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  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... . In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  , but you procrastinated on what you'd wear to the last minute. Con ... get to go up to them and say, "Boy, that really was the bee's knees ... how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... to the animals and parts of nature whose voices are "silenced ... planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  . When I make appointments to "get coffee" with someone, I do not actually ... instruction and practice in the forms of communication specific to the ... 'm ready to sleep for the next 12 hours. Except I have 14.05 lecture again at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  to a mixup with the insurance company; it should be up by next week, in ... So both Melis AND Laura beat me to it, but last night was the early ... just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  hometown of Portland, OR. To be honest, my first year at MIT, the heavy New England snowfall surprised me. I was not prepared for how long the snowy ... 'll be leaving in a few weeks, along with most of the other students on

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  GTL the secret to a successful summer

  

  uncomfortably close to getting scurvy, probably because I overestimate the ... to realize that I'm the furthest thing from a fighter... and I started ... shop. So actually, scrap the entire recipe. The key to a successful

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  image1="59162" image2="59164" /] Click the arrow to see food names. Not ... tradition, we got the full week (to allow for on-campus students to pack and move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  forward to practising my writing even more on the material (pun also not ... , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... to their majors. The requirement’s purpose is to make us more effective

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to ... .001 lecture from hell. I’m not even joking. So you know how the least fun part ... less than 8 vectors to break down, the use of double-angle formulas, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of ... think make good matches to the undergraduate culture of MIT - academic ... that will help illustrate the qualities we've outlined?

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I ... there, I'm able to appreciate the positives. I suppose this stems from ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Ervin Puskar Bosnia, Ohio, Cambridge. A video news report on Ervin Puskar '10.

  

  Bosnian refugee is going to the nation's number one engineering school on a ... years ago from a refugee camp after being forced to flee his home in ... link to the news video; click on the picture of the video camera]

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  -- in SOMA, to be exact. Doing some design stuff." "Oh, cool! What are ... towards positions that offered the opportunity to do design work. I finally ... our in house developers can fathom and applying it to the gorgeous

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  tickets were being awarded based on a lottery system. I entered the lottery within the next 45 seconds because...   ...how could I not go? The de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  lot of work into that museum. It used to be a nun-run hospital; the old ... ) and fortunately made it to the hostel without too much difficulty. Our ... older couple from Bruges who are going to spend the next few months

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . Yesterday was also the deadline to schedule the early action interview. What ... may want to consider doing the "completely optional" essay (really, it ... question. I'll be interested to see how many people try to answer this, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many ... Combine other dorms to reach the almighty Simmons Hall ... How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing ... cause me to be instantly rejected from MIT, I calmed down slightly, went ... As the MIT EA deadline approached last year, I remember reading over

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005