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  PSA: Attend Local MIT Admitted Meetings! Note to ADMITTED, CURRENT, and FORMER Students

  

  MIT Class of 2021 has been assembled, it’s time to welcome them to the ... to get used to before coming to college) and great company (which is, of course, more important than food). It’s soothing to hear from alumni

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

    Prerequisite Reading: East of Eden, John Steinbeck "To my heart, it felt like the ... within to the edge of what can be loved." Autobiography of Red is for ... in the face. Always to look life in the face and know it for what it is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for about an hour before leaving once again. It has been so long since I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  like it. I have a view of the Media Lab and of the construction next to ... -approaching (actually, it's here. Oops), and I have to decide whether this is something I ... could honestly be put to better use on a lot of things, but at the same

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... statehouse, but it costs money, and Adam and I were determined to spend as ... my river-facing MacGregor window -- believe me, it's really tough to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Events

  APPLE BAKE channeling midterm stress into baking, sculpting, and completely destroying apples for decades

  

  ! I wish I'd been able to participate this year—it's sad that we won't be able to hold it for the next two years since Burton-Conner is ... of Burton-Conner compete to create the best apple dishes and apple art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  . This year it involved running across town to Harvard, where I’m taking a ... first day was, but also by how similar it felt to my first day as a ... coolest!! ...and as students in this class, it's our semester project to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... +" is not something you can say you want to do and achieve with complete

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... remote freshman fall. I got pretty good at it, at least compared to the ... it up, I'll just go out to eat instead of cooking. This is why all the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... Cormick, the dorm I live in. There, Anuhya '14 used her mad design skills to ... Analysis of Algorithms) exam this past Thursday. Once it was over, my brain

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops ... when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my first year, in slices ft. ruminations on the freshmen friend group

  

  line roughly a month before move-in, in an effort to capture just what it ... tendency to stick regardless, and how can you possibly expect anyone ... ; phrases i’d never used until MIT:    “I would go, but I’d have to get

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • September 18, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  engineering is giving me the opportunity to use creativity and technical ... . It's also allowing me to keep the options of both fancy sustainable ... evolve, or can evolve, to better prepare students for changing economic

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Term 2006! Spring Term Oh Six starts today (music video included).

  

  have to take it like a champ. So today's schedule went a little like ... up on a table and kicked a can to demonstrate the concept of frequency ... Buzz. 8. Roommate hits you before you can hit the snooze button. Maybe

  • by Bryan
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Double diplomas The only thing better than one MIT degree is TWO MIT degrees!

  

  can graduate MIT. Triple-majors used to be allowed, until someone ... on the plan -- if you ship it to the roommate, the roommate can be on ... majors (perhaps thinking that if they make it difficult to understand, only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  demonstration of Civil War medicine. He said that he used to do it with an actual ... free time at work, because you can break away from it immediately when ... using Queen's pop anthem "I Want to Break Free", which itself was also

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  choose the best students we can without regard to how much money they will ... example, if you do not see your country listed, do not take it to mean that ... country. * Yes, we do consider Canada to be international, since, well, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  to my post on cross registration, "How can MIT undergraduate students ... 's academic calendar, or something substantially similar to it (you may already know that Harvard currently schedules its finals in mid-to-late January

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... write about it ;)  But summer's winding down now.  The time has come to ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  ’t, Andrea and I used it to enjoy what we termed “pastoral evenings”, sewing ... , albeit in the top 1000 most used words in the English language. I tried to ... , all my friends started posting, and it was honestly so nice to see all

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025