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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  Skullhouse): "ExxonMobil's Automation and Optimization Division down in Fairfax ... one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Virtual Fall, Real Performances coming soon to a zoom very near you!

  

  lot of other stressful things in everyone's lives at the time, so all ... fun together again! One of my friends is in the Shakespeare ensemble ... impart to you in one post. If you are a current MIT student reading this

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  else I know from the class of 2022 are still here in Cambridge and on ... mixed up. I've been reflecting on the changes in bits 'n' pieces as the ... sorted out. 1. Where I live I used to live in East Campus, an undergrad

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the ... . For the most part, we’ll treat your questions like they were written in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Circus School Mitra flies like a trapeze artist; fruit flies like a peach.

  

  I am a very lucky duck, and was treated to an afternoon at the San Francisco School of Circus Arts. After some short training on the ground, we climb a tall ladder and stand on a tiny platform, where we get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  me for the abstract thinking I learned in courses like these. Bonus ... month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does your room look like? Does all the furniture in your room hang from the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  the Forum in Inglewood, California, where he brought out a gospel choir ... musical innovation, but also in his ability to continue to stay relevant and provocative in such a volatile, fast-paced media world. Obviously, he's said

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense ... school (elementary/middle school) and high school in Nairobi and was within

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  too.... BONUS: What’s in my wallet        My wallet has the ... They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or ... true that most people have a degree of choice in what they purchase or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I ... write whatever they want. It's an open forum, a place for prefrosh to ask

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  undergraduate students at MIT actually major in subjects other than math and ... primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger ... my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a ... of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  choices that come in the form of Freshman Learning Communities. Because most ... Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes and learn in an environment that better suits your style. The problem

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... (which all had the same plot, in case you didn't notice by the time you ... of stairs in two hours on Friday night. That's 12 times up the tallest

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  for something I don't understand or do you mean "Techer" as in ... "technology" in the more general sense. "Life of a Tecker" was the title of my ... welcome in comments or email. If you suggest something I really like, I may

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  the exact same credentials, I'm not confident I would get in. Admissions ... things you should do before turning in any essay, so they're pretty common ... . Don't flat out say X event changed me in Y way. Show how it changed you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on art in my dorm, East Campus. According to the MIT Mind and Hand Book ... to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  In August I celebrated my four year [annotation note="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services. Essentially, in the months when I’m not reading

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020