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• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  giveaway that the person you’re talking to has been fully and wholeheartedly immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... don’t know which one you’re on or which you’re going to (as is often the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  putting some Chef Boyardee in a pot for lunch. That's not to say that I ... directly. Her boyfriend, Chris, just flew in to visit, so she cooked a real ... thought it would be a good time to finally try some real cooking. April

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  cantaloupe. As a California native, I long to see a berry every once in a ... artwork above your bed, taking a deep breath, and using all those lemons to ... Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  have to admit, the minibus experience takes a little getting used to. The ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... impossible to get a flash photo of me with my eyes open. This was the fourth ... birthday. Clayton decided that we would celebrate in style with a "Gentlemen

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  did a lot of legwork to try to get the performance videotaped, so we ... , where she majors in biological engineering, music and theater arts. A ... conservatories, she has a perfect record at MIT in advanced courses across

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  to pummel an innocent robot with a hammer. In return, the Frosh got a ... ’s a lesson the Frosh will carry on from this: “It’s way better to work ... production than Hollywood, for sure. A fortnight ago, the Frosh went to an MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of the most exciting things about being a student at MIT. The flagship MIT student research program is UROP. When you do a UROP, you find a professor
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an ... to do in my busy schedule of having a fever and sleeping it off. S^3 ... up to it to get a physical note, but it was all a fairly easy process

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... a fistfight (I believe that's Feynman trying to knock out Packard

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift ... far-ish away, I went to high school in a low-income area of Fort

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  than a few Greek guys who choose to live in the dorms - like Alan '09 ... 've loved Neil's work ever since a friend recommended Neverwhere to me back in ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team ... plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  social groups a different angle on the 'i found my people in college' trope

  

  other or coexist in the manner the article describes. to be honest, the ... ’m inclined to believe it has a substantive message anyway, the idea that a ... for help or participate in groups; when i happen to be in the midst of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  Ave to get groceries from Target and H-Mart helps clear my mind a little ... to eventually feel comfortable in this new growth in a way that I don ... scholarships and internships. All this in the less-than-half-a-square-mile area

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation ... , and we'll get to do a whole bunch of fun Boston things. Then, I'll head ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  civilization you expect me to just work a chill tech/quant job and relax in my ... they feel the need to work on impactful research, and after a while they ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  most awkward conversations I'd ever been...well, witness to. There's a ... in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  just what one would expect to see at 11:30am on a Sunday in the MIT ... Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  to satisfy everyone in a class of over 1000 students o__o. Despite the ... I’m going to pretend I have not been AWOL. Life updates shall come in ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023