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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  Sorry I haven't blogged in a while -- I've been hosed with the deluge ... to the end of my third year here, I am astounded by how easily ideas ... buddy Tiffany, a Course I junior with a terrifyingly robust sense of work

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  , one in science. If you haven't yet fulfilled these requirements, I ... can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... would like to write on your behalf, it is a good idea to have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  -and-coding heaving schedules I’m used to. In a way, it’s really nice—I’m being ... of text, and the fact that it’s in French, I’m pretty easily spending ... lot of documentation in my future! Most notably: A few weekends ago, I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  can definitely say that I learned a lot and improved in both reading ... , that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the ... conditions of women at MIT. I have personally witnessed a shortage of women in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... : where we show up two weeks before school starts in order to start training ... the calendar. Postseason: where we play in our conference tournament

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... and I'm going to try to beat it tonight before finals really set in ... majors (this post is long overdue, I know). In the mean time, if you can

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I ... lot of words, but more generally I’m interested in the chemical traces ... "]FPOPs[/annotation] that I participated in or TA-ed, like my trips to Yellowstone. While not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Pumpkin Drop Trick-or-treating is not enough.

  

  pumpkin meet the ground in McDermott Court? How much time, in seconds, does ... mixed with the remains of over 100 shattered pumpkins in McDermott Court ... 54, was built on stilts in 1964 to circumvent Cambridge’s height limit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... thoroughly as I had hoped. For one thing, the integrals were incredibly, unbelievably, brain-screamingly difficult. I mean, it goes without saying that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  take, and I agree with pretty much everything in this article, but I ... the end of the world (I remember getting a fifth week flag in 5.111 and feeling like my world was in fact ending but this is okay, I passed and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  aren’t 500 days of summer, but I was too lazy to count how many there ... summer has been really fun. I really wanted to stay in Cambridge this year ... to it, and utilized the remaining 8 hours of my day in the best ways I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  I spent the beginning of this week in the company of a select group ... information session with a primer on our mission, so I think it would be ... inherent value of an educational experience on this campus, I also believe in

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  blogger application." While some days I'm in Cambridge at the MIT Welcome Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... ’t clear, let me know in the comments or by email, and I'm happy to help!

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  isn't that bad. So therefore your outing will be inherently great. "HOW ... guests confirm. Choose a date and enjoy! "BUT I'M NERVOUS..." Get ... conversation. :) "OKAY. I'M READY!" Excellent! To make it into this semester

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  was last night, which is always a lot of fun. I was in class until 9 PM ... . It was pretty funny when I looked at the sign-in sheet and saw the name of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  a day, Monday through Friday, I'm taking 6.189 - a crash course in ... A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  internal and surrounding art worlds. I am interested in the fine arts ... student life at MIT. Before coming to MIT, I had only exhibited in groups ... , designing the postcards and deciding how to hang the show. In doing so, you

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  friends from the MSA Nour and Iman! Finally, I would like to thank Paul ... this entry. I think that I am in business now! ... As far as admissions counselors go, I am relatively new to the MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008