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  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... summary: I am taking 6 classes for a total of 69 units of credit (courses ... professors are adamant about not making that the purpose of the course. 6

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood of my old ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax. Everywhere I turn my head, I see vibrant signs of life. People are painting

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ducks instead of koi fish) Oh, and every room comes with one of these

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Holidays from MIT! Images of the Season

  

  Happy holidays!!! Right now, some of you may be frantically ... memories below. From the Department of Chemical Engineering: (drawn on the windows of building 66 during the 2014-15 holiday seasons)            From

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... , occasionally venturing out into the streets of Boston to take some good snaps ... general has been very productive, especially for me. Spending most of my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs ... too. This one's a bit rough around the edges, mostly made up of video I ... hopefully IAP means I have more time to actually execute some of the blog post

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  've taken full advantage of this year. Department Lectures     ... paragraphs of text are incomprehensible and there's a severe lack of the word ... in. A lot of the research that is being done is years from becoming

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / En Español

  Fitting in at MIT as a Latino family weekend 2014, day 2 and what I learned

  

  as a Latino. And a huge part of it is thanks to the ardent strides the MIT community takes to make everyone feel welcomed. There are plenty of ... Science and Engineering) APR (Association of Puerto Rican Students at MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of ... weird accumulation-of-facts thing that I do constantly? Am I going to be ... had been fairly quiet through the first half of high school, and it had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Time I Underpacked a trip to Istanbul, courtesy of MIT

  

  . The class, taught by the director of the Media Lab's Mobile Experience ... disciplines, so a unique mixture of architecture, computer science, design and ... Google Glass, and each team of two would be working with their own pair of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  left before EA decisions. Given that the average length of a TED talk is ... myself. Some of my favorites have been: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life   How schools kill creativity This video is a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT: Coding over Cookies sights from the hackathon [pictures inside!]

  

  One week ago, an eclectic group of ambitious young men and women ... a steady flow of snacks that ranged from burritos to late ... hallway lined with air mattresses for catnappers, and throw in a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing whirlwind of psets ... . At the beginning of January, I flew back to Boston for a month ...  externship program is a pretty cool opportunity for MIT students to take advantage of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... , check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office ... !), and they document a lot of their work through pictures and blog posts

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  actually was a hack there! Floating in the center of Lobby 7's dome was a model of MIT's famous Green building. Interestingly enough, this model was ... (unfortunately, the rippling surface of the fabric made the code hard to scan), one

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  Nina Sinatra Class of 2012 Materials Science & Engineering ... students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers (: Hello everyone! I’m Kirsten, one of the four fabulous freshmen MIT ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  mark it and move on to the next part of the application. For some though ... an ethnic category through no choice of their own, had it easier at ... -other-category-you choose students. The difficulty with school wasn’t due largely to rigor of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... of dead trees and ancient power lines. So I figured I'd come up here, hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011