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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  freshmen can make a more educated choice about where they want to live. Of ... good fun. If you're dying to see these videos, some residences will host ... . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  making, I have no problems with contributing to life lesson #2 But beyond ... consistency of icons and the familiarity of the website to ensure that the artists make full use of the website's features. Which is awesome, because

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.

  

  during-the-semester musical to be fun." Me: "Yeah, you're right. I won ... office to find out that my duet partner couldn't make it. Cue nausea ... your intuition, you need to relax and open your throat more." I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  from the archives related to this decision, the one you're nominally in the process of making. They aren't intended to persuade you to choose MIT, but to make the best choice for yourself. Although of course you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  medicine for my taste. There are times when I seem to make no progress and I ... find your UROP? A: Once you find your first UROP, it’s easy to find ... need to learn or find answers to your questions. Prof. Langer, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  comfortable place to be. Pro tip: ATTEND YOUR PROFESSOR'S OFFICE HOURS. DO IT ... STATISTICS Expose a "counter" to a gamma ray source, and make some statistical ... four semesters left. 2) I have to declare my concentration (every MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  loose to do it, we each took about one hundred twenty minutes.  After you’re ... towards yourself to make a curve. Then you do that again, in larger scale, to make a hook. Repeat that on the other side, so you have two hooks

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  're googling themselves -- hi professors, I really do like you!) So my big news of the day is that I got to eat lunch with MIT President Hockfield today. Apparently she asks five or six students to eat lunch with her

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part unsolicited advice/storytelling. If that’s not your cup of tea, maybe this will ... to take your required classes over four years was hard. The basic idea

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  .  If you cannot find a Medlink wherever you are, try to make your way to ... to make it Q&A styled, where I answer some questions that you might ... event you want to attend or star each event for every day on your phone so

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  inviting (and so open to you losing several weeks of your life to them ... tomorrow/Saturday at pi time). but we're not going to talk about any of that ... good that this world has to offer. this post is that place. here are some

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice for the Incoming Froshies You've accepted your offer to MIT! Now what?

  

  you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up ... thing on your plate right now is figuring out when to take the Freshman ... of your comfort zone, and it also is the perfect way for you to start

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 13, 2014
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  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 ... app essay drafts - is on Google Drive. I am now drafting this in a .txt

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

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  make my decision regarding which college I wanted to go to, I was pretty ... world, and if you're lucky, you get to publish something of your own ... since I got into this place. Good luck to all of you! I can't wait to meet

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We ... ‘Noam, you're going to be President.’... That was so incredible to hear ... Noam Angrist, from TIMtalks: ‘Your talk was awesome. Just wanted to let

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to this article, Malaysia recently made it illegal to name children after "animals, insects, fruit, vegetables or colors." Gwyneth Paltrow, I'm looking in your direction. Well, I don

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  ? It's always a good idea to contact the coach for your sport if you are ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores ... 'll want to see the grades; if your American high school transcript includes

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... a twenty-minute shower, and go back to my room, pick out my clothes ... them. I know she’ll do great. I walk to my hall’s kitchen and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  began, we stood up to do an icebreaker: Say your name. Make one sound you ... chemical engineering companies. I went to some of the conference events ... who is in the second video above, taught us how to make an echo sound

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015