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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  learned in 6.0002; when I needed to explain a concept to my students, I had to truly understand it beyond the level needed to just complete the ... As my second semester at the Institute draws to a close, I've been

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... to talk to you about college decisions and my own experience. When I applied to college, all I knew is that I was going to college, and hopefully

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  New Year’s Resolution …of sorts. Since New School Year’s Resolution doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.

  

  Thanks to the agrarian principles our society was founded upon, a new year within a year is beginning. The school year, to be precise. Crops have been harvested, children are no longer needed as farmhands, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  me? How are you gonna tell me I'm just going to need to be an adult for ... chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put ... much as i do are the ones who want to torture virtual people to let

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  . To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all ... no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... . I’d like to think that I’ve finally nailed it. So for those of you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  about your needs for the weekend, the help that you'd like, and to what ... MIT students spent much of last week trying our best to find every one ... weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it. It would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  students spent much of thos week trying our best to find every one of you a ... , the weather during CPW seems to be much nicer than the days around it ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  Wednesday, the line is much shorter, more similar to what the lines were the ... MIT told us that we need to quarantine ourselves, and interact only with ... One. Last Monday, I waited an hour to get tested. The testing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  those of you who have yet to arrive, no need to fret!  There will be ... Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start my new life in Massachusetts.  I came here early to do a pre

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  stuff you need to go dig through all the blogs for it. The new site will ... new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... , regardless of author. You will no longer have to check each blogger's box to

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  break. Although I don't want to talk too much about my break (let's be ... . Essentially, once a week we work on how to convey motion through a series of ... It's good to finally be back blogging (: As usual, there was the end

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  many people (and I, too, was once guilty of this crime) who went to one ... college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... you begin to spread yourself too thin? As a prospective MIT student

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  searched the job postings and email lists for something to tide me over the ... also frantically looked for stuff to do) that said, "Keep Calm and if All Else Fails, UROP." Good news--I did find things to do. I applied for a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  student has got to eat. In fact, all college students need to eat (hopefully that wasn't surprising to hear). No matter which school you attend, most ... . Today, something magical is happening. Students, DSL team up to bring

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  really need to finish?) before dismissing us for the day. And now you know ... interesting to say about it. Not to burst anyone's bubble about MIT or anything ... school, and you still have to go to classes, and I still don't really like

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  And now, for a brief interlude from our regularly scheduled finals whining. I should be studying E&M right now, but this is much more fun.

  

  what I can, but remember that you’ll need some dna helicase to unzip ... and something needs to piece me back together. me: no worries, I’m on it ... Sometimes, I forget how much I love MIT, and then I realize that the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor who resolves to download himself into the System after mortality

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which ... suburban Coach bus that will take them to work. Inspiring!) I’m interning at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  problem, it was easy to get help if I needed it. We don't have office hours ... probably never never really needed that much time. I think it really comes ... , these 1.5 hour exams are pretty much 100% of your grade in the class

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  last February, I knew I had made a grave mistake; I knew I needed to be ... many more conversations that needed to happen on campus, and when I ... , and I found it so hard not to break character. Seeing so much of campus

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013