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  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not ... money. If you drop any later the class will show up on your transcript as ... will only show up on your [annotation note="the one that MIT keeps, not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  -to-be supervisor, Dr. Abel Sanchez, saw on my resume que yo hablo español, he asked ... ) while trying to maximize the happiness of the matches based on the ... of the girls working on this problem: Livin The Dream with Gale

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... are also keeping close watch on the overall situation and exploring the ... * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * tech article on a student directly affected by the executive order

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  glow-in-the-dark murals on blacklit walls. People are spinning poi lit on ... great, depending on how much travel distance along Memorial Drive you ... , I'm sitting cross-legged on a floor of Maseeh with my FPOP friends

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  I am sitting, alone on the second floor of a brand-new cafe, with ... , throwaway books on the shelf that spans the far wall. My table trembles when trucks pass. It's 9 PM on Friday, and a heat wave broke this morning

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  On Friday, September 4th, I arrived in my office shortly after 7AM ... dome, a multi-part hack appeared on the morning of September 4, 2015 ... was used to fling older hacks back on the Great Dome. The hack

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Reuse Poetry Giving things away

  

  "I got it on Reuse," people say, with the emphasis in the word falling on the re-. When I see the word elsewhere and say reuse in my head ... Appearing shortly on the bench outside of the first floor nautical museum is a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  On Friday, May 22, I put on some waking-up music and started packing ... footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  I don't usually see students on a day-to-day basis.) Anyway, I ... Katharina Ribbeck on biomaterials, whose research is on mucus. (I studied ... science videos on farts and poops, but sneezes and snot are the truly awe

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  underneath Stata where the three-person crew stays while on shift, equipped ... , working mostly on the 8am-12pm and 12pm-5pm shifts. Being an EMT is one of ... you so far. Actually being on scene with a living, breathing person is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three-year anniversary of going on leave (November 1!) A six-page autobiographical comic chronicling about three hours on a Saturday evening A post, mostly words

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  performer/entertainers are invited to perform on campus. This year, the comedy ... Thomas Middleditch and Kumail Nanjiani came on separately. They both had very different comedic styles, which is harder to see on camera but

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  forwarded me this email: Greetings, On Saturday September 13th and Sunday ... crust. We will depart MIT at 8:00 AM on Saturday, camp at Barton Cove, and return at approximately 1-2 PM on Sunday. Everyone is invited to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year ... above: the MIT blogs had a huge influence on my decision to apply to and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  research, and enjoying this view from my lab on a daily basis: Campus ... ). My research is on the microbiome of the female genital tract, and my ... define MIT’s presence on the global stage. I had the opportunity to learn

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  I'll be honest—I had never really planned on going abroad during ... for two reasons: 1) We would be working on designing an application for ... scheduled for the week before Spring Break. I had never really anticipated on

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . For more information on how our Early vs. Regular and deferral process works, you can read a previous post I've written on the subject ... do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  ...all sandboxes for building castles. Put them all together, slap on a deadline, and ... a Grand Theft Auto-inspired game set in, well, any setting on Earth the player wanted, as long as it was on Google Maps. Yet another team

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  . In my bio, I mentioned that MIT wasn't on my radar when I was applying to colleges. Obviously, if you're reading this blog, MIT is on your ... 's my list: 1. Humanities matter. I'm expounding on this point from my

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  from 2009-2012, when I went on a somewhat spontaneous year's leave to complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... worked on interesting projects. I snacked. I read books. I started doing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013