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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  Friday frenzy and buying new stuff, I decided to take a different approach ... stories we wear." - Worn Wear Buying new stuff is fun. It provides that instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  on the floor of New Vassar. I have absolutely no recollection of this ... I finished my first semester at MIT. There's so much to write about. I could write about my IAP UROP. Or the Infinite Magazine. Or getting

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  , or even months, before things get back to normal. Please know that for ... with your individual circumstances, whatever they may be. Get in touch ... hesitate to contact our office if you have any questions regarding your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  : Rate my day? Um, what do you mean? Me: Like on a scale of your choosing ... . Dora: On a scale from super chill to 0 chill. I don’t know. On a scale of ... direct transcript for your reading pleasure: Me: Tell me about your day

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  there to see Boston and Cambridge from a completely new perspective. ... police officers (who unfortunately could not attend) to see the place where ... tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  to your second year than the "sophomore slump", and certainly much more ... This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  th, 2020 Last year, on Saturday, December 19, 2:14 PM CST, I drove to ... turned the radio back on. Vienna was coming to a close. There wasn ... In the near future, MIT Admissions will release the EA decisions. To

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  act, be your own person and make good choices. I'm here to tell you how ... pressure isn't always bad. Listening to your friends, and letting them affect ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... variation on this method is to write all the chunks on notecards, shuffle them ... yourself stuck on, say, a college essay - maybe it's time to invest in some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  plans for the fall, most people reading the FAQ immediately scrolled to big-ticket items like "who gets to live on-campus next year?","how much ... on the Internet. Due to my lack of unboxing-video know-how, I didn

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  from all over come to MIT to compete to solve insane brain teasers with hopes to find a coin hidden somewhere on MIT's campus typically over the course of one weekend. Freshman year, some friends and I decided to

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to ... focus on three technicals at once. I want to commit to never again taking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  (especially med school), they will recalculate your GPA to fit into a 4.0 scale ... subway stop that Jill had to get off at during the subway scene with Ben ... Jill would have to get off at South Boston...generally, I don't think MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... that MIT doesn't admit you based on your intelligence. They admit you ... to get stolen Person 3: Yeah, this is why no one goes around hanging

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  and I are working on measuring the power it takes to pedal a rickshaw ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Over Again Applying to college all over again.

  

  've just started to get exposed to interesting topics in bioengineering that ... starting with mechanical engineering and now going on to PhD programs in ... later. I plan on doing the same with grad school apps; I'm going to put my

  • by Bryan
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs while running down to the Senior Haus lobby to pick up the Indian food I ... may comprise more than 20% of the whole. Try to assemble your "text

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Film! [by Nathan '14] Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

  

  assignment. I was trying to capture the sunset on film. We also explore ... growth. I’m not going to give it all away, you should get ahold of a ... .064J/21A.339J (Documenting Science Through Video and New Media).  

  • by ARTalk
  • November 28, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this ... requirement of being on an f1 visa. in theory, i should have less work to do ... we get to critically examine programming languages from a design

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Bill Gates It looks like you're trying to inspire philanthropy...

  

  Bill Gates was on campus today to speak about the need for innovation ... the Best Way to Make a Difference. Sadly I was unable to get him to ... to look at the work of the D-LAB, Jameel Poverty Action Lab, One Laptop

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 21, 2010