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• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  (funded by one of my departments, Foreign Languages & Literatures). The ... government. One of the great perks of being at MIT is that all this stuff gets paid for, as I'll discuss more at the end of the post. There is some

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

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  Two weeks of class have already flown by. Problem sets are perpetual ... begun working towards my degree has settled in. This semester, I took 54 ... credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  of the womb, who were building robots before they learned how to walk ... seemed mapped out for me: follow the degree requirements for whatever bio ... was it really was what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? ...Then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental concepts with approaches of process design. Emphasis on problems that demand

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  First Post A little about myself.

  Hi there, I’m Jenny Rifken and I am the new Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions at MIT. I’m so glad you’re joining ... ER or Ally McBeal of admissions. But I digress… I fell into admissions

  • by mitblogs
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp in Borrego Springs, CA. The beautiful photos are by Peter Vanderwarker. All of them can ... tetris’d their bags into the bottom of the bus, they collectively smiled

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Your Early Action Deadline Questions The deadline is this Monday, November 1.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... some anxiety, I'm happy to answer some of your last minute questions ... showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog of materials in our processing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Boston this summer in my sorority house with a kickass river view of Boston, I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... representative of the city itself) once a weekend. Honestly, the activation energy

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  note, with some degree of amusement, that in the case of the example I ... thousands of dollars that are flowing back and forth on paper between you and ... had a lot of papers out, and was frantically scribbling numbers on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  this summer, which is sort of embarrassing since I keep making reference to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on ... , from all over the place: BU, University of Kansas, UVA, Macalester

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  --just one of the many things they'll let you do with an MIT degree. Here's me ... is Russ, after about 30 miles of biking: As you can see, Russ ... PhD because he could kill me with his bare hands" kind of way? Maybe

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  HAS A HEALTHY AMOUNT OF CAPITALS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!   ... students, so it's best for everyone if logistics are handled ahead of time ... today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  One of the most mindblowingly awesome people I've met in my six years ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  any point in time, someone in our room was rustling and some degree of ... beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very ... sided sheets of paper with prompts like "Who do you want to live with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  degrees, in every career field, with the obvious exception of the five or ... During a pset party last night, one of my hallmates called her own ... that impacts millions of strangers. A biologist can publish a paper that

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  wasn't a result of sleep deprivation. I was bored out of my mind. The same thing will happen with Lord of the Rings, Chronicles of Narnia, or pretty much any other science fiction or fantasy movie or series of movies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  the sheer lunacy of the idea). The Admissions office is chock full of brilliant people, some of whom you know from the blogs and others you don ... Admissions we don't lie about MIT. That kind of Zen-like simplicity is on par

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson ... are mostly low, with a few are flashing in a miasma of neon, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... Donuts is one of our favorite places in general: it is my and Cory ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : the view from on top of Cambridge's tallest building. The MIT Radio ... stand inside !!!). We also spent a good deal of time taking in the view of ... . (All the beautiful photos in the rest of this blog post are by Leif C

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020