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• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since ... intelligence instead. I went to a coding camp over the summer that I really liked ... school go to for pursuing pre-med. It's difficult to find a physics

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  't remember making a --" At this point, he was abruptly interrupted by a sharp ... to...?" Luciana glanced up hopefully. "Oh! Amore mio, I promised you a ... . Afterwards, let's go to Luigi's and you can paint me there. Make it a good one

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  [by Patrick '09] I am another Biochemist coming from MIT to Cambridge ... , Biology as conceived by Cambridge is about knowing a vast set of facts ... not know how to use a pipette: Cambridge teaches passion. It assumes

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  subway lines and a few major roads. "Hmm," I thought. "If I can get to Mass ... , even though it took more than half a term, I was able to get card access ... her being in Pasadena, I don't get to see her that often, so I figured I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... a SaveTFP (which stands for Save This F***ing Place) event to get free ... given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  presented to prospectives as like "here, this is a fun thing that may ... students have joined a mailing list and Slack channel to work on ideas. I don ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  community can get a free flu shot by appointment with MIT Medical. There will ... endemic to birds, humans, and pigs. The 2009 strain was officially a ... hospitalized, and between 8,870 and 18,300 people died due to H1N1. Influenza A

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  organized by the Alumni Association, which features a bustling community of ... with the Alumni Association to create externship listings that might be a ... to internships in that you meet people in a field you might be

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... has been as close to a Hell Week as I’ve ever been. You might be wondering, "what is a Hell Week anyway?" Excellent question. According to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... dying to publish their findings quickly to get the credit for the ... some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  ; Connecticut -> New York. We also stopped by New Jersey to practice before our ... for her expert navigation and driving skills and getting us to and from New York safely!"]just as fun![/annotation] It was, however, nice to get

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  undertaken by prospective students that ultimately leads to a college choice ... -written applications) to a largely digital one (with applications and supporting ... is important and what you would like for a reader to know. Student: Oh

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... , acknowledging that I wouldn't be able to attend that morning; Ashley has a rule ... session. The MIT PE department lets you make up an absence by attending a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  Killian Court (the big grassy quad by the Great Dome) to fire birds at pigs ... ) go to market; they present their products at a huge event before ... to fire I'm sorry, but this is the best action shot I could get -- it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus – mainly Manus! Hmm my hands feel itchy...

  

  escapes from the tennis courts to a vast Briggs Field trademarked by the ... . -- 1 AM on a Friday night, I decided to break out my art supplies and ... change from day-to-day, hour-to-hour in fact – one moment, all you see is a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 29, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  like a simple question but it can get harder to answer over time because ... there are just a whole lot of stories to reminisce about and tell over and ... yourself?” The contrast in the title is a catchy way to describe the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News ... seemed to get more and more popular. And then, one day, I stumbled upon ... the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  like trying to get a stray cat to come closer. sometimes your efforts and ... to get a series of them yesterday. i listened to them on my walk to campus to pick up my monthly t-pass (since you can get a discounted pass as

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  figure out which IFAFs to do due to a delay in getting the budget finalized ... opportunity to spell a little something that we hope gets put on the http ... close knit and tend to spend a lot of time with themselves. Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... I appreciated having a non-judgemental environment to experiment with ... part of me still fears not being able to hold down a Real Job in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022