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  bump MIT students design products

  

  become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team ... The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... mailbox. (...what?! My parents were out of town, and I didn't have a mailbox key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  On Saturday evening, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who ... year, MIT students won three of the 32 scholarships. This brings MIT's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  I'd like to publish on this blog some of your reflections about ... admissions process. Presumably, there are tens of thousands of students out ... alone. Some examples of things you could write about: Your experiences

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  Rather than working on the 12-page paper on green fluorescent protein ... student center enjoying a matinee of the Musical Theatre Guild's production of Star Wars Trilogy: Musical Edition. Of course, since the production

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  ; Eat Chipotle (instead of Anna's) (on the daily, if at all possible ... of direction before realizing that you opened up Google Maps on your ... It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  I'll assume that we've all heard of the Nobel Prizes, yes? Perfect, now how about the Ig Nobels? The Ig Nobels are a humorous offshoot of ... research that seems completely absurd. They are then voted on, discussed, and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  a handful of staff on hand to do the processing. Please do not call ... details about the Regular Action deadline. Other than a few hours of downtime on December 31st, it seems that most students were able to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To the future! and beyond?

  

  of the real world this summer when I had to track down a place to live ... beans and tomatillos in there. The reason this is all on my mind is ... difficult, was stressful.  I have never taken an exam on a computer before

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  ’d observe them from [annotation note="room on the second floor of tEp, the ... traffic, just the crackle of my wheels on asphalt. And when I go in the afternoon after a night of grinding on psets, the sun casts a glow around

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  have the rare ability to set even water on fire. Thankfully, some of the ... of our GRTs had the swing up on a different branch of the tree. You ... Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  it. CPW I spent most of CPW punting psets in order to gorge myself on ... 've been working on all semester. Last Saturday, I hit up Grains Of Rice, an ... I'm long overdue for a blog update. To dispel your mental image of me

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... meant to build on top of each other, and you continually need to revise ... undergraduate. I could go on to address some of the subtleties and differences in

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of ... noticed that there was an abnormally large number of interesting lectures on ... series on The Future of Water. Speaker: Vandana Shiva, Director, Research

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  on until the very last stop, South Station, which is when most of the ... ’t.   On your left will be more of the same and, eventually, a train. Get on ... street and walk against traffic on that side of Massachusetts Avenue (turn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  processing. The current status of your application is now shown on your My ... to check up on the status of your application components. The ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  , we have great CPW clips on the Class of 2014 site. If you didn't see Dr ... lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my Mac

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... important part of MIT Student Life. @@ Say that I'm irresponsible for not ... 's Day loong weekend to NYC* yayay so excited) -What the heck was going on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  ’t seen most of the United States. My cousin’s getting married on June 30th ... take an airplane the rest of the way. Hour 0: I am not on a train. I ... train track maintenance, I’ll be sitting on a bus for a stretch of my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  Friendsgiving cookfest on Sunday, when everyone is back on campus, but in honor of ... , Friday, and Sunday! So, on one Sunday in October, eight or so of my friends ... the rest of us got off the shuttle early to take on H-Mart and Target

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023