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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with ... two reasons, the first being that I already go to MIT; denying my ... is what I thought would happen - it's hard to find a UROP if you start

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... and Hand," MIT is very big on hands-on projects. To facilitate this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... . "What are you doing?! We have to study for our final!!" "QUIET. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  Date: April 12, 2005 7:21:07 AM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: your MIT dance floor To the hip guys and gals at MIT, First off let me say, "Whoa ... just want to say, "Job well done!". Now only one question remains. So

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... presidential campaign. I highly recommend this book to anyone- no matter where ... political parties are too busy hating each other to get it right more than

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  other stereotypical conclusion to which people jump is psychology). My ... . First, there was 9.00 (Intro to Psychology) and 9.01 (Intro to ... experience shapes the brain. Pure Cognitive Science 24.900 (Intro to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  The MIT Spring Term subject listings have been posted to the web ... by application of physical laws, and learning to complete projects on ... teachers at the Institute. BE.010J: Introduction to Bioengineering Prof

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  collectively create - impossible to describe, must be experienced. Another of my ... 've seen a truly mind-blowing hack. Someone needs to do something about that ... energy and passion. Favorite movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, American Beauty

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... they covered material that I had little to no exposure to beforehand. 11 ... months, it felt really cool to have the tools to understand and analyze key

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  ;p></p> <p>For some reason, people are often surprised to learn that MIT ... , we often just pull out our ID cards and read off of them to avoid ... also on the new football team as well, and gave up his halftime break to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  Do you ever stop to think about how incredible computers are? I don ... brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... sand that we taught to add numbers (much, much better than humans can do

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... squid flesh.” Twixt bus stop to the East and hot dog stand to the West ... to black polished submarines, I suffered a J.D. Salinger moment. A sigh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  , Technology and Memoir). The main takeaway, which I am going to play with here ... objects attached to them. Here are the things on and around my desk and also ... dating. My to-do list for today, in between my laptop and my tea, written

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  been walking a lot recently furthermore, i like taking pictures

  

  I'm not living on campus for the summer, but I have a lot of things to do on campus (tours, glassblowing, UROP meetings, seeing friends), so I've been walking to and from campus nearly every day. I

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • June 17, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  game to play. Each team has three to four players on at a time, each of whom rides on a noble steed--those scooters that you used to sit your ... guarded by a vigilant goalie with the power to apprehend nearby pucks and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  Welcome back to another tour – and I hope you're excited, because ... thought it would be fun to show what Greek life is like for them. (You can ... Phi Beta Epsilon! Right next to the tennis courts and other athletic

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of you may feel happy to ... feelings that you don't know how to name; that's okay, too. For now, just

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I ... calm you down/you think should be added to the playlist? Let me know in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023