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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  for me was something that I looked forward to and feared at the same ... would be away from home for at least 3 months until Thanksgiving. The ... stints at CTY. What am I to do? I was going to MIT. At that point, my mind

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  beat Startropics on Nestopia! I'm already at Zoda, okay?) The class was ... . Intentionally! Or maybe he was just laughing at Ives's weird dissonances. Seriously, there's this one recording of Ives "improvising" at the piano, in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  glance at the material once, then place it all by the curb to be recycled ... admission or at least want to come for a visit. So, you go through the box ... where you visit or where you apply. At this point you should not care how

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  the quote of the evening, for me at least, came when Andreas from ... eat on campus, so you don't fall victim to ordering overpriced pizzas at ... healthy--at least you know that the ingredients are fresh, and nothing is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  like writing about them. I'll be back at school soon, where I'll actually ... .033, and 24.900 are all at the exact same freaking time. I'm not even joking. Of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of classes offered at MIT, three of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  got an e-mail from my labmate Jacqueline '07, who's working at NIST this ... doubt that any of the pizza places at which I will probably be eating will ... Anna's Taqueria at all. 3. My turkeys. My work with Bayer Crop

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  "finally" because I'm pretty sure I actually bought the book at the MIT Press ... some questions. So they threw in a generic thank you to the people at King's College, even though most of the people at King's didn't even know

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  camera monitors. Yeah, try that at home. (Actually, you can. They tell you ... plan - a critical look at all of our publications and the web site ... submit it to HR (it always takes me forever - I'm not good at writing about

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  interdisciplinary, which is one reason it appeals to me). I think that at another ... want to take at some point...the more different things I learn (as long ... immersed in science and technology, and wander barefoot at night through the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  required to hold the neuron at a membrane potential of -60 mV? v) If this amount of current is turned on at time t = 0 and held at this value, how ... cell is initially at a voltage V = E_L? vi) Calculate the total charge

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  song for the entry title. As the most Humanities-oriented student at MIT ... continuing to tell the world that Political Science at MIT is ranked 10th in ... you why you're here at MIT in the first place. In my case, having

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  show for at least 3 years) Or, uh, "Army of Darkness?" Well, he was ... than in Boston, at the Coolidge Corner Theater, a lovely nonprofit ... actually, it has an answer: how about BRUCE CAMPBELL DOING A BOOK SIGNING AT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... versus public schools. At MIT, compared with our "peer institutions," we ... private school students. It is to say that, at least from my perspective, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 04 What I took way back when

  

  , at Columbia University, used fruit flies instead. People shouted out ... the liquid.” Yes, folks. This is what you learn at MIT. 14 ... crazy; for three hours a week, I sit at a conference table with her and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 23, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  scenes of how we kind of attack these stories at Pixar. Some background on ... wanted to work at Disney, but I didn’t how to get there or anyone in LA or ... at the time) who was from there. I knew her family and I knew there was

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  their unique cultures!"]REX[/annotation], as I ran around events at what ... year. I’d been warned about this: at Campus Preview Weekend (MIT ... at a table at Burton Conner, I decided that that was the dorm for me

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  Campus started his first year at Stanford. My childhood best friend moved a ... for more than a few weeks at a time. I don’t know if I ever felt like I ... there. I made new friends at the Twitch office, where I commuted almost

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  2021. I'm a student at MIT studying aerospace engineering. I live in ... Astro PhD program at MIT on [annotation note="technically before I actually ... very sunny day. I counter-proposed in August, at a picnic at a sculpture

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  the trip; I have some plans for the layover at Union Station, but we ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment ... was woken up only twice: once at 2 AM, partially by the cold and by the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  pset with friends in your dorm lounge or at Stud 5, but this week you ... floor of the Infinite. You glance at your phone, to see a 4am Slack ... schedules fall into utter disarray at MIT. While some of my friends never

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021