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  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  -long exam my room had to evacuate. Great news for me! I had just gotten back ... body for the first 30 minutes of the exam. I read the questions and ... expressing sympathy for the students involved (without me even identifying

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  facilitator for Interphase EDGE 2018. I could not be more excited. As some of ... summer, and I think the opportunity to come back as a TA for Calculus, as ... organization, the Office of Minority Education, that has done so much for me

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes ... built for getting lost, with streets lazily labelled, alleys and bridges

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  physics, then I teeter-tottered with a few other majors during my quest for ... the Laboratory for Atomistic and Molecular Mechanics, and it is actually ... and Hydrothermal Liquefaction. So how does it all work for a Freshman

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  're sitting on for this view. It was an exciting day for my Fitbit. My team and ... Moscow (for free!) for a 3-day hackathon, plus 7 days to adjust to the time ... ’t sleep for a consecutive 36 hours.   Our first attempt on the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  Pong Champion. He is a sucker for Maseeh’s cookies, drones, and creeping ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 remake was announced Rewatched the movie every month for about three

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups ... , simulations, manufacturing, etc. They are choosing 5-10 startups for their

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Marathon, for the first time since 2013, when the Tsarnaev brothers killed ... handle than training. When training for something, I can set and focus on a ... turns out, for the rest of your life, too.     I'm not sure

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of ... for decision making.   15.812 Marketing 15.812 is the introductory marketing course for the MIT Sloan School of Management MBA's and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  three things i made recently lasers, radio, and a chocolate chip cookie loaf

  

  cats, camping out in the kitchen warmth. everyone raiding the fridges for food. i found a cookie recipe over the weekend that's really working for ... really easy for you to build radio receivers with a car antenna and a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech ... alums in the 30 Under 30 for the past three years. (Slice of MIT is a cool

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  Maseeh Hall has been my home here at MIT for the last four years ... lived in the same dorm for four years but I have lived on the same floor for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  gravitational waves, learned about opportunities to work abroad for free (MISTI ... reading about them online or watching them on the news. I am excited for the future, both for the things that are being discovered and created here, but

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the ... in the mainstream, so for a department at one of the world’s most ... gendered words to refer to people for a very very long time, and it’s just

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Antiquarian Book Fair, and flyers for future Boston adventures. Then we headed to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... lead the Keynote. Messud is famous for her New York Times-bestselling The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  over Briggs Field and miraculously stayed airborne for over 6 seconds. Unfortunately, I was crouched on the grass for the majority of the 6 seconds (I ... lab. GEL stands for the Gordon Engineering Leadership program, and it is

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... Foods as being too expensive for college students. However, you can shop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  . MIT decisions came out yesterday, and for those who spent all day waiting (and anyone else going through college admissions), this is for you ... ’t help. I’d always thought that I was the perfect fit for MIT, being the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  emails. For all of you trying to get your Regular Action application in by ... ; For RA students What is the application deadline? The deadline is ... interview for the near future, you are all set. Don’t worry if your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions ... Every Day lift or run practice handstands write something not for yourself ... for a workshop hosted by the Urban Metabolism Group, within which I have

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015