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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... ; At MIT, a hunger for chocolate knowledge   Jayson Lynch (center ... Science, the discussion runs a bit more, well, technical. You may learn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  and wishing that someone would invent a backpack on wheels and call it a ... 15 dollars later, Ben '10 and I were on a last-minute, cheap ... -King-or-McDonald's pit stop. The driver stops at a gas station. Passengers get out and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  Today I am bringing you my MIT Survival Guide, which is a list I made just about three years ago this week when I was a freshman and still sort of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... ’s a green house, inspired by the one across the street from my parent ... value contrast is nonexistent. A couple more layers of paint could make it

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  The first time I ever stepped on a skateboard was in 2015, which was ... Future Part II. I was in seventh grade. It was a week before Halloween, and I had just finished my McFly costume with a cheap skateboard from the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what ... be a flagrant violation of rules to attend class, and a bad idea anyway ... was a struggle walking outside, even if it was a fine spring day; it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a blissful summer. here are a couple of things that are making me very happy ... never did during the academic year. a friend and i walked to a 24 hour

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  other words, the past three months were a completely new experience…and basically the first time I’ve lived like a real adult. My official title at Sony was a “Front-End Development Intern”. When I got the position I was

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  This weekend, I was an invisible woman. Flashback: There’s a ... to several similar events already. A couple friendly vendors had ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250 ... music spanning from Beethoven (a Mozart contemporary) to Mahler (ca. 1910). I loved having a class that taught me to listen, and was all set to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  It's 1am Sunday morning. I just got back from a two-hour car ride with a friend; we drove through Cambridge and discovered a mutual ... I honestly do not believe that there is a baked good out there more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  definitely gotten a facelift :) I took the test this past Friday, and I ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... to the other side of the street. December 18th, thus far, has been a paroxysm of joy. Earlier tonight, Facebook like a hyperactive mailman

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  !.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus like MIT. We have a gym, a pool, a kitchen with free breakfast (including

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  Emilienne, a sophomore studying Biological Engineering and French, has had a UROP in the Brain and Cognitive Sciences department since ... a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT, You Make Me Wanna Wait! Between high school and MIT, I took two years to travel and work as a…

  

  CPW. There will be several of us, including a MIT professor, talking about why this can be a really good idea.) So you got into one of the ... Weekend, but to start your academic and life voyage as a freshman this fall

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... course, i take a top bunk, and immediately try to piece together my ... movies, a fan, an animal pillow" [my eyes continue to wander] when i pan

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  possible. You can imagine how disconcerting this can be for a social ... to be included I have created a very simple equation: LΔ or Learning ... ) Learning = to acquire knowledge or skills and (Δ) Delta = a change in some

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab doesn't love me back. Yesterday, for example, I was trying to get a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... 're competing against 10,000 other people for spots in a class of 1000 tends to ... psyched about brains. When I was in 8th grade, my mom brought home a copy of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005