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• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  In the past five weeks or so, the pace of my life has dramatically ... ’ve found myself with a lot of time to “stop and smell the roses.” There ... January. Some were finishing of UPOP seminars. Some had internship

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Reflections

  

  This past semester has been different than any of our other semesters at MIT (and even any of our years in K-12), in that we only took ONE ... same classes (often the timing of our schedules were different, but our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 5, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

  Amsterdam, to an even colder city up north. I guess I'll count that as part of ... incredible time seeing an entire array of landscapes and cityscapes that I had only dreamed of visiting one day: from the canals of Venice, to the red

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... found another cluster. I ended up getting coffee instead of soda and also

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... ? Well, it’s the start of a new half of college. This year, I was asked ... like one or more of my professors, but too many lucky stars need to align

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  deconstruction end-of-semester atmospheres

  

  at the clover food truck on the way. i saw lots of real people, shopping and eating lunch. i saw the verizon employees on strike in front of the verizon store, and i saw a farmer's market, and lots of tourists

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... math but which are, indeed, math. In particular, math includes many of the things we find beautiful—our very perception of beauty, actually

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... importantly, we're all here for each other. Well, I decided that regardless of the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the minute he walked through the doors of Volaris’ Samara offices, Tayo, MIT Sloan MBA ’14, was reminded that he was at one of Latin

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24 ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Action deadline is almost here The only thing scarier than October 31st is Nov 1st (just kidding, no need to…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... processing of all submitted materials. Items are not posted directly to your

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I ... the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the ... of my favorite movies and this movie knocked it of its throne. While I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... -- I made a point of eating at five Chipotle locations that I had not ... had to admit that, yes, this was now the coolest thing I know of that

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community ... so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY ... they are frosh.  This is called the conservation of frosh.  Since they

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Happy Thanksgiving! The Office of Admissions will be closed from ... Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool ... Program, which is one of MIT's many pre-orientation programs.  FUP focuses ... Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are ... tweets. While I love the revision that goes into most of my blog posts, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

        On the evening of June 6, 2012, a satellite with its camera pointed toward the sun sent the first 500 GB of its daily report back to base. Clouds covered the world thousands of miles below

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing ... thousand faxes and are working on processing them. In a small number of cases

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012