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  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in ... known as "Technology" or simply "Tech." And Tech students knew how to have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  fill in the blanks of grammatical exercises or to write contrived ... vegetables. You have to start somewhere, I get that. But sometimes I wonder if ... communication. Not only are we struggling to convey our own thoughts to others in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  , to chat about our mutual interest in astronomy outreach and how to ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  'm in no rush to see Pirates 3. And finally, if all else fails: Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  comparison, because it was kind of hard to get even those eight wins in ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... ask you, kind readers: How do you like to procrastinate?

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... want to. In the Friday's 3.091 lecture, Professor Sadoway delivered a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... up, Sam McGee, another judge, who hopes to get students more involved ... mattress parts (springs, foam, and polyester liners) to get people to think

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of 2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  classes number-wise to double major if I had taken them in the same area ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... friends and I went to Spain! And immediately upon landing in Spain, I

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  excited to see how it impacts the environment. i can go on and on about ... , you get the point: my home base this summer is a remote place out in the ... both in my life. i dont need to… pick? i feel like that’s a question that

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  to be terrible but I saw We Bought A Zoo so how much lower can Matt ... construction: "I didn't get it." (To be fair, he started watching after we had ... 's an original script. I like that it gets you to think about what

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  honestly so very cool when I get to use it in contexts that are actually ... pushed me toward 21E in the first place and to taking media studies more ... notes doc in my phone to write them down in case they came to me. (I would

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  I've failed you in the photo department. But I'll try to describe the ... was first announced. In her first speech to the community, she said "I ... better place." That's still a big part of her mission - to get kids

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Night Off Campus and some dancing

  

  get one. I put on a light jacket, text a friend who wants to meet at ... have the wrong place. We try a different route, and I get my phone out to ... yet. We'll know when they do. Already, I'm aware of how ensconced in my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  (Only in Texas can you legally drive 80mph on an Interstate highway!) This week, I drove about 1200 miles from my house in Arizona to the Fort ... around here and if you want to get around, you need a vehicle. I guess that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  to talk about things that they write at the bottom of lists. In ... and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... would get to it eventually a few times, and then I forgot a few times

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... summer season 3."]Season 3[/annotation] house in Virginia to the Season 4 ... things you'd find in your typical day to day household. Over the summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to ... out. in his post, sam wrote: Do new things often. This seems to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  when I ran REX events (still not). This year I get to experience R ... better in jello"? Now's your chance to prove yourself on the field of ... of giant cards). Today while my code is running I am continuing to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... MIT students here in rainy Harrisburg, PA), so I'm going to hold off on ... still wasn't enough to earn me my favorite grade in the class: an A

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006