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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  if I can find one that fits in my schedule and one that I'm interested ... I don't make schedules or use planners. In fact, I don't even use ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  ’s dorm room in East Campus, I marveled at the student murals that ... just chill with us :) My project idea struck when I was wandering in my local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  " was not a good name for a train. Yo, I'm in grad school. How's that going? Well, not too bad. In a way, I can't seem to ever get away from MIT. Half the books I use in my graduate classes were written by my MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  ’s work! I asked several professors about openings in their labs, mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the ... a week in Niagara Falls. I enjoy spending time with my sisters, my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Contraception and Safe Sex at MIT! sexual!! health!! is!! important!!

  

  engage in safe sex, and even have a library of books that you can educate ... basic plan is included in student tuition. This is something that I didn't know coming in - I thought that because I waived the extended insurance

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 2, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  the table. I can't tell you how many people came up as I was standing ... uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I can't write a blog post! I can't mar this clean, polished page with my

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... experience with parties were mostly parties in east campus and small gatherings ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  graduate). Upon logging in for the first time, I was rather pleased to find that I had in fact already graduated from MIT in 2013 with a degree in ... . The first one I actually made looked like this: Which, in true MIT

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of a Second Semester MIT Student first week impressions

  

  prepsets for this week in class, skimmed over pset1 (which I don't know how ... !!!!!!!!!!!! I PASSED. I can sit in 8.02 without any qualms. 8.02 Woke up cozy and ... 't have that safety net of PNR and I actually, well, have to do decently in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 7, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  busy... and classes haven't even started yet. In the past three days, I ... can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online retailer of my choice. In other news, Mitra recently acquired a free i

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked ... , you can imagine how much running up and down this involved. :) That ... dance instructor come and teach everyone how to do a little swing. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... means I'll have to swing by the shop to make something awesome so I can ... light! I didn't take picture of the whole process, but I can walk you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  and composure and I was so, so impressed by how she handled CodeIt in ... , programming, and video games. I can't wait to see what they do in the future ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  pitches. So far as I can tell, people weren’t really forming words, just ... to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don ... good one, but believe me it’s just a lucky guess! (Read: I’m not a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all. What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... windows to keep out the heat. I mean — obviously. In Arizona it’s hostile

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia ... company at least once to see if I might be interested in them, or them in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  It's so nice to be graduated -- I can make lists of things that I ... that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... having a job impaired my ability to do my homework -- in fact, I've found

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  AOs write the “What do you do for fun?” essay Ever wondered what admissions officers do when they're not reading applications?

  

  —similar to how I marked my height in pencil on my doorframe each year as a kid ... I glide out on the ice in the 10-degree Vermont winter morning. I can ... -Mobile, I knew this as the best place to buy jewelry. In front of T-Mobile was

  • by Jeremy W.
  • July 9, 2021