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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  When MIT Gets Tough, CAAAATTTT Everything was terrible, and then I cat

  

  Her name is RORY (like Loralai from Gilmore Girls!!) and she is adorable ... okay with getting squished and loved and it is fantastic. She purrs when ... direction. THIS IS SO AMAZING Here are more pictures of my little bundle of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (My Third) First Day In which I attempt (and fail) to do a timelapse vlog

  

  rollercoaster of MIT scenery that is pretty unpleasant to watch. Even post ... " to "this is going to be a beautiful artsy timelapse around MIT campus ... I discovered Microsoft's Hyperlapse research project which is pretty

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly ... and started asking about what Boston life is like.  Turns out he's going ... chat/climb in the Northeast this fall. ^This is networking! Or take

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  like to do sometimes when no one is watching) since winter break so to ... bill is a monthly flat rate, we have the luxury of leaving the fans on ... apartment is near the Berklee College of Music and the Boston Conservatory off

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... stand side-by-side, each one holding three or four floors. Each floor is ... to phones to mobile network recharge cards. Wednesday is usually an

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... first day of lab and I'm a bit nervous. 2.007 is well known for its chaos ... manageable pieces.  Our first assignment is to build a "Mini Me" robot that can

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Believe in your magic a thank you to the 2018 applicant class

  

  sort out – well – anything!" (1.131). "The trouble is, the other side can ... know anything? Don’t they know you belong there?” The troubling thing is ... . I know that is a lie from Lord Voldemort. The main comparison that I

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  .           3. However little time there is, use it. For example, in learning a ... 's mathematically proven that learning at 200 word vocabulary is 100 times better than ... minutes to plan a lesson is infinitely better than none. And having a few

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  ) Easily-Googleable questions make me grumpy. Ex: "what is the application ... all -- Z. H. asked, Do you read the essays? The answer is no, I have ... just learned that my AP Calculus AB grade for my first semester is not a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  Tomorrow is May 1, otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. This is ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three ... , military service, or other reason). Whatever your decision is, please do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  My family is here! Yesterday and today, my parents and my little ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for ... going to be here for CPW itself - ESP is flying me to California, to teach

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER!! Undergraduates just got their prefrosh ... that makes us happy :)  It is helping us get through this tough week, and ... CPW, no worries! Orientation week is just as great, just a week long

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an ... contest! This is the official message from SWE’s outreach chairs. --- Hi

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  went to danger!awesome. danger!awesome is a laser engraving and cutting ... Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... . Check it out: One of the best parts about Rambax is that you don't need ... on the beach in Dakar: The music scene in Dakar is one of the most

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bibliophiles assemble! When life gives you books...

  

  is written by MIT Media Lab professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland on the ... . Designing Media is a collection of interviews with media pioneers, probing media of the future. And lastly, Ai Weiwei's Blog is a translated

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Heck yeah, democracy. PSET Extension!!

  

  the past 4 days working on 6.005. Our assignment is to create a Sudoku ...  (Piazza is basically a site where students can ask questions and instructors ... a class extension for pset 2's deadline? This is a hard pset, and we

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  bound is your sanity.) Here's the anticlimax: I am not one of those ... have optional, weekly open problem solving sessions, which is kind of ... just completely for fun. This class is my official substitution for 6

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... of traveling is making new friends! In this trip, I met a wonderful and ... store. The whole nicolas-cage-was-here was obviously a joke (or IS IT

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012