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• Blog / Athletics

  Around the world in 30 days ...ok, maybe more like I'm Traveling a Lot this IAP

  

  months. I spent one night at home, then drove down to the South Bay to compete at the 2018 US Championships. I came in with a nagging hip injury ... thru 12th graders with a partner, a Course 20 PhD student, at a gymnasium

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wrapping Up First Semester Two more weeks to go.

  

  when the guy at the counter stared at me with my armful of books and said ... physics! Speaking of that book, the writer of it just gave a talk at MIT last week that my friend and I attended, where we both sat looking at

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • December 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  . (The first part of our day that made it a happy day wasn’t at MIT, but it ... make it at least 1 minute (!!!!). This made both of us super exited ... . And at the end, people from the audience began explaining very /MIT

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  be a tourist. It seemed like a wonderful idea at the time. How I looked at it then was “A free trip to Russia? Heck, yeah. I can totally skip ... to stay on top of my work.” How I look at it now is “I have made a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  physics at my high school, so I was definitely the most concerned that I was ... whole class was just waiting at one point for someone to say they were ... at the end of the semester. Oh, by the way, I am pretty sure Professor

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  two weeks. i have felt much more at peace over the past few months (a ... of 2018 "disorientation" event at the aquarium, which is a senior class ... i was a freshman, so it was my first time at the aquarium. penguins

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  socially at your own pace. I can’t begin to tell you how many times I called ... your first semester at MIT. Contrary to what one may believe from the ... summer portion, the OME simulates a semester at MIT. You take Chemistry

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  going at your own pace, and that it's okay to slow down when the burden ... so critically damped, in danger of tilting towards instability at any ... wasn't really into the format at first: I much prefer note

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  now she's at the center for civic media, working on projects that ... fun conversation about algorithmic bias, surveillance, and her work at ... criminal suspect."   (about being at the center for civic media) "I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  2016, but it wasn't until the AR in Action conference last week at the ... Earth floating in the room, spinning it around and stopping it to look at ... Strategic Partnerships at Meta, and his vision is to enable Boston to become

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation ... there,” “why would you pick a class that you can essentially take at MIT ... iced coffee in one hand. Fun fact: Harvard classes start at 7 minutes

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... , clutched McCann's books and marveled at the Church’s magnificent interior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  especially at MIT, there's an urge to see a social problem and want to build an ... the cool stuff is happening at the intersections between the two. It ... responsibility!) to be a champion for social change and human rights. Look at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  tremendously surprised I was at how natural the conversation felt. I told him ... about living in Boston, and I shared my frustrations at my home and ... at the world’s greatest academic institution, which happens to share a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the ... actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  essentials for you the student to pick up at the store through Pack & Hold ... -campus job possibilities. -- items you use most frequently at your current ... the laptop security stickers sold at Orientation by the MIT Police. They

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  it should be, my problem was that I took these opinions at face value ... this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... opinions at face value. There have been tons of times where I blurt something

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to ... basically a different outfit.  (At least I count it as a different outfit ... -sleeved shirt and long underwear; you can get these for cheap at Target. That was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toilet @ MIT The Ben Schreck Shits 2015 Calendar.

  

  . Why? It's a fun art project. It's tradition at this point, and getting ... in McCormick Hall for about six months. At that point I decided I ... price tier at Home Depot toilet. So did you shoot initially with a toilet

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  Last week I started working at the MIT Alumni Association. It was ... for me when I was a freshman and when I came to work at MIT it became a ... (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014