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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  : we can meet Two hours later, we’re at Park Street, one of the stops on ... central park in the middle of the city. We talk. He just came from debate at ... suggest we walk in a direction neither of us know. Alan knows downtown

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  -and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... -- after our family friends from Australia moved out of California. They are the sweetest! Reaching the summit of a 11k foot mountain, Mount Baldy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about to venture into the Museum of Modern Art with a friend from Senior Haus

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... -commitment sampling of the corporate workplace. This year, there were over 400

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  'm working on getting a better camera so apologies  ahed of time)"   I ... nevertheless every piece of your life seems to fit into the right spot. You ... buildings seemed to be the embodiment of innovation, the students I saw

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  replace most English exclamations, expressions of feelings, and terms. And ... . ‘18, who also approved the title of this post) Yikes! This is the negative counterpart of scretious, much like “secretious.” For awkward

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  as excited about the start of Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). Yet, after ... of our admitted students and those parents who are on campus as well ... attend with my child?" In truth, there won't be very many of them if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... something that touched me profoundly: One of my roommates when I was two years out of college, who had formerly been a bit of a track star at MIT, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass ... a trumpet, here's a picture of a trumpet: They're about the same ... ridiculously gigantic plate of fish + sweet potato fries + calamari EVER

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done ... bike.) To those of you who are still working on apps, I thought I'd offer a bit of unsolicited advice (but puh-leeze, you know you want it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe ... grocery store, in July. As for running, I don’t have many pictures of that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  me any significant pain. 8.02 (Physics) is essentially a review of high ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of ... bedrooms, two living rooms, a small study, and a kitchen. I spent most of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also ... International - like spreading LTI to Mexico), and one of the reasons I joined is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  be completely free of pets, save fish), along with an accompanying ... freshmen, Arielle Lubin had a litany of tasks to check off before classes began at Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week, including

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates are there yet the bottom bunks have all already been claimed. so of

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007