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  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  year I am in the other Cambridge (the OC for short :) ) in the UK. Along ... from September to May with a summer break, the Cambridge school year ... class. And in between terms, we get 6 weeks off, which is pretty amazing

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  furniture and drove to Walmart and went to meetings. A few days in, I pulled ... taking a short nap.) The Plankers liked to belt to music to distract ... for short. OMSI had a LEGO x Jurassic Park exhibition, where we got to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  it’s ok with you, I will include your experiences in a similar PSA next ... you to attend them. If you’re an AdMITted Student: this spring’s event ... your first MIT friends! Discover your “mini-MIT away from MIT.” The get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  to do it in high school, but I was afraid I'd get homesick and wasn ... supposed to write a little cover letter/essay about your qualifications ... ... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  specifics. You should learn to shut up once in a while. I hope your eating ... ="52584" /]   Did you finally dye your hair like you wanted to? Get a tattoo ... . In a car ride to my dad's place, he asked me "Why would you say shit

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  ! She also should get credit for pushing me to ask the question in the ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am ... English as their first language and grew up in different cultures try to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  observes one's surroundings. Even if you're circling the globe in a plane 20 ... 've yet to apply, this will help you out. Go back in time to your earliest ... , go forward in time a little. As you go, collect your experiences, both

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  direction. The next step is to design a setup that will move an object in a ... How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized ... create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... U-Haul (moving day in Boston; none to be found) and then a rental car

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Having Trouble Reaching Your EC? Some advice on getting in touch with your interviewer.

  

  are on this topic, a good thing to keep in mind is that when you do call ... sometimes takes a while to hear a response. Some of this may be attributed to ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  West to get there. GAHHH). We all got off from work pretty late, but decided to celebrate our first day on our jobs by going out to a restaurant ... am capped at this amount of information, I'll try to get some other MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  Release Form. Notes to the wise: if you're flying in, book your plane ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information securely with your future classmates, and to get emails and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... to ensure that we will be able to live in a different double in 3E next ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  that every Wednesday, we'd bring in our compositions and get to work on ... points in a single basketball game. He did so in Hersheypark Arena, a ... around two major projects: a minuet in the Baroque style and an art song in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  ' stock prices to test a stock's reaction to the event. Other data in this ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14 ... ) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week current material: In a positive (as

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get ... population, you may be able to see it in your region -- check it out!

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  , perhaps visiting your favorite childhood haunts in a last bid to say goodbye ... point where a lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get ... can send a letter outlining your plans to our office: Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  UROP. Basically, my lab is moving to a new building in a few weeks (more ... moving over in a few weeks, and our head lab tech had asked me to stop by ... apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  video was to compete, I would have to get a great view. Shuffling my way ... in an otherwise formal job, like taking a selfie before giving his ... as by volunteers in the audience. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... midnight on Wednesdays so every other week, I had 4 problem sets due in a 24 ... and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022