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  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  College of Computing. So I thought I'd ask her a few questions over email ... One of the strange things about being 10,000 years old is that, while I've been tooling away judging teens, some of my classmates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  wouldn’t be the best use of my time.   thankfully, on the way to my first day of web.lab, i received an email letting me know that i had been ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure out what to do after we graduate.  It’s scary.  For the past couple of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  Heads up: I'm not sure if any of this makes actual sense. This is ... canopy of grey and I had woken up feeling this odd sense of emptiness. I ... school hallway accosted me with a new bundle of numbers. It was

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  After receiving decisions from the colleges I applied to, the choice ... fields of research. Regardless of the major I end up choosing, I know I ... ’m initiating this life of research. At the time of applying, I was dead set on

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  ! The experience of college has so far been incredibly fast-paced and ... for some logistical reasons, and then the start of the semester was ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  really in front of you. Munch on some (free) lukewarm fried plantains. For ... lights.   (pictures courtesy of Banti G. ‘17 and Emma F. ‘15)   ... -pset activities range from cartoon viewing to wrestling. We have pieces of “art” on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  As of right now you may or may not have a job. I got my first job the summer between junior and senior year of high school as a carousel operator ... school year, and then worked the summer between high school and college. I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  -word gets thrown around a lot these days, which I think is sort of sad, since in the long run that only degrades the full impact and true value of ... to these very blogs, as - quite simply - a labor of love. Everyone in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  The CollegeBoard's Website for information about the exams, and all of ... 'm happy to report that I feel much better now. I was seriously out of it ... of right now, the corners of my lips are raw, and I still look like a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  Today does a cool piece on Helen Greiner '89 SM '90, founder of i ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... . He's gone through a series of various door-opening mechanisms over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my ... ), I headed across campus to the bookstore. All of these are highly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  than sad about starting college. I'm getting a little tired of every ... . Then there's seminar advising, where your advisor leads a small group of students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  You may have noticed that I've been playing a lot of video games ... 've been playing a lot of in the last two weeks is Slay the Spire, a ... , that's a lot of hours for a game I've only owned for eighteen days

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  College of Music, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Museum of ... roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  powder.) (The great thing about cooking in college is that regardless of ... around to eat it. Never underestimate the stomachs of hungry college kids ... beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... ! Some of these go back pretty far, but better late than never ... required 2 considered? And does MIT (and other colleges) accept the new

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... , instead of what I’m doing right now. tick This is [annotation note='like Las ... quietest moments of the night, you can find someone mulling away over work

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024