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• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A ... finally come to an end, and with it, my first year at MIT. For me, the end ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  time-to-pee. What is time-to-pee? It's a metric I made up for gauging ... classes (recitations, lectures, labs) you have every day. Then, for each ... 's my excuse for being so absent. The low time-to-pee is especially

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  , they trade 8 hour-days of working on rush projects in exchange for free rent for the few weeks we are here. Yes, I am one of them—I got to campus last Saturday and for the past week I’ve been working nonstop on EC rush

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... .tumblr.com if you’re interested), and raised over $11,100 for Juvenile Diabetes ... challenging. I clambered over rocks, roots, hills and mountains for 20-30 miles

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  New York. I went to Europe for a week, where I had more great food. I am ... !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I received over twenty entries, so thanks for your enthusiasm! :) (although tsk

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... plus. We told her we'd be back on Wednesday for the WASH cluster meeting ... speaking about our projects for television. And that is the story of how we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes ... this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation ... things about MIT HASS (by the way, it stands for Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  something called an IFAF. IFAF stands for Inter-Floor Activity Fund. It's a ... food for the BBQ. 40 hamburgers, 50 hot dogs, just as many buns ... got in trouble for this, whoops), and we had full blown Moonbounce BBQ

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  discretion, for dinners or study breaks or even appliances for the wing to ... restaurant was enormous and empty except for our group of ten people. The dim ... cold night was great. And now, for the first time, pictures in my blog

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  tiles, and I laid in bed and watched for a while. Some mornings also ... thought about the word indeed for a while too, and then I leisurely reached for my cell phone and it was 8:11 AM and I had set my alarm for 7

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... train in Kenmore and go basically anywhere short of Rhode Island for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of ... in my account for free (quick deposit online costs $1.50), but it ... like she's making a beanie out of uncombed hair.) For me this includes a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to ... correspondence. Here it is: So, mainly at this point I am very excited for MIT, but ... . For example, almost all the people I've talked to have been to the IMO

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  not do the same for its research? He saw it as an educational ... aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how ... high-profile work I had done for Amtrak. I am e-mailing you on the off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Leaf in Face I got hit in the face the other day. By a leaf.

  

  a painful metaphor for my life right now. (Sometimes, a leaf isn ... , leaf! Christiane asks: What's the age-limit for prospect students at MIT ... place in the Top 200 in Math/Chem olympiads in high school? Thanks for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  took the job. I've been in that lab for two and a half years now; I work ... . I have my name on a poster that was presented at the Society for Neuroscience meeting and on a paper that's being revised for publication in Cell

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me ... for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  for a one day trip. Well, as Ling's itemized bill clearly shows, it was ... .25 + $.50 for Nick) Erica gives Simon $5.76 Nick gives Simon $5.18 That might ... too timid to ask the waiter for change. It's truly a beautiful disaster

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that ... Campus) have really nice kitchens, so you can cook for yourself as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  . For most students, college will be their first experience largely ... adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to ... than I expected! but still kinda sad). I asked for the average estimated

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025