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• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  and the bloggers of this site. It gives me chills just to be there in ... ’s a real thing) to trying to get to find classes when buildings 26 and ... really, really smart, accomplished people tell you that you’re about to be

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  impressions count. Your EC only has a very limited amount of time to get to know ... . Everyone at MIT genuinely wants your interview experience to be as low ... sometimes it can be hard to find a convenient time and place for your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... there, for your amusement. Consider it an excuse to friend me. The Last ... get to just relax until fall travel starts up again?" Not exactly. May

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  face stuck on my screen. 10) But time to post this entry and get back to ... I had literally never taken a screen shot until I got to MIT. Seriously. I guess I just never had needed to or something, but once I got

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  signs last Sunday, coming out to downtown San Francisco to support the ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this ... was actually a cupcake. Practically all of the interns managed to roll

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  working (some would even call it playing) with my team. To help us get to ... in Mumbai to get a rare opportunity in project planning on a major oil ... options separately to weigh your choices against your values.  This

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  Manned space exploration has been limited to fairly short missions to nearby sites such as the moon and low Earth orbit. For NASA to carry out ... takes a while to get used to. It is important for astronauts to adapt to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some ... . Sometimes, your energy is spent, and you need to be helped back to your feet or propped up. Your friends take care of you when you need them to, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious ... !) Unfortunately, I'm not going to sing it for you. Sorry, but trust me, you're ... Makes it hard to get where you want to go Boston Rain Come listen to my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  coronavirus, one year later recounting the craziest ten days of my life

  

  since getting kicked off, I’ve tried to turn it from the jumbled mess of ... are much longer than the others.) Of course, things continue to get ... of preparation and hard work. Not getting to see the smiling faces of

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • March 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  obligation to test and publish the potential outcomes of something you’re doing ... in case you didn't know, it's currently independent activities period (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  , this conference is dedicated to the study of human vision—figuring out ... behavior in response to visual stimuli to neuroscience experiments to tease ... Bylinskii, helped organize. Speakers talked about methods to approximate where

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  soundcloud. whenever we get to do that :( 2019 radio - ...songs i listened to ... music as much, which is sad. i'll try to get back on that. God of War ... 's propensity to put immense pressure on its kids to pass tests, succeed, and get

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... older couple from Bruges who are going to spend the next few months

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  attachment. It's easy (especially to do a UROP summary), fun, and you get to have your work published for all to see!!! I'm on the editorial board and ... *Why Do Insects Stop "Breathing" To Avoid Damage from Too Much Oxygen

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Oh look, an update

  

  much computer clue as I'd like, and I'd like to get more. The technical ... your time well it could be death by that form of Java too. It lives up to ... -related applications. All course 9 students have to take a probability and statistics

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  . I googled "how to write an ode" but then got distracted by one of my ... anymore), so now in an effort to get this post up, I'm just going to wing it ... 's student printing and copying service hub. I have come down here to get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  ways of thinking. Your desire to skip classes increases exponentially ... the initiative. Don't be afraid to change your mind. It's great to ... Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  talent at building tiny airplanes led to him being offered a job at Google ... Hi, I’m Mollie! I used to go here. I was one of the OG bloggers ... went to another school in Cambridge and got my Ph.D. in Cell and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016