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• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  at the outset, but it makes tons of sense once you understand the ... interrupted by herdlike groups of tourists each morning, I thought it would be a ... you enough of the basics that you don't look like a total tourist when

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  of Germany to get to Prague hopefully at around 4pm, just in time for ... of Russia before entering Mongolia at it's western tip. Leg 5 ... "The mother of all adventures, the Mongol Rally is an 8000 mile dash

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  published, at least not until the later stages of the novel, a hundred ... fast, seemed sort of normal at the time. I write with every chance I get ... , most people bought the book at its normal price, but a lot of others

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT ... remember the exhilaration of dancing at the audition and the subsequent ... through songs at the end of the year and be reminded of all the incredible

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  like to major in those fields. At the end of the day, 5.111 in ESG takes ... classes at MIT. Filling up spots in a matter of minutes, beginner pistol is ... and proper technique was the name of the game. At the end of the day I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ho-dee-hi, hi-dee-ho, ho ho. How many digits of pi do you know?

  

  look at them. Sorry, what was I supposed to do? Pull out of my webspace without letting the pictures fulfill their purpose? At marching band we ... Wikipedia. I couldn't think of anything to blog about in recent memory, but I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Football home opener College football is as American as apple pie.

  

  cheering the water polo team to a 5-2 lead at the end of the period, we left ... .02 and 18.02 with the rest of us -- no "Rocks for Jocks" at this school ... I realized the other day that, despite the fact that most of you are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  keeping track at home). Pappalardo is home to a wide range of Course 2 ... present to you a virtual tour of some of MIT's machine shops. As you can ... , there is a wide variety of places around campus where you can get your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Cancer Research The history and future of cancer research at MIT.

  

  school, for more than 30 years MIT has helped shape the field of cancer research, from the isolation of the first human cancer genes to the development of a technique for delivering chemotherapy directly to a tumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  document. Looking back at my journal, it’s filled with all kinds of notes ... . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Inhale. Count to three. I stand, staring at my feet as a blend of laughter ... . May Mashego, the former First Lady of KZN. The women at fresh. Nurses

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  and Tyler from an event the Animation Group hosted. At the end of the ... true 😊) 7) Tickets from the Apple Picking trip at the beginning of ... president of Borderline, Jierui F. ‘20, gave us and the rest of exec at the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  each of the developers at some point during the summer. I learned so much ... I spent this summer interning at PlayStation. The office was in San Francisco. Aside from one of those double-decker tour buses, I’d never spent

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  while I was sleeping. One night, I dreamed that one of the performances at ... matching you with an MIT student host for CPW. With a record number of you expected for CPW, and a large portion of the campus hoping to serve as a host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  they don't have to. -Starting classes. By the way, getting up at 8:30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  Laureate Frank Wilczek. Wilczek won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2004 at the age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  of Phillip and Gina Smith. His father is an electrical engineer at BAE ... Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google Published: Monday, May. 22, 2006 By DAVID BROOKS / Nashua Telegraph At right

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  water.) I’m stuck in a bit of a situation where I’m weirdly better at the ... the style of several people I’ve met at East Campus (and West campus as ... a fire with friends at the end of the day. immaculate vibes

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm [annotation note = "I am actually ... postcards picked up at a writing conference many states away. I moved the lamp ... of American ensemble, and the light is softer now. I like it. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Write Academic Papers a look into how i wrote my final paper

  

  Over the past couple years at MIT, I've had to write a lot of papers ... ://cmsw.mit.edu/writing-and-communication-center/citation-formats/ for guidance) and include a complete bibliography at the end of the ... and Culture class: Each paper must be an original written piece of work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2021