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  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... : Hey! I'm just organizing this big event at work right now. Him: Ohhh ... application. I had a guidance counselor at school, but with over 300 students on

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  , wholesome sticky notes given to us by freshman in the program at the final FAP ... and Tyler from an event the Animation Group hosted. At the end of the ... true 😊) 7) Tickets from the Apple Picking trip at the beginning of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... that has rubbed off on me. I made a friend at Next House, and spent time ... time at both places. I'm happy that I have two different places where I

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  Kevin C. '17 (pictured above at the Porsche Museum) is now a grad ... can learn more about the current team at fsae.mit.edu While many ... cars so far and witnessed our car place second last year. MIT’s car at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... , Pedagogical Director at the 42 Silicon Valley engineering college. This blog post is a summary of the event. ____________________________________ At 12 years old

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  a historical tour, then shop at places like Urban Outfitters, American ... -renowned performers, and sometimes, you can watch four at a time in various locations ... : with unlimited dessert! Pay at the entrance, get a sunny handstamp, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  travels. But what if you throw a ball up into the air and catch it at the ... about 15-20 minutes. Every day, at least one hour out of the many that I ... sleep at night. And I don't get much out of it. One hour spent and very

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  that school has resumed. After landing in the Keflavík airport at 4 AM ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... Vík's beaches. (1) Me enjoying myself at a stop en route to Vík

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  function at any point. That’s how chaotic it is. Major Evolution: Math & ... ended up taking two Political Philosophy classes this semester, one at MIT and one at Harvard. Afterwards, I wanted to take many more Philosophy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  relatively stable at something like “6 a.m. to whenever my first class is that ... schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... convinced that existing primarily at night has been a bad thing, but most

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  class by “stretching”—aka sitting on the floor pointing at your feet, or ... pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... . The weight room in MacGregor.   At this rate I’ll probably be

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  battleground at Concord (plus a lot of other really cool places). But the fun ... annual East Campus Roller Coaster and the Big Flipper at Next House. There ... grinning. I think it’s safe to say that orientation at MIT is not something

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  student to take at least 8 humanities classes during their time here. Three ... adds so much value to your education and to your sanity at this place. I ... these ideas much better than I ever could. I will say that having at least

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... last 6 years. You’d think by now I’d be at least vaguely proficient, but ... class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  -shirts and two sweaters. We are at 10,000 feet, so I guess the cold temperature ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... fruit. At breakfast, we met Feyi (a young woman from San Francisco) and an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . Unfortunately the snow had to go if the car was to be at all usable, so when we ... when I called Zipcar the nice lady at the other end worked some magic and ... (2x) [my mom made these at home all the time and they are fairly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  , in my graduation speech, with strangers I met at conferences. After I ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... middle of our Middle English quiz. At 5:30pm, I followed Professor Bahr

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  purchased so much food that other shoppers at Costco mistook their shopping ... downhill at 8% grade with sweeping views of the desert playa at nearly every ... Engineering) at 340 watts, followed by a series of intervals up Montezuma grade

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... you doing at 8pm on Saturday Dec 8? Sam: Probably laundry. Me: Would you ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work ... , that's at the root of it. For what it's worth, I enjoyed some

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012