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• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  secret life goal #11 is to get on television, I made a big show jumping in ... , meetings - and spend my nights awake with worry about how little I have to ... myself to New York Magazine during my breaks. Also, here I get an amazing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... are called so because of how simple these tools make it to mess around ... quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... definition of the word, you failed to get in MIT – but you can never believe in ... drills in its students – the capacity to fail and get back up ready to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Winter Through the camera lenses of people who don't have winter

  

  entire campus in a powdered-sugar cast.   It’s incredible how ... Around 7:15 this evening, it started snowing in Cambridge.   While heading back to my dorm, I ran into Kevin. The both of us being from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  plots in python? You do now. Don’t know how to fit data to a model? You ... [/caption] How are we going to find an object that we can get to near light speeds ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  look up a youtube tutorial on how to change a spare tire. winter in the ... together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent ... wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  inexplicable desire to drink soda. As in, I had to drink soda immediately or I would fail my test even harder than I was already going to fail it. I usually never drink soda, but I didn’t want to steal from my hall fridge. So

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I almost don't know how to get started with things. That same ... , not a crippling imbalance in work-life matters and how I deal with them ... 's couched underneath a few other stores in the area, it's hard to find, but

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  get my degree and get out. I also wanted to learn how to make cool ... So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea, I'm getting a little old, but it's cool. It's really crazy awesome to

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... message might get lost in the deluge. Lizzy also asked how early housing ... pressure to work hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  have already sent in a form detailing how much of that you plan to earn ... chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie ... ) anywhere in the Boston/ Cambridge area? Hopefully (crosses fingers)I'll get

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  buttons that allow you to zoom in or out, get background information and ... , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they remember, and how fast they can shift from absorbing facts and concepts to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  things to do, doing well in them, getting leadership activities, volunteer ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the class, relative to how other friends were doing on exams and p-sets. I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  alums happy to talk about what they majored in, where they lived, and what ... students throw their hat in the ring because they have nothing to lose! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  turn in to Admissions. While writing my essays (oh how time flies), I ... because there is so much to be done at any given time. Get excited for all ... certifiably socially awkward at home, it’s going to be unbearably bad in a new

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

    ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire ... Spiral of Doom? Never fear! It’s similar to what a lot of us used in high ... credit limit of 57 units. I used that opportunity to explore Course 1 in a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  were told to write a 12 page paper on a topic covered earlier in class ... at how the role of the onlooker has changed over time in different ... a topic covered earlier in class in a documentary style. We decided to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

    I learned some valuable life skills in Denmark, from how to turn on an induction stove to how to balance on a bicycle in unfavorable ... summer, a slow period in countries where people get sizable vacations and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  , you have to put the work in. It's hard, yes... You have to just get up ... about how important it was to do well in school." [...] McGee recalls ... head off to college. I'll often get emailed them, though this summer I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005