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• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  chessboard mounted to the wall with pieces attached by the magical properties ... rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly one year ago ... , drippy weather at the time with hardly an ounce of sunlight to spare, and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  bogged down by this, we will have to grant the existence of some morally ... bound to the other rail in the train variant could plausibly attack (1) by ... threat to their lives, and that you knowingly introduce this threat by

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  CPW seems to be, confessed that they are intimidated by such a new ... to Chinatown. He proceeded to wake me up by blasting loud, traditional Chinese music from his phone and get our other friends to almost drag me out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  exact, but it just never seemed to work out.  By the time I had to choose ... to MIT certain of one thing: I would never be an engineer. In eighth ... , erased and redrew, over and over again. I remember taking a ruler to add

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Today was dominated by the Meet The Bloggers Party - it was SO great to meet all of you! But before we get to that, the rest of the day... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT ... . (2) n. An inelegant shortcut to get something done quickly, for example ... -style device which appears unlikely to work but does anyhow. (2) A method by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  generated by ChatGPT (for example) tends to be fairly generic and plain ... may want to go into more detail by exploring apps like ChatGPT in class ... -ended queries similar to those typically offered by instructors, responds

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!

  

  -acclaimed International House. < more shameless plug> Video bought to you by yours ... Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will receive with your next big mailing (scheduled to be sent out early May

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day

  

  discussions, and is less likely to feel that she recieves due credit for her ... they are likely to hold differing views when they leave. Women respect ... 's. Women are more likely to continue to medical school. Women more strongly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... Radicals to Alkenes Yes, you read that right. Ozonolysis. And I didn't even really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you

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

  Countdown to Burnout the clock is ticking

  

  side of the road for free water in paper cups then getting right back to ... gym, maintaining my social life, and I still get to fool around on the ... future, coming back to MIT, and feeling a bit lost. He gave me a lot of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... public bath. Essentially the idea is, "welcome to Kyoto; in order to get ... little while. But don't worry! You get to squat under one of those spigot

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  get a free high-five. Good times will be had by all. If you happen to ... ! If you're not, well, to quote Phyo '10, "GET PUMPED!" I didn't get to ... chance. Wouldn't want them to get jealous or anything! So tomorrow, while

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  on her history book and wake up knowing everything. 9. I get to eat ... . Highest on my To-Read List: The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch. It ... Society in America), we get to pick any topic (course-related, of course) we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  -standard size/material envelopes (DHL, FedEx, etc.) get opened by hand. Documents ... to this, electronic test score records are sent to us by the testing ... is ready to be evaluated by the admissions officers. Then, finally

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  of chlorine to personal containers as people get their water from a ... related to MIT. Going to Honduras was a sort of Grand Finale to a class I ... . Right now, I have the chance to take D-Lab II. This class focuses less on

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  want to get technical about it, CPW served no other purpose for me other ... By Shannon Elizabeth Moran '12 You know that feeling when you wake up ... you've had since forever, or you get home after a long trip and just put

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  some pictures. Flying into the Dominican Republic: Getting closer to ... Dominican Republic. It was our third visit (click here to see last year's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.

  

  Bayer in Leverkusen and get back by around 2 AM at the latest. After all, it had only taken us 4 hours for Ling and I to get to Bao's apartment ... DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  , but i'm getting used to it (and was definitely spoiled before)! another ... have been UROPing, starting to work on my thesis, and trying to spend as much time with my friends as possible before 1) we get too busy for each

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017