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  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  greeted by a wall of sound. The sheer enormity of Premiere kind of hit me ... sailing beaver, a pistol beaver, and a fencing beaver, to represent the four P.E. classes needed to obtain a Pirate’s License at MIT

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  not? When I have trouble making a decision*, my instinct is to try ... to declare. *Every time I have to make a decision. Panic. Identity crisis. How was I expected to make a decision without exploring all of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  of some less-than-important recent events, I decided to put up a short ... twelve different authority figures telling us not to kill the kids and a ... essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that right now, you have a lot to be worried about too. Here is a non ... -specific documents but there will be some forms that MIT asks you to fill out by

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  situated next to a beautiful new open space, and across the way from the ... option, by far, is to drive to campus. The traffic is very bad, the roads ... Infinite Corridor its central artery; by extension, we have now moved out to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  will struggle to make friends. If you filter everyone you meet by how ... speaking a word to anyone (no time for words), rushed back out to my next ... work done. I had a bunch of p-sets and exams to worry about, and this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report ... Farmer, Ira Magaziner, Jeff Sachs, and a concert by John Legend in MIT ... the keynote speeches. The first was by Paul Farmer, a physician and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  . According to MFA website: "From the late works of Degas, Gauguin, Munch, and ... impressionism and symbolism to mid-century modernism." The twenty or so pieces by ... saw a bull fight there and it actually made me nauseous, to the point

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  economy. Each year’s Hunt is a gift given by the previous year’s winner to ... my annual pilgrimage to Cambridge for the MIT Mystery Hunt, a puzzle competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  much progress I can make if I consistently go to the gym for a year! I ... eventually make a wardrobe haul because I plan to splurge. I've ordered new ... to make them for last year, so I decided to show you mine for this year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... send a text message to invite friends or post to the user’s Twitter ... the sample call, and Isaac, who “is apparently a pro at making

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  to adequately describe the eclectic mix of videos that are added by the ... MIT was named the most visited college/university web site by 4 International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  website and make a donation. You can contact them at [email protected] ... route divides into three affording a huge number of options for teams to ... Mountains of Kyrgyzstan and into Kazakhstan for a dash north to the Russian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students FAQs for students deferred from Early Action.

  

  because your application was already strong enough to make you a contender ... be great, but definitely by the end of February. You may also want to ... your particular situation. They're more than welcome to give our office a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Return of the Nance Effect The Summer Update Edition!

  

  around the corner. (Funny I say that even though Boston had a heat index of ... to blog a little more than a year ago I wrote the following: My blog will hopefully give you a backstage pass to the theater of the absurd

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  , Entrepreneurship, and Science (MITE2S), which the website describes as "a rigorous ... , and Caltech -- which the website describes as "a rigorous academic ... , HSMC, SUMaC, HCSSiM, and YSP. This by no means is a comprehensive list

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at ... has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... designed to print optically transparent glass. The tunability enabled by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Attended the 148th Commencement From two thousand eight hundred eighty miles away

  

  zones away, I had to throw myself out of bed by 6:45 am. But on the plus side, I got to kick back on a couch sipping on an ice tea while browsing ... up when you have to consistently give a speech at every Commencement

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  movement is impeded by your piles of stuff. You might start making excuses to ... website which not only devised a method of quantifying squalor, but strove ... not be done, because you are too afraid to let a tradesperson see your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 12, 2006