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  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  about the hackathons that happened all the way back at the beginning of ... Family Weekend. I had a 6.01 pset due Sunday night, the last part of a 6 ... really due Thursday night.     After calling the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Makers @ MIT how MIT supports student creativity and craft

  

  manufacturers to share their talents and hone their skills. As part of the celebration, the President is hosting an inaugural White House Maker Faire, where more than 100 technically creative folks from all over the country

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  This weekend marks the notable milestone where, for the first time in ... . I'm currently working in the Space Systems Laboratory helping to develop a docking port for little satellites on the International Space

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  don't think I have to detail the personal benefit of travelling, but I can assure you that it is much greater than the sum of the complementary ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  I was confused when I was put into a room with three strangers at the beginning of this year. Two of the girls I had heard about in a very roundabout way, and the third I approached awkwardly when everyone had already

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

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  In the hassle of getting my life and graduation requirements together ... students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... 't spread them out, realizing they forgot about the swim requirement a day

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  the new school year, aside from seeing all the new, wide-eyed freshmen ... ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading glory as: "The first annual blogger meetup!" (Even though we've had one

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That fear of “falling behind” Exploring options @ MIT

  

  be engulfed in the so-called MIT bubble. Which basically means, getting so into the hectic rhythm of classes, psets, extracurricular commitments, that "soon it's like, 'Oh yeah! The rest of the world! I forgot it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  Imagine, if you will, the following situation... You join a dense ... people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of glasses to wear for the upcoming experience. You pass through another

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... , and attempting to imitate British accents as best I can. All the ... to post a long long time ago, regarding the epic IAP 2010 travels of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Movin’ On Goodbye '09//Hellooo IAP

  

  Wow; it’s already 2010. Anyways, Monday 1/4/10 marks the beginning ... Period), it’s basically the whole month of January during which …MIT ... of the most popular offerings that fill up very quickly include the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  2009: Let There Be Bloggers!

  

  Hello everyone! So should I introduce myself or talk about the 2009 Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of competition there are iconic achievements: the gold medal, the yellow jersey

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  of the technical aspects of blogging are maintained and taken care of ... , update the spam filter, yadda yadda yadda, and she also cooks! Pretty much without Winnie the bloggers would be wandering around in a confused daze

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  , which is totally serious, all the time. I live in Nest House, which is one of the few living groups that has Residence Based Advising, or RBA ... take, and then every week you meet for an hour and a half with the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes ... hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You ... the latter two options; Tuesday night is always so horrendously

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  pretty awesome. In fact, MIT has one of the best political science programs ... 's selection is pretty limited, but the classes are still great. (We only offer ... Italian is offered, and only over IAP.) The very first humanities course I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The gigantic Bayer sign in Leverkusen, Germany, where I worked last summer, is the largest corporate logo in the world. So I ... a little more comfortably, but after seeing the rent on my apartment

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  pass along some advice. Pardon the occasional bitterness. Learn Roman ... ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party ... an episode and missed most of their references to it; the most notable

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause I have no skills yet The world is a big scary place But somehow I can't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... 'd just be so excited to be a (fill in the blank here) grader. Things have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006