richard Binzel isn't the only MIT affiliate working with New Horizons. In fact, MIT has had a long history with Pluto: Professor Jim Elliot - MIT ... in the late 1980s. Worked with Professor Jim Elliot and Ted Dunham to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class ... conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of ... underclassmen are matched up with upperclassmen and you are given $5 to go out and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  , who has some background with the course, or a professor/fellow. These ... supervision is paired with some form of work. This work could consist of an ... /recitation leaders you'll encounter, each with their pros and cons. Disclaimer: All of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  the same feeling two weeks ago, while hanging out with my boyfriend's aunt in Montana (long story; just roll with it). She lives in Hot Springs ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Friend the Parasitic Scientist A Random Hall alumnus on reality television!

  

  electrical engineering lab or hanging out with my awesome team mates. Did you hang out with people from the opposite team or were you split up socially? I hung out with some of the members of the opposite team but I got

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  optimizing its performance under certain conditions, which is what we did with ... with cells! But when there are too many inputs coming into the system ... peppered with due to pledge training the new pledges (which just ended, yay

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  was a large white van with A One Bus Inc written on the side, along with ... over, also with cash. The driver put his guitar in the trunk. We heard ... in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ’ll be in Columbia, MO, hanging out with my little brother and his dog ... . She’s had to live with the mess for the past month). But last night, as ... among friends) that I’m actually Irish. This is because I’m obsessed with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  on that later. On Saturday morning, I was helping out with the Math ... —and it’s the perfect excuse for a reunion with friends from summer camp ... , hey, hey, hey, go the other way." It was just like that, with 4 hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  last played the trumpet (I brought it to campus with me, but barely ... , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass ... ; In case you're unfamiliar with the difference between a flugelhorn and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  InternshipPlus assignments so far. I recently had a telephone conference with ... on in a short amount of time. This week, I met with my mentor to give a status report, and I expressed how overwhelmed I was with all the available

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  expected, I sighed with relief and took a LONG nap on my flight from DFW to Boston Logan. My arrival at Logan was welcomed with a myriad of texts from ... wonderful roomies Manu and Jeanne!) and headed to Downtown Crossing with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  conflicts with lunchtime in pretty much every single reference frame. Let me repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert ... to spend a miniature fortune with me, portmanteau'ing two meals into

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton ... hang out some more with the 254 (Burton Conner suites are all numbered

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  , with different point rewards based on color matching. The competition ... with a blue edge on top; additionally, there are "barcodes" on walls ... ://www.youtube.com/user/MITMaslab . Anywho, onto the guts of it all. This fall, three juniors with whom I live

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  thinking about the results of the tests; I was just concerned with relaxing ... . (Sorry if I offended any of you devout Columbus followers with that last ... fraternity would not be a good fit for me.) Anyway, with all the fraternities

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009