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• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  who have been studying this stuff for years, so I had a lot to catch up ... When I was applying for the GEL program as a sophomore, I heard a lot ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  power tools in their garage at home, and even for those that have worked ... introduce students to the tools they'll be using for 2.007. Today was my third day of class and I thought I'd show you a bit of what I've been up

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  school night. I signed up for a LARP just because I'd never tried one and I ... doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... 's pretty common around here for people to use our October long weekend

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  schools we dreamed of, and tried to sign up for extra courses only to drop ... year of high school.  In high school, we stayed up extra hours to apply to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  side is her wardrobe and the other side has a shelf for her make up and ... wall. But it still wouldn’t prepare me for decorating and ... rooms have can be chalked up. Another way to dress up plain white walls if

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  emails from Harvard because I signed up for a library card, which I guess ... undergraduates. Since it's so long, I've broken it up into sections: Monday ... one of its students. I included the daily new case count for MA in each

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  whole way up. Which is why when I found myself out in Oregon for the ... up for one last hurrah and I set out to do it. To scale Monkey Face ... probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  being bad at ice skating and learning to try anyway

  

  those few days when I’d wake up to frosty dewdrops on the grass at home ... famlines; this is the famline i'm referring to! it's a nice way for alum to ... any Chinese cultural affiliations, which is also true for all other

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  severely cracked. I pressed power and a half-centimeter-wide line lit up; the ... screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and pulled out my phone to look up directions to the next repair shop. I then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  I'm up, you're drunk I wish I had no work today I wish I had no work ... comes to actually writing c++ for our own implementation, it becomes ... field. i only registered for the class because i saw one of the professors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that we were going to visit Vancouver for a weekend. We drove up, crossed ... contemporary art to hang up in their room for a year. Acapella groups roam the ... items of food for each of us. I ate some skewers and a piece of taiyaki

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a ... fell in love with it.  It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and ... market for $250k.  Not a bad amount of appreciation for 2 years of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• 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 schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... our switchboard for real guitar strings wired up to a certain voltage

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  I was seriously misguided - for me to sprint back up to the fifth ... it's stayed that way for such a while now is a combination of a lot of things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  for new experiences, which seemed to be cropping up everywhere on the ... anything else I’ve written, which is what I was going for -- tying up plots ... , which is wayyyyyy longer than I expected. I even signed up for vegetarian

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... revision history. For those of you who don’t use Google Docs, a. Start using ... revising my essays at every editing point. It’s pretty cool, and for those of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up and prepared for my big driving day down to San ... Harbor and ran up to around LAX and back for about a 10 mile loop, after

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  somehow, i ended up being a teaching assistant for a 3 month biology class ... my high-speed data for canada, there wasn't much to do on my phone so i ... . every semester, for teacher-parent conferences i guess, teachers would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  changing majors, so anyone desperate for help or advice can hit me up at ... requirements, finishing up the GIRs, avoiding schedule conflicts, and trying to ... search for classes by number, and filter by different categories, which

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  A/N: This post is coming out weeks after I intended for it to; please ... Friday nights, so Saturdays are my ‘off’ days; I get up around 9, waste a ... some 3E lounge or other for the rest of the day. Sometimes, I go to the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023