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• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  like VS Code or Google Docs, we'd tell him to do it tomorrow. It came to ... of the intern coordinators sent the invite to everyone else. On the ... were informed in early March, ten months before we had to move in. We had

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Story of the 5 Wits A look back on my externship at 5 Wits

  

  Once upon an IAP, there were 5 externs* who were lucky enough to be selected to work at a magical company called 5 Wits Productions, where many adventures awaited them. For you see, engineers at 5 Wits got to bring

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  I would love to take credit for the brilliant entry title, but ... time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there will be no extra content to this post. Kidding, of course. I've been

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  unanswered questions, let me quickly answer them before heading off to the ... grading system it would be unfair on me to compare my grades here to those ... , and any supplemental materials helping us to understand those grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Tension filled the air as people were ushered in to 6-120. Scientists dotted the MIT campus, urging people to get to 6-120 as fast as possible ... final prototypes to an audience of industry representatives, parents, and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Anne Frank. Two quick anecdotes minus three quick answers equals negative ... Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... on the chalkboard as a reference. In his words, the quiz was to "test

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  form of pork I find to be often more delicious than bacon? Chinese barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google images seemed to suggest that's what it's called. You know, the delicious

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  . While all your CS friends are going off to Google and Facebook, making six ... with Writing to form CMS/W, which includes the Science Writing program ... . According to CMS/W: The curriculum in science writing is designed to enable

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  look like? This is a challenging question to answer, because the variety ... whole point of going here.  There are 22+ majors, and if you do a quick ... people tend to make great teams.  These are the people I get super excited

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

  birthday celebration. Alumni and community from all over are making trips to Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our ... months now to gather all the history and artifacts they can muster to make

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  If you weren't aware, REX (Residence EXploration) is going to be in ... time, that EC had to get a licensed structural engineer to sign off all of its construction plans in order to obtain Cambridge building permits

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing! !!!!!!!

  

  . aaaah - i just went and slapped samvaran some more me: is he going to be ... to Ram '13, we - along with Pallavi '12 and Krithika '12 - were about to go sailing for the first time ever :) MIT Sailing has various days

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  I was browsing some of my old blog idea Google docs the other day ... time to do anything because I was [annotation note="this was a mistake ... semester, when I made more reasonable choices, I would have more time to do

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  our experience doesn't seem to be as common, and this is technically our last undergraduate summer, we wanted to outline what we’ve done in each ... anticipated feeling burnt out, and really wanted to give ourselves a break. Plus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  my feet to quickly realize that I don't know much of anything, really ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living Off Campus I moved off campus last year and rented a house with some friends who were…

  

  here all along -- I just had a busy fall semester and decided to take a break from blogging. I'm here now to talk about one of the big changes I ... were graduating (and thus, had to move out), I realized I didn't want to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  trip to Rome or Sweden, and I'm not going anywhere like Chocolate World. (I'm having a hard enough time convincing Adam to go on a post-graduation trip to the Bahamas -- he's been raised in a hard-core ski family, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  The most exciting series of words you can ever hope to hear out of an ... exciting, because MIT students take "awesome" and "we can" to a whole new ... , since she's always loved musical theater, began to throw around the idea

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , thank you to all of the parents out there, and I hope you'll say a quick ... to meet two parents (hello!) who follow the blogs. They tell me that ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  bags and took a very sketchy cab ride* to the airport. I made a quick ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014