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  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  -minute lesson on it! Bring your wackiest topic suggestions, and watch us ... that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice improvising 5-minute classes on these topics, I would love to know what

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  , and passion. So, choose your activities wisely and try to maintain some ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  manage to get a spot on an intermediate dance in Dance Troupe and thus ... least once, to join in on the dance line that seemed to move effortlessly ... move to the beat and the rest is history.   What’s your prior

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of ... , thanks for sticking around, and to new ones, I hope you’ve been enjoying ... impacts have you made on your community, how could you make your community

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  stage to tell us about some of the environmental programs on campus. ESI ... up, Sam McGee, another judge, who hopes to get students more involved ... mattress parts (springs, foam, and polyester liners) to get people to think

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  to make your decision (in favor of MIT). Also, I've added some new ... , and then we waited for Ed and Shane to get back from New Hampshire with ... blog entries from myself will sparsely surface to the light of your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  .01: Introduction to Hacking. A student's grade in 19.01 is based on three components ... about project classes? These tend to be more varied, depending on the ... you're taking one. Because everyone in MIT has to take them, it's more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... Scandinavian furniture from your favorite importer... (I got a new bookshelf! I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... 's magical Sunday morning run destination (we try to avoid sugar but on Sundays ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  here Great job to Kendra, who "developed much of the project content ... " competition, which was held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 16 and 17. To win the P3, a project had to demonstrate how it would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  in the brain. Although the science on this is very new (the papers we ... .” And that has been a lot of fun.   What is on your shirt?  My ... coaster and fort, and freshmen get to help out. It's a pretty cool way to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  me you now have 8 more tabs to MIT Admissions blog posts open in your ... interference to fourth-year students, and a unit on reference frames to third ... GTLs is a great way to explore teaching – you get to try teaching very

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  getting New Year’s tattoos. It’s called Sacred Art, on 4th Avenue, which is ... fulfilling work, if I ever get a handle on it myself. I said this to my mom ... , wait—” “Your dad and I used to play on that set.” “Was it your first

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  If strangers meet life begins you shall above all things be glad and young

  

  me to meet at least five new people each day of Orientation. But he ... three weeks later. No, he meant get to know them - where they lived, what ... one on my flight back to Boston. So I wasn't too surprised when, just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  :25 to be exact. Nonetheless, lady luck was NOT on my side Thursday morning ... nice to meet you!!! Add me on facebook ;) I also met Ameesh, a high ... !) After finally getting on my flight two and a half hours later than

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways ... Better So People Listen More We gave a lot of talks to get better at ... loud and clear, not talking too quickly, can all add to your story. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  , the same night that I had these three things to finish. On shift, I get ... hairline fractures that race across your windshield when it gets struck by a ... longer under my control. Week four was when things started to get hairy

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  scheduled over MIT's spring break to allow current students to be on hand but ... all the events, admitted students should log on to their my ... learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  to put on their best show to get freshmen to switch to their living ... hallway to climbing a rock wall on the side of a student-built wooden fort ... seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  And it’s all beginning…

  

  . I want to see it work the way it's supposed to, so, if you're an ... passive way, by taking what was given to you instead of understanding your ... 's special about your own place, you don't have any valid images with which to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 22, 2005