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• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  then planning to get a PhD. Or is it that your going directly from a ... lot longer (and probably a lot funnier) than this, but it is now over an ... to Harvard's Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, which is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  year. It is now my last chance to share these freshman thoughts with you ... self-misconceptions. Learn to change. It’s essential. MIT is a pressure ... ’t scary. It is fascinating [editor's note: I've even declared a Brain and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  open it to, I don't even remember, buy some plane tickets or send an ... bought it new with Best Buy's student discount because I didn't want to ... indestructible, and according to the Internet a solid development machine. It had

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  overnight. It is not yet close to the summers I’m used to, the August I used to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... don’t seem to like where the heat is at already — for the past three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  features include an über-convenient café, an Athena computer cluster (not to ... - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the ... Office matters to me: it's where I pick up the twenty (give or take

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  resident to greet her. East Campus is conveniently located next to Kendall ... just beginning and he couldn't wait to see it all unfold. Here, he would ... forth some serious thought, and decided to give it a genuine try. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  got picked to be a FAP (Freshman Arts Program) counselor, which is an ... only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... causes all the tapes to be erased. Left to their own devices, the pair is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three classes this semester -- and so far, it's been great! I only have one class ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly what MIT is like; you need to do something, but it is very hard, but you

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  which MIT is an affiliate member. It's nice to visit high schools, but for ... to students and fellow admissions officers that this is a relatively ... meeting, we want to have the energy and stamina to provide the best of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  Hi friends, My final semester at MIT is well underway and spring break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  't give you guys access to a live demo because it's proprietary ... lot of pset groups like to meet up in East Campus, because when it’s ... to me when it was time to work. So, it’s a good idea to occasionally

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  corresponds to what its function in the circuit is. The battery is energetic ... presentation so we decided to chill before the show started. This is when the ... idea to a group of people that could potentially steal it. I recommend a

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  experienced one-tenth of it first-hand. It is not uncommon for people to move ... few times, but still is no match in cleanliness or plushness to shiny ... tradition over time. If a hall wants to be known for something, it can be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

  that more people have access to it? How can we ensure that it will still ... -science space in Paris. I helped to curate an upcoming art exhibition ... allowed me to take a mental break from nuclear engineering in between

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He ... . Maker Faire is run by Make Magazine, and it's basically an enormous fair

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to ... 't look so bad!! But needless to say, I was not an expert. It was okay ... mean knitter. I mean, the community is just so incredible." And it

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  on the T, it took 45 minutes to go (compared to the usual twenty ... is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and ... , although it was quite clear they couldn’t make the food fast enough to keep

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  single soul. Not one person. It is never like that in the fall. To make ... freezing. All it ever does is sleet and snow. All this to say, I have been ... with it. I want to talk about it. This is fundamentally different than

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is probably the 5am walk to the station; it sounds a little torturous/scary but ... my super warm electric blanket (hooray to Mommy who made me bring it to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012