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  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  team to finish in a combo beating the other team (ex: your team wins if ... , the sailing team goes to the College of Charleston in South Carolina for ... greatness. We reported to the sailing pavilion at 5:30 am on Saturday

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  admission letters to your hearts in a sleepless fervor of joy, I've been putting pencil to paper(s) and finger to keyboard(s), writing my first ... audience, especially when you're trying to explain complicated research to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... programming, and other offices got together to discuss what we could do to make ... have been working for several years to make Illuminations possible, with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  after bundling up to make the hike from Next House to my classes. 9 ... . This week at least, the cold hasn’t been unbearable. I have time to make ... between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself, "Wow, I've been in America for three months." To be honest, these three months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab

  

  around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  your choice to form your HASS concentration Unlike the science core, you ... hard to present MIT in 20 minutes, especially when you're used to having ... classroom to which MIT was assigned. Next door was a nice colleague from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  , "Stop asking me if you're going to fall and break your neck, you're going ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... don't know about the giant rocks on campus...), but he even had to go as

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home ... , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.

  

  ://decisions.mit.edu. You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging in to

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  right when hordes of students show up to shovel your creations into their ... of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art ... traditional ingredient used in your recipe for a healthier choice (you will have

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  winter break and IAP knowing I needed to make a decision about which major ... -bogglingly few classes that I realized it doesn't make sense for me to not finish a ... . My goal is just to make my time here as manageable as possible, and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheets of copper, making a grand total of three layers (the "triple" comes from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... two foils by making two model detectors to assess each foil's properties

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  time I have to actually make this decision.   I have a friend ... The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  when I make tech purchases. Second, I want to have an easy and automated ... barely find free time during the day, I'm going to try making time to ... wake up and make it to class on time. So for IAP I'll be testing out new

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Anna’s Taqueria

  

  to campus, and that's exactly what happened. Last night, before the official opening, Anna's decided to throw open its doors and give out their food for free to MIT's students. I wasn't there, but I'm told that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  to get into the city. If you're coming out to Boston on a plane anytime ... usually take to do a Ph.D. program? Like how long is your Harvard one? It ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  up to any class you’re interested in on the first day with an add ... Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few ... all drank as much as we wanted to, there wouldn’t be enough. The result

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It All Started with a Sound Board… [By Harrison Bralower '11] I was pleased to find that MIT had a very strong…

  

  running. If you like to sing, dance, act, and tech with people your own age ... way to meet new people and get some fun memories out of your time here ... in eighth grade my class went to the local high school to see a

  • by ARTalk
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day off for mental health -- from school. (To be honest, Mom likes to play hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005