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• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  culture and attract well-matched new residents. I've embedded a PDF below ... I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before ... Exploration, or REX for short, which is part of how housing is assigned

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... as they can because they don't believe in themselves enough or they don't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  then, I've been in a bit of a rut. I've been freaking out a lot ... relevance to the fields I want to enter. In the past couple of days, I ... (see: very little) experience in. I've also been continuing my major

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  REX and the City New York, New York, and other answers to your other questions, too.

  

  has a question: Jess, I had a question, how do you get placed in your ... ://urltea.com/1p1d. You can only vote once per computer, but you can also use your i ... think a vegan would survive? I am in fact a vegetarian at MIT, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  this exploration, in the midst of all these new experiences, I side ... ="A lesson I unfortunately learned the hard way in the past…"]can cause colors ... [annotation note="Essentially, I am starting my MEng in EECS while completing a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  call New York City home. You may know Fabolous from his songs such as "I ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and ... the past. In honor of him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

  Spanish Incubator, where I would study Spanish poetry and literature in the ...  not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... semester in CMS.300 Intro to Videogame Theory. In addition to this, I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  officer in the month of April, naturally, I was at still at work. I was ... of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  our defective sand bath back to New Jersey. You can read all about it in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... in an MIT laboratory. Nobody knows how it was even physically

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on ... was also stuck. “I just keep trying these methods,” I told him in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... reading americanah. everyone in the book is a caricature and i love it. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  Bridge:     When I bike back home in the afternoon, I have ... ; Usually, I'm biking home in the sweet spot of post-rush hour and pre ... . Somehow, there was no traffic coming. My bike was on its side in the road. I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  an official transcript with your QB application, you can request an ... (located in the MIT application portal) after you submit your MIT Quest
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?

  

  thing. I'm the only new one in this picture, I'm sporting my new red ... March 22nd in Copley Square. "Hm," I thought, "wouldn't it be cool if ... stood behind the girl in the sweatshirt. Michelle and I just stood there

  • by Snively '11
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Class Projects

  Product Design Lab Wakka wakka wakka

  

  Maddie and I headed over to help set up the brand new shop and check out ... can't wait to use these!) When we first showed up I was assigned to ... of bits to open. I don't know how many of you work with wood or are

  • by Snively '11
  • March 11, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT ... from the airport so that I could show you, step by step. Keep in mind ... to read anything in the picture above. You can see the map online here

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT ... no home and no place and no thing that is perfect. I love MIT in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Break To sleep or not to sleep?

  

  , realizing I have very little idea how to do it, I let my eyes stray to the ... your throat as possible in the shortest amount of time it can. An example ... which are kind of crude and can readily be found on Facebook (I'll leave

  • by Snively '11
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  (minus Bexley…), and participated in more events than I can keep ... simply "Rindge"), the only public high school in Cambridge, MA. I must ... thought I'd try it since I've enjoyed reading the blogs on MyMIT. I can

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008