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• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... had a freshman backpack.) I try to let that roll off my shoulders ... dedicated a few hours to poring over everything that I needed to know. For me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  things. I present to you as a case study the company LiveScribe. So this past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  and emails, and loaded everything into our system. If you are a prospective member of the Class of 2016, this would be a mighty good time to log ... before contacting our office to make sure we've received and processed your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  It's a stressful time. Finals are starting, decisions are coming out in less than twenty four hours... Doesn't it just make you wish you could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  's, like, facebook-official dude!), which makes me enormously happy because (a) they're pretty much the same person so their banter is fun to watch ... revealed.) So the three of us had lunch today. Allow me to share an example

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... takes a lot less AC to cool the servers, and the whole place becomes a lot ... stamp all over a package to be sent  through an airport. (This was tested

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  have to learn to work together and play together, and it makes for a one-of-a ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement ... (you kinda have to be a nerd here). Now is probably the best time to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... to make a demarcation between then & now, still. i’m putting in the ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to make friends, and to participate in class events that wouldn’t come ... "]the answers to those questions,[/annotation]and this place feels like a home and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  about it. This itself was like finding yourself at a meadow, and having to ... gravity, a first principle to found my life upon. I’m not sure when it ... belongings I hauled to campus my first year of college was a cleaver carefully

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  to make technology “think.” MIT is an excellent place to do this, as ... materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... inspiring other learners was welcome to participate. It was a hackathon of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  with a Pinterest board dedicated to being an [annotation note="One of 16 ... hindsight, I see their point; I spent a lot of energy trying to maintain this ... high school, I felt a (self-inflicted) pressure to be introverted in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  applications to MIT, they should make sure to submit materials in a timely ... they're also incredibly selective. I'm beginning to be a little more ... in the end they want to know the same things: who you are as a person

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... first door to the right is a men's bathroom. My friends Steven and Brendan ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  lot of fun, especially after we decided to make a quick stop at Star ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I ... most of the next day for field hockey, so I figured we'd have to wait a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  make 3D models. Basically, we modeled a cafe on AutoCAD and sent it to a ... install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... -D; Note: every line has 10 segments, each segment has to be moved a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  applicant "competitive," how we make decisions on which students to admit. We ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010