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• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  disorganized heap of code and configurations that aspire to 6.470 fame. Adjacent ... want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... Boston to meet us on campus. The rest of the semester, we continued to have

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  like fire After all that talk of fear danger, I still chose to stay ... of calm and focus I usually don’t get in the hectic day-to-day of an ... ’t cheer loud enough. At the end of the show, I go find my friends to go

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  far, been the most exciting year of my life to say the least. Last year ... disbelief. Although some of our eggstronauts had to meet their maker, two, if ... around a table in 8.02 to demonstrate understanding of magnetic fields

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8 ... ! Will keep. -Intro to Comparative Media Studies: After an hour of lecture

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  , my last few days at MIT were a blur- I had 3 exams and lots of stuff to ... limited amount of storage space in Burton-Conner and only had access to the ... are some people who test out of everything and try to double major in 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ) but also what you didn't. I knew, of course, that MIT students got to ... 't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  you can’t be everything to everyone you just can't

  

  steam, and i felt zero motivation to work on any of the puzzles. this ... usually being one of the faster teams to finish. none of us were feeling it ... , because i want to. i want to so bad. thinking about all of this makes me

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Boston Pops John Williams and a bottle of wine -- on a school night!

  

  Thanks to the organizational prowess of the Tau Beta Pi (engineering ... engineer, I went to the Boston Pops last Thursday night. Happy 125th anniversary to the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO)! This is how lovely Symphony

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  -festooned establishment in Uptown Manhattan that pampers to the effete relaxations of the ... here to appreciate the democratizing effects of the Internet. In another ... territory of Jean-Georges' seasonal lunch menu is closer to high-end bathroom

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story ... a bit of a different spin, bringing in guest speakers every class to ... full fledged business plans, much of the class has to do with exuding

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... & Meditation first, Yoga right after. Although having to take half of ... to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... to see most of what classes you'd like to see as little of as possible ... . you'd seen plenty of photo already.) Your feedback is important to me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand ... . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  of my favorite place on earth, and there are so many things to find ... ! After the weekend, when you finally stop running around to all of the ... * looking forward to what you're going to come up with through the magic of

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... to take a picture of, so I did my best: And if you're curious how much

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable ... trekking to an Athena cluster in the middle of the snowy night (uphill both ... . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  faith in the future

  

  The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control In my AP ... . Maybe I should've read Rona's post earlier instead of waiting until now to ... . It was the fear of committing to a single, defined path. I've been

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Last Look Back 201920192019

  

  , I've been able to fall back into the routine of life at home. In between all of this, it's begun to hit me that I am now officially more ... study-abroad in South Africa, where I got to meet some of the kindest of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  scary.) Now, there are a couple of side notes to some of these majors. A ... mechanical engineering. Second of all, it means I chose to concentrate in "CIR ... are only able to squeeze 2 or maybe 3 into their schedules around all of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007