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  A Day in the Life Liveblog of my Thursday complete with (not so great) pictures

  

  wanted a look into classes, I kind of summarized mine at the beginning of ... her about her experience teaching at MIT (and overall career/life, of ... I decided to share a day of mine too! Quick disclaimer: I thought it

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gangnam Style Yes...........this exists.

  

  an MIT Gangnam Style. At the beginning of October, I started seeing ... , and now has the third most views on all of Youtube.  560,719,326 views, as of 8:23am today. 560,719,327 a few minutes later, because a friend

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Beacon Hill in the Fall More door.

  

  Financial District, to the right at the Boston end of the bridge. Beacon Hill ... Northeast of the more frequently mentioned Harvard Bridge is the Longfellow Bridge, which connects MIT to Boston from the Stata Center side of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 17, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  , or none of my writing at all, or an author whose name was circled, or ... stained. It sat crisply in the back of an army of papers simply staring at me, my name sat proudly in bold at the front of a line of far more

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  common of a name and coming to MIT confirmed those suspicions; there are at ... years I’ve been at MIT, I haven’t become any less of an introvert, with ... , the guaranteed hard times at MIT mean that the depth of friendships will

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  -sets; sometimes there are not. At the end of the semester we write in ... took at the same time) formulate a proof. This was a huge amount of ... of power at the intersection of fields. It is valuable to be able to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  number of artistically talented people at MIT. Maybe you're a quarterback ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  when I was little (at 3 or 4 years old, my grandmother took care of me ... of course say, “we are Americans”. But when I looked around at my ... ’t believe I was really Chinese, always looking only at the color of my skin

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  glimpse at my jobs spreadsheet. i had shortlisted and applied to most of ... relevant experience for. A lot of people shoot their shot at literally every ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Critter gaze upon my son

  

  green plant patches to spring up at the bases of Pocket-colonized trees ... , a class inspired by Charles and Ray Eames's short film "Powers of Ten" which features [annotation note="Last week we heard from Skylar Tibbits of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  '07 spoke at the Class of 2010 choice of major fair on Monday. I wanted ... listening to the answer, like, at all. And I ended up kind of majoring in both ... ! It was for like 30 seconds, for a variety of reasons, but it was cool

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  of everyone at the Institvte in front of Killian. I don't have a ... Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  i don’t want to say goodbye sorry sad blog incoming

  

  volume of the angstiest metal we could find, heartbroken at the thought of ... , tidbits of which I've documented on the blogs. Living at East Campus has ... from Tetazoo and up five flights of stairs at tEp, where I'll be living

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  given me a glimpse into the life of a liberal arts student, a life very different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem ... am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies ... climate of despair and misery, we finally go crazy. All rationality is lost. We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  , experiences, ideas, and people. I found overwhelming amounts of those things at ... table, it was convention for the cook team to gather at the base of the ... summer residents at tEp. The first house dinner was an exciting blur of new

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing acronym. at the beginning of every academic year, the mit list visual arts

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep ... networking. It opens a lot of doors--for example, my internship at the New

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011