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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  (ooooooooooh) HOW TO DO PARKOUR Music History Different dog breeds in New ... velocity of an unlightened swallow? Getting attacked by a dino How to ... littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I ... will describe to you in painful detail in a later post."]my three ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  our tireless devotion to describing, in unnecessarily sordid detail, the ... parents, and potentially anyone who knows how to use a search engine ... optimization in C memory allocation works any more. I just want to go to sleep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  own goals–in other words, decide which aspects of the job I wanted to ... , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... , I decided to focus instead on Education. I was planning to work in the ... 's responses than to construct a decent exam. It’s an exercise in multitasking

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  even before getting here that emphasize how well-known it is. There are ... womb can get an opportunity to do research. Here, passion replaces pomp ... About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  bore the slogan "It's getting hot in herre, so emigrate to Israel with ... getting e-mails from Hilleevery two days inviting me to all of their events. But whatever, I was a frosh and didn't know how to use Moira to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  Bluebiked to Star Market (off map) in Somerville to restock on frozen fries ... basil plant, so I bought another one to prove that I am, in fact, capable ... protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... food, I thought to myself, "Hey, the '10s are getting to campus just ... places to get food are." So here are five of my favorite everyday things to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  don’t fully get this one"]fourth order tensor[/annotation] is, how to ... genuinely interested in the subject that it’s hard not to get a bit interested ... in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  were, and how best to get there via public transportation. Public ... stops at 77 Massachusetts Avenue and goes to Harvard Square in one direction and across the river to Dudley Station in the other. As an MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  ’re scratching your head and wondering how exactly MIT is allowing me to take this ... normally have. Basically, to get sophomore standing, you have to have 96 ... ), but I personally accepted it because I want to get 18.03 (Differential

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  statistics. It's always interesting to see how you fared (especially since this ... Weekend! (CPW) So I never got to come to CPW when I got in, but after going ... sure to get hotel reservations (MIT has discounts with Marriott - you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  i’m catching up a blog about all the things i wanted to blog about but couldn't find the…

  

  couldn’t get myself to blog about because staring at screens hurts. So here ... Designers, this semester and I’ve been very grateful to have scheduled time in ... chance to say goodbye to in Cambridge when we left campus. Here’s a list of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... little better, and wasn't that always the goal in the first place? To make

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4 ... /grill/restaurant in Boston that has half priced burgers on Saturday). There are getting

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  : Get to work Check in with the director. Check in with co ... students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... nursing home. Now, I was in no position to be picky. I took both. There I

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020