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  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  Hi everyone! I’m Callie T, and Ellie invited me to share what my day ... , I promised myself that I’d attend all my lectures to avoid a repeat of ... totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  Losbetos or Filiberto’s. But according to Google Maps, they don’t seem to ... that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  completely stacked Google Calendar seems to indicate that I'll have much less ... 't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were ... had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  still be trying to figure out who your EC is so let's talk a bit about the mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  In an engineering class with a lecture format, you get to learn a lot ... students will be equipped to handle upper level classes. But instead of taking us around the machine shop and giving a boring explanation on how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  force myself to focus—focus, focus, focus. I manage to skate cleanly after ... A brief intro... Last Wednesday, I left MIT to compete at the 2016 ... -January. Wednesday I’m done with my last class at 3pm, and return back to my dorm to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... great place to work and be a student. 1. MIT is very diverse -with no ... means we get to consider changes and additions to questions we include on

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  The Brass Rat is a long-standing MIT tradition that has given rise to ... 'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the ... controversy. I would've loved to see a woman on the seal. It seems illogical

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... as a kid, i used to always be on edge when interacting with people ... that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you ... asked to help with the routing problem, Perlman spent 30 minutes ... 't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Lagrangian to calculate the net force on an object falling from rest, you know ... Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  you can add some context and details to your application. It’s a chance to tell your story and for us to get to know you as a three-dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  to notice much else. Thankfully, just a few hours after putting my pencil down and saying goodbye to genetics, at least for the time being, I was on a plane headed back to sunny southern California. My parents and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  comes to mass produced, cafeteria style fare, but being forced to ... the thought that by being forced to write or fail, we would inevitably ... scrambling to do well in all of your classes while not losing your sanity. It

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my stuff. I'm not entirely sure why. I always think that moving is going to ... steps to the process, and all of them are inconvenient and involve lots of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  are a bit unhappy they'll be forced to pay for breakfasts they probably ... add money to a TechCash account and whenever your ID is swiped anywhere ... not produce a profitable venture. To encourage students to eat at the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  to be hitting this week. Last night my friends and I wandered from B1 to Skullhouse, for a hospital-themed birthday party complete with bags ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual ... when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008