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  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter* Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  best of it and kill two birds with one stone by taking a class that ... from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to ... interpretation of the GIRs, so please ignore them if you think I'm just being woozy

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  one here is one of my tiny struggles over the past few weeks, and it ... day, where i deconstruct a little the notion of being productive. it is, of course, one thing to know and another to believe. it is the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... Physics of Baseball. Also, I went to nerd camp. In 1998, when I was about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  support local record stores by releasing exclusive merch/limited editions of ... Cast EP” along with “Motorcycle.LPG” by Slaughter Beach, Dog. Both of ... games of all time has to be Zork, a text based adventure game made by MIT

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  faces. A gaming UROP hosted by the MIT Game Lab where we're creating a ... midst of planning Comedy Night and SpringFest. I'm really nervous since I ... Fest which is arguably one of the biggest event, if not the biggest event, of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  enthralled by one of the most boring attractions at the park. At first, it was ... by the difficulties of my classes like I did last semester, with ... ."]weekly,[/annotation] one of my favorite rides was the Disneyland Railroad. The Disneyland

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... - alison"]midnight[/annotation] Fold a piece of paper 21 times Watch 30 minutes of cute animal vids Delete all the phone screenshots you don’t use

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  I’m actually living here, in the middle of it all, that I’m sleeping and cooking and stressing over psets while surrounded by all of this ... gorgeous. I’ve been here before. None of the places I’ve walked so far are

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  . (Nerd status, I know, but confession: I was much more motivated by the socialization aspect of Science League than the exams.) September of senior year ... confession would confirm - escaping math and science was one of the things I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus ... of this: I’ve stepped out of my box. I tend to create patterns

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  to town and parks their train right behind Simmons. This is one of ... ’s the elephants. Specifically, the walking of the elephants from the train tracks behind Simmons down Massachusetts Avenue, straight in front of MIT

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What it’s like being back

  

  back of everyone's mind is "Chris, WHAT have you been doing?" (or ... 's just akward). Despite what exploring the akward intricacies of inflection ... deluge of school came. (I was mildly successful). It was surreal coming

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  good fun of course), but Sara stands by her soup and cereal. One day, the ... cook almost all of their meals there. I'm not very cooking-inclined, nor ... across the hall. Sara '12 is also a resident of Conner 2. You may remember

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  Professor Angelika Amon of the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  [by CDT Vikram Mittal, MIT '09 Mechanical Engineering PhD Candidate] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  term, my GPA would increase by one tenth of one point (MIT only rounds to ... eventually turned out to need about two and a half hours of touching) when I ... contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  Boston and try yummy restaurants. Inspired by my conversation with Andre, here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006