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  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  navigate whether that community is the right one for you. A great line I ... can help you reach out for help when you need it and find peers who ... student tour guides sign up because they want to answer questions. Ask away

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  sure to meet many like-minded prefrosh. Lots of prefrosh sign up for UROP ... thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2020! Get excited!!! For the past ... visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar event

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  for it, but the number of classes you take doesn't determine you at ... stuck with four classes per semester for most of my time here: freshman ... count. The result has been really quite nice for me. I'm easily

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  . I finished just in time to cruise back to Boston for 4th of July ... .tumblr.com if you’re interested), and raised over $11,100 for Juvenile Diabetes ... challenging. I clambered over rocks, roots, hills and mountains for 20-30 miles

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  jewel that no one ever talks about. For reference, my four HASS classes ... this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation ... things about MIT HASS (by the way, it stands for Humanities, Arts, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  not do the same for its research? He saw it as an educational ... aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how ... high-profile work I had done for Amtrak. I am e-mailing you on the off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... 've been blessed. Can't remember the reagents for the reaction you have in ... " is unfavorable for a few reasons: 1) it's as cringe as it is cheesy,  2

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  Shout out to the MIT VPN for helping me climb the Great Firewall. Facebook and google are banned, but for some reason Facebook Messenger still ... summer--researching at the Media Lab and going to Ethiopia for the water

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly ... athletics facilities for a while now, so I think this is the perfect time to ... learned for everyone, especially during this tour today – whether you’re a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ,[/annotation] the massive flurry of dormspams as clubs begin to campaign for ... currently kicking my ass"]6.1210[/annotation] TA asked us for our favourite ... name for a New Zealander"]Kiwi.[/annotation] I’m sure you’ve noticed the

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... ) Freshman Arts Program trinkets: a puppet we made for our fiber arts group ... dinner, and our counselor portraits folded up 2) Rubber ducks from an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... ’d been part of for a long time, that I knew a lot about and that, by senior

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  , but knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t give up the community I have for ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I ... cannot speak for other schools. It is entirely possible that many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  -Centimeter Pillow and block-printed Feynman diagrams for the four primary Higgs production mechanisms. (I'm a physics nerd; not gonna apologize for that ... can do here. Thanks to Lauren for letting me post this. Oh, and it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  for her thesis before she starts medical school (she's up to her ears in ... 've been saving pictures of things I like and sticking them in there for ... this to the MoS staff member responsible for renting the facilities, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... my German dorm for this summer, laundry costs about half a euro per machine, but can only be paid for using a special laundry card, which can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  suffering for him to feed on, so we wake him up with a huge party that ... " mold. Basically, West Campus mocks East Campus for being "weird" and East Campus mocks West Campus for being "normal." Good fun all around, and I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  . You can't stop us. I’m fairly convinced that nothing can, except for the sweet and eventual embrace of death that comes for us all. But, at least for now, I’m not too worried about that inevitability. Some things have

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  recommendations. mcYunBaconBitz asked: "I signed up for MIT 2 other colleges, and a ... really look for the answer here on the site -- there's no need to ask basic questions, for example, about standardized test requirements or statistics. If

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... in favor of sticking with science, which, for me, was an accessible and ... note="I wonder how that'll hold up with inflation"]$20, 20 years from now

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022