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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  had something to add to it: Most people will tell you that MIT has an ... campus is mostly the opposite of pretty. But it is an ugliness that I like ... concrete and machinery, and for me, the ugliness is almost mystical. Like it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  the SAT is bad, wait till you get to the MCAT. But that's enough ... three different IAPs in three different countries. I think it'll have to ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of ... the semester sundae. As is, it's the pits. Pun intended, as always ... Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... , there's not to fit through there, and it's a bit.....steep. The nice part though was that though it was about 10F degrees outside, it warmed up to a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• 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 ... MIT uploads pictures from Phase II. It is literally mind-blowing to think that ... the number of classes is your time-to-pee. A time-to-pee close to 1

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect ... Center is a familiar place to all who study language at MIT. Right outside the LLARC there's a lounge, which is obviously cool because it has laser

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  majoring in 21E: frequently asked questions what it's like to study humanities at a stem school

  

  blogpost in an attempt to talk about it. What is 21E? I am not the first ... /engineering is 60% humanities and 40% science/engineering. Typically it is about 8 ... . This is because when I write my major on my resumé (and how I write it on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  eerie it is to have gone from being underclassmen to the oldest people at ... them. it makes me feel old. i wonder what it'll take for me to feel like ... to have that they're right. it's an endless cycle. i just want to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  Dahl, it's that he's not exactly sympathetic to thbe families of his ... were going down to H****** Square (am I allowed to write it, Ben?) to ... , which is inferior to J. P. Licks anyway, stayed open late to capitalize

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  Floating Market itself has become touristy, but it was still very cool to see ... From Singapore it was across the Straits of Johor to Malaysia. This ... the skies in Malaysia. It was hard to see the Kuala Lumpur (KL) skyline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  of people ask me whether it’s hard to be pre-med at MIT, particularly since MIT is known to be a tough school, and whether looking back, I wish ... in med school as it is in undergrad (also, for some reason, EVERYONE

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... printout from Google Maps en route to the Eastern Promenade, as it is called ... outdoorsy areas to visit around New England. Here is the first one I completed

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  to contact your interviewer (EC) is December 10. My recommendation, though, is to contact your EC before Thanksgiving, or even to do it now, if ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knowing me, knowing you My plans for Nobel laureacy, and everything I like about MIT professors.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Kelly Clarkson is the first artist to have five top ten ... reduction to the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and how Professor Dalzell is ... , please tell me as well) * where it is located (city and state) * the dates

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  summer scraps life updates

  

  where i am The downstairs door is open; I can feel it because ... post--that goes, "All respects to Heaven, I like it here." I think it ... career advice I've collected in my work notebook--a lot of it is less

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 30, 2016
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  , because part of being an adult is Doing It Anyway. After the exam, I ... . I'm Doing It Anyway. This is the class that I have been the most ... precious test time. 20.110 is designed to be graded out of 545 points: 100

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

  Television Show Decisions Three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on television each…

  

  , and three hours is about as much time as I'm willing to waste on ... , which turned out to be a complete LIE, but it's too late - I'm hooked ... . Problem: I need to know who Robert Hawkins really is.    

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  connect with my colleagues. To be able to understand why it is they thought ... As an African American I have always felt left out when it comes to language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Lots of good and important stuff for both EA and RA admits.

  

  , check it out! Join the Facebook Group: Facebook is a great place to meet ... . Here it is: MIT Class of 2013. (...and international students can join ... guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information securely with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2009