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• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  think to a certain extent my outlook is forever different, now, because I ... tough at times, and I'm going to have to take a bunch of technicals next semester. But I'm glad to have taken these classes, and very glad to be at a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Friendly Body Pillows body pillows are my love language

  

  , about a mile from MIT. It was a convenient 8-10 minute walk to get groceries from Target, Hmart, or Daily Table, or to grab a latte from Caffe ... like waifu things." I didn’t have enough hands to haul a body pillow

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  . With Pass/No Record in place to make the transition easier, first semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit ... amount of time to classes every moment where I could have fun was a nice

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  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 5, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  Today is the fifth annual Save The Frogs Day, a day to spread ... a state similar to stem cells, prefatory cells that can develop into ... , in essence, the closest thing in nature to a fountain of youth

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... carving blocks and faces and buildings out of butter. I tried to make a ... they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  I made two years ago. One that I had to design a user interface for ... game, one person uses the VR headset to navigate a cell in a first person view, while a second person uses a tablet to highlight different

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and ... graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... I decided to stick with aerospace after testing a range of majors, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code ... which I'll blog about soon!) but I did manage to make my way over to East ... . Awesome.] As a freshmen, I feel that it's my personal responsibility to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  , trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he ... no idea what I'm going to do, but medicine is definitely a possibility ... someone who can't talk to people and who only sticks her nose in a book

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... facilitators. This is a great opportunity for first-year students to get away ... fried pants for dinner. I was really excited to have found a great

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember, Remember, the 17th of December… things that happened

  

  perhaps it is an appeal to something which happened on a historically significant December 17th. I am going to continue to keep our reasons a deep ... fabricate such reports to perpetrate a hoax or seek publicity

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  -progress) by making a poster of their work and discussing it with other ... electric eel and the tentacled snake. I was there to present a poster of the work I’ve been doing at my UROP this year! My poster! Here's a link to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  pay for it directly instead of using a credit card. One reason to get a credit card, then, is to get something called a credit score, which is a ... , which leads to a credit score, which leads to getting an apartment. Or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  to make sure that EC gets a good housemaster, because we want EC to ... of the past, I hope I'm doing a good enough job helping to make it a ... . Which means that we will have to find a new housemaster. The new

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  calls it the Brass Rat). Basically, every class gets to choose a committee to design the class' ring. For such a small piece of jewelry, it has so ... . Thus on the Boston Skyline, you can see a Delorean making it's appearance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  being a second semester senior. I don’t quite know what to do with myself ... bored easily. Details to follow. I am also TAing a class, but that time ... about this class, but I am starting to realize it is because it is a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... , as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all-to ... don't have enough time to train 6 hours a day, 6 days a week like my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me ... supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... . But, this semester, I actually had time to take a walk without a point B

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019