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• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  'll get to do things at MIT/in Boston that I've wanted to do forever - like ... this one, get back to dancing a lot, and more. I've already started on ... overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  when I don't have to worry about the legibility of my notes when I get ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the rain involves three things: 1) Rain boots * I didn’t get rainboots

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  the foreground. Before I get back to work, one last thought for those of you still working on your final decision about where to enroll next ... 'm referring to my 8.022 pset, my 18.03 pset, my big humanities paper, my 20

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the ... packed with hosts and pre-frosh running to class and with families taking

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on ... . and you have to cover your costs. This is opposed to a software startup ... networking afterwards because I had to get to another class, but I did learn a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... liked to paint tangled masses of naked people getting sucked up to heaven ... unregistered commenters and I would get to approving this comment at my earliest

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  mention that if you're good enough to get into MIT grad school, well ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your ... campus, hair dyeing (good luck explaining that to your parents), and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really ... .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie ... as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  year, but I would like to create things that won't get me sued by the Ivy ... I didn't pre-register for it, I was nervous that I wasn't going to get ... wanted to become a movie director. We also get to watch a movie every

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  learn to motivate and support your understanding. Furthermore, whereas ... graduate-level subjects, everyone at Cambridge, from your lowly genius to ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... between Tybalt and Mercutio? If Romeo’s trying to get in the middle of them ... have that make it ideal for telling this story this way? We wanted to get

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of ... ’s just pass/no record, another girl thinks to herself after getting her ... way it works is pretty simple: for your first semester at MIT, you get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  to get a head-start on - in four of my five classes (the only class ... 's your chance to discover if you really want to become part of MIT - part ... , ranging from ever-welcome three-day weekends to (most beloved of all) the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Why Is There No Water? One of the most important things in your life is invisible to you until it…

  

  the complexity of getting water to places that don’t have it. I was ... are just as likely to get into a rain bin as the water—the larger the ... as these to simply get from point A to point B, including to collect

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  It’s FPOPpin’ Whatchu know 'bout me?

  

  themselves into an FPOP, allow me to settle your internal dispute: do it. You ... obligated to wax rhapsodic about things that didn't happen very long ago.  I ... year ago. It was a beauteous midsummer morn, and I was filled to the brim

  • by Tom R. '14
  • September 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  off of jazz. It really made me want to get back into music; I've played ... can definitely do anything you want so long as you're willing to make ... recitations to go to, so I decided, being the music lover that I am, to head

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  important aspect of your academic and social life. Sorry to draw upon Harry ... , you pay tuition to your home university, but room rent to the university ... to your major and how many people within your year in your major want

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  enough to get some solos in Fugues songs last year, and when I did, I found ... this … You become just what you have given your life to be. Not merely ... ability to transcend the goal, transcend the success of the best, if you get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a ... into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008