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• Blog / Challenges

  I can’t feel my face Snowmageddon 2018

  

  tldr; If you like snow and want to come to MIT, read this post. If you don’t like snow and want to come to MIT, don’t read this post. If ... cold. Why-is-the-air-trying-to-kill-me cold. Something known (rather

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • January 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  had the chance to learn some web dev with my friends, meet industry ... (delicious) food, exchange ideas, and work together to build exciting tech ... matchmaking via fingerprint. (To learn about what it’s like to organize Hack

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  mission that we chose to accept is to visit the hometown of every senior brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle ... , New Jersey, and New Hampshire. We're travelling by plane to Seattle and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  neighborhood. In regards to the latter, it is the exact opposite here at MIT. From my FPOP (Freshman Pre-Orientation Program) to Orientation to the first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  students will often proceed to ISEF-affiliated regional fairs, and then state ... to attend ISEF as finalists and present their work to expert judges to ... ) May 13, 2016 (Note: before I came to MIT, I did not know ISEF existed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  candy) happened yesterday afternoon, people flocked to Save TFP’s Spooky ... costumes, merriment, and, apparently, smashing things. You have to relieve ... random leaves ended up in this picture. It’s really cool to see the wind

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  MIT's independent living groups. It's a "mixed house," home to an ... each dish, I had enough on my plate to feed all the chickens for a month ... about moving to pika. "They say there's always a place at MIT, no matter

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... finals week rolled around, I was desperate to be done. I stumbled through 1 final presentation, 2 final projects, and 2 final exams then flew home to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming ... robotic efficiency and precision". Looks incredibly useful! Right next to ... was spotted with my camera and asked what I used to upload my photos. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  Oh how the months have passed- from fall season to finals season to ... 's never too late to check the IAP listings by today's date and attend an impromptu event you didn't have to register for. The dark matter lecture I

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... looked forward to about finishing high school. But with classic Asian

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic ... order. Time to make lunch! Salad + fruit + almonds + a roll orrr PB

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bridge Building: In Progress The culmination of what I've learned in civil engineering

  

  In order to graduate from Course 1, you have to take a class called 1 ... in MIT speak). There are a LOT of components to this class, but one of ... has to be 10 ft long, with a 2 ft wide deck and 2-3 ft clearance above

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... people to append notes to each comment. What they're not terribly well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  group of high schoolers have six weeks to create a five foot, 120 pound monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... the familiar faces you have grown accustomed to? Most importantly, would ... with some high school counselors who wanted to change parents

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  Development) and Sean Gilbert (MISTI-China coordinator) to Beijing. Sean makes a trip to China every summer, but this is a brand-new cultural experience ... Chinese and international universities. Our conversation seems to suggest

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of those well-known campus-wide facts that everyone looks forward to but isn’t really something that’s mentioned as an MIT selling point. Like, “come to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  -blocking girth and...er, sleeping habits, I suppose. (Yes, I happen to be a less ... its way like sweet nostalgia to my ears, I’m in good and plentiful ... √©mon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010