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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest blog" by Amanda Frye, MIT '06 Spending a year at Cambridge has been an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Selection Day 1

  

  international students.   I wore a tie today, which might clue you in to a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... conclude selection of the international class. Relatedly, I had a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Office followed, making for a fun Admissions Dance Party of sorts (which is just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT Student Center). It was good relaxation during a serious time of year. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans during freshman year, one [annotation note="at a karaoke event in Burton ... ."]accidentally during REX[/annotation] and another during a class I was teaching about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  place. You see, I'm a freshman, and therefore my current resume consists ... ". "Career" is not really a word in my vocabulary yet, blogging is the closest thing I currently have to a job, and expecting me to have any deep

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  of activities -- “studying” and “sleeping.” Unfortunately, I have a ... I scanned the front page of The Tech, MIT’s major newspaper, and saw a picture from an event called Friday After Thanksgiving (F.A.T.), sponsored

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  Human Genome Research Institute? Thanks a lot for your help." This is an ... complete a Senior Research Project and I thought it would be neat to do my ... Program (SIP) application (which includes 2 recommendations, an essay, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or ... ="attachment_111599" align="alignnone" width="300"] sarah and i on our way to a wallows concert back in august![/caption] hello blog!!! my name is sarah and i am a

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... nerds. You start with a soup of universally strong math backgrounds, then toss in a couple hundred ultra math nerds, and a couple hundred more

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  LET ME COOOOOOOK 🍳🍳🍳 I am stupidly excited about learning this Basic Life Skill, and not ashamed to admit…

  

  “On a scale from one to ten, where one is ‘Eat to Live,’ and ten is ... a fancy restaurant in Republic Square, Yerevan, after I and some other [annotation note="A program that sends MIT students to work/teach/study in other

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 16, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please forgive me! If it makes it any better, this is a very long and fairly ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  typography jargon! A letter's terminal is where its stroke ends ... always has a spur on the lower-right. But the G in the label doesn't have a [annotation note="Strike two. A spur is a piece that extends from a curve

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  I figured I would talk a little bit more about this class. I'll start ... shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my ... why I took both a comic book writing class and this class. I've always

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy whiteboard that: has marks or stains from heavy usage for a long time ... fix a whiteboard that had been sitting in a hallway, filled with writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it ... there was a general arc and story in the way the poems were presented and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  IAP is a concept I didn’t really understand until last month, oops ... IAP classes include: Scheduling. IAP classes are a month long, or less. So the classes happen over a shorter time frame. The scheduling of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... ! Want to give me a plasma screen TV for free? Be my guest! Remember, you ... ?" and others are hard like deciding if your relationship with a person you

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  Hello Internet! I had a very writing major day, which is to say that ... preservation.)   The protagonist of ThesisNovel is a high school senior ... be an intensely familiar situation for some of you. But it’s a little

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014