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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  another leaf, on the foot, two days ago. It wasn't a gentle smack, but it ... 's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of nerds who have no life. Is that true? Can you have a stronger interest in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  campus to dispense food and swag to interested students. We even have a ... Friday!   It’s even crazier if you’re a first-semester freshman and you don’t know what business casual means, much less how to find a job

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the ... my punny ways are a lot stronger when I'm around them; this entry is proof that a post could be hazardous to your mental health. If you walk

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of ... !" I brought a little pink picture grabber I bought last fall at a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  Two days ago, I won a 35mm SLR on eBay! Now I have something I can ... a double major anymore. Why did I ever decide to double in the first place, and why am I no longer majoring in chemistry? I have quite a few

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  This will be the first in a series of entries focused on my ... MEng, or Master of Engineering, which is typically a one-year degree ... ; Comp Sci) offers this and I'm pretty sure it's a lock if you have a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  things I was looking forward to most about MIT was having a laptop and ... Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the world). The issue? I needed a laptop. Although there have been some blogs

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  hosts a lot of very cool early screenings as well as just high quality screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of ... Fresh with Sebastian Stan and Daisy Edgar-Jones a couple weeks ago and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  exhilarating and utterly terrifying days I’ve had in a long time. Especially since I’ve become a real-life potato since quarantine started and things like 1+1 is starting to seem like a challenge. Day 1 of September rang

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  Hey Internet! After not posting a video for a couple weeks I totally feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  (with a view of the Great Dome), a lecture hall, an MIT professor's office, a reading room where people study, and a sailboat on the Charles River. Why? It's a fun art project. It's tradition at this point, and getting

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

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  course they'll in, they'll hedge a little; they might say "6, or 2, or ... , gotten some lab experience at UC Davis trying to develop a fungal-resistant Cavendish banana strain, enjoyed 7.012, and snagged a nice UROP at Langer Lab

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of girl though, she did not hear a word of what he was saying about the plot

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hot Dogs Or, how I fail at eating hot dogs.

  

  I've always been a big eater. Part of this may be because my dad is not only a fire fighter but also because he used to be a cook. For those ... army, and when they're on shift that's fine. When a fire fighter cooks

  • by Snively '11
  • February 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  1. So my sister bought me a bike. It's a used bike, but it's still ... locked it up for me, after which we took the bus to Harvard to see a comedy show. We spent quality sister time together for a bit before I rode the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

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

  

  supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit ... (Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) courses at a rigorous technical school ... considering a Spanish minor, I’ve had to backload them. Secondly, it makes me

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about ... -intensive, and thus require a set amount of writing. MIT makes taking four of these classes a graduation requirement; that way, instead of just being good at

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from a cherry pie that someone had brought into the office to share. As one ... response because I was subsequently asked to rate the pie on a scale of 1 to

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  there is a LOT going on in the world right now -- perhaps most ... here! sometimes you just need a break from the stress, a place where you ... and mind. [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="700"] it's a rest

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school friends and I during our superhero day. The other one was holding a picture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016