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  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  's one answer I found: going to lectures by the super cool people who come ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... first thought in my head will be the study group I had to get me through ... all the Ivies? Well, for one, CPW. Go to CPW if you get the chance, it

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  time by himself,” the woman next to me mutters. Hour 71 As we get ... my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to ... , and I get off the bus to find a seat on coach. I'll be here until

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  ? Sounds crazy, right? – because you want to get away from your parents as ... or class ranks or gossip or student club presidencies to get in the way ... just returning to school in the fall, you finally get to work on that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pluto Flyby and how MIT was involved

  

  every kid around the world,”  said Binzel, according to an article in CBS ... . Then worked to map out the dark and light areas of Pluto by measuring how ... , led by Jim Elliot, used stellar occultations to deduce properties about

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  outlived multiple debit and ID cards. This was given to me by the beloved Mr ... to me by Dora, with the sunscreen~), a coupon for Darwin’s (a cafe in ... often buy parts ourselves and get reimbursed later), so, it’s nice to have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  passions. I don't feel the need to lie to myself by claiming this was out of ... , that by attending a more prestigious school I might be able to help more ... at least within myself so I don’t need to hide. In Mockingjay by

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... to get from one side of the road to the other. Because there aren't any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  't get enough), I made my way to Tech East, one of the sections of CES. The ... startups in completely different industries. I didn't get to see much since ... phone overnight and was sitting by an outlet next to the TechCrunch panel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  public, are also invited to a celebration of the day hosted by the MIT ... today, Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier sent an email to ... opportunity to "acknowledge Indigenous Peoples as the traditional stewards of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i go to, and where the bus stops are, and there are a couple neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... excuses, and this Thanksgiving trip was the catalyst I needed to get started ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  Google when you search it up, way after its more famous homonymous beach ... make the stuff discovered by the research team into real things people ... excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  drink water. (Speaking of which, here’s a friendly reminder to go get ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... drastically different from high school. You get closer to each other a lot

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza ... nation. The course is able to slide by as a humanities because the focus is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  -2016 season, feel free to get in touch with our assistant coach, Kayleigh Durm ... pool, but I wanted to continue my involvement in sports at MIT. I felt it was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  From the article "Engineering changes for the better in Haiti: Local activist joins up with MIT instructor" By Ron Fletcher The Boston Globe June ... solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  . Enjoy. I'm off to study for 7.05. In response to not-so-recent posts by ... represented by MIT's Living Groups Council, as opposed to the Interfraternity ... West) run daily during the year and help many of our 24 residents get to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  learn a lot, still get exposed to interesting work. I like the people I ... international students can no longer get visas for their parents to participate in ... the night I am seized by an urge to buy a ticket to Johannesburg and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump News and updates for admitted students from the last few weeks, in no particular order...

  

  affected by so many different factors. (Note to self: take Weather Machine ... - if you aren't the sh*t, you're not going to get into MIT. Having said ... split into two or three, but I didn't want to dominate the homepage

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2007