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• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  and histories, with daily lessons in Greek, Latin, and philosophy for ... international volunteer organization that advocates for human rights and gender equality. The hope was that by sharing my story and my love for MIT, I would

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  turned out to be everything I had hoped for. At PlayStation, I was working on a client-facing team building a brand new feature for the Play ... setup was perfect for me. The first week or so, I took time to familiarize

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  and CPW--if you'll be on campus for CPW and want to meet up, email me ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the ... for several hours--there was a power outage, it was cold out, no one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  vs Cambridge for IB Computer Scientists (it varies heavily based on ... reproduce the answer. When you're completely stumped in a lecture for a course ... for students. This method of teaching is useful for those who understand

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Friday liveblog Let's see how long I can keep this up...

  

  "paper airplanes" made from Athena header pages [another use for header ... student, a freshman, a problem that other labs had been trying to solve for ... 've been trying for years!' 'Well, you didn't have an MIT freshman in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  So first off, props to Evan for answering all these questions in his ... : [email protected]... Well, that's what these blogs are for- to ... bunch of guy on Mass Ave pummeling a station wagon. What's up? Oh Ruth and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... came here, I ended up on 5th East, a place with a decades-old culture ... amateur musical theater shows or write Linux tools for fun or whatever it is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  kick it up a few notches, and I’ll have to grapple for those notches as I ... stared at the screen for another minute. “Good grief,” said the first, “and I wanted to run for president someday. What’ll happen to us if all our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts high school we went to, and for 11th and 12th grade, we transferred to a ... the arts here*. For the artsy admits, who are questioning if/how they

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  ( [annotation note="As it turns out, MIT housing policies allow you to have up to ... could just go for the next best thing (and probably the more realistic ... bookshelves at all so I ended up putting it on my main dresser instead and it

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  It's 9:05am PST. I told myself I'd wake up past 9:14, but either due ... year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  my plans for the three-day weekend. Sorry, Chris Columbus. I’m actually ... long for just one Saturday morning without a race on their mind and a ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... I said, 'Why pay for a yacht when we can just make a giant flotilla of ... up a barbecue grill on the leader raft, cook meat, pass meat around in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  , getting a feel for the demographics. There are no international students ... " "We encourage you to come up with your own procedure to solving problems" He's talking about how, for example, in Eric Lander's Bio class (human

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  ended up doing verrrrry bad for our standards. Boston, Massachusetts (1 ... and coaches made up for the lackluster setting, but I'm only ranking ... Sentimental Man"]Wicked[/annotation] - Yes it has not even been out for two

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  ’ll probably stick with applications for the project, and just try to pick up ... about my UROP for a while, but usually end up just UROPing instead as soon ... ’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  internship, like I've been telling people. It's a subgenre of sorts, meant for ... expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... godly figure shining down on me saying "Cami, computer science is for you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  Thanks, everyone, for your feedback on the admitted students parties ... was unscheduled, but that made it all the more better. For example, Les ... of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  [Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23

  

  , showing up in classics like the Delmore brothers’ “Freight Train Boogie” and ... for artists to hearken back to an imagined “simpler place and time,” as ... shadow I grew up in. It’s a truly lively city with a lot of diversity and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023