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• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  decided, for some reason, to leave a bunch of boxes stacked in our bathroom ... Rush. You have to look kind of closely to see him in this picture though ... courtyard for a brief time. It was pretty. In fact, his image just turns up

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the ... look useful. Suspension Fork: After installing the fork prototype on an ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  ECs will introduce themselves. They'll talk about what MIT looks for in an interview and give you some advice. This is also a good chance for ... . This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  really want an unedited look at what life is like as an MIT student... here is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... actually using up all the change in your wallet before you can accumulate any

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might ... arms in the air, and yells: "I'm SATAN!" The man at the register looks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  , he has given these panels an expensive "brush" look. :-) People are ... Three hallmates and I piled into a Zipcar the other night for a trip to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  we were prepared for fun in the snow. With classes cancelled, we spent ... for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to ... fraternity home was pelted with snow. Seriously, look at the view from our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... the most famous bakery in Boston, if not the entire world, Mike's Pastry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  story is... look for a majorly awesome update Tuesday night or thereabouts ... , instrumentation, etc...). For every excerpt, you got an extra point if you wrote ... off the week with an A+++ in 21M.271 and gradually regressed to a 54

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LOOK AT THIS. LOOK AT IT.

  

  I logged into WebSIS to check my term grades and saw the following at the bottom of the page: SUCCESS AT LAST. (Well, I still have one grade that isn't in. Whatever. I'M DONE, Y'ALL.)

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  an around the world experience, but in the end, I just couldn’t stay ... projects here in Germany, before heading off to visit an MIT friend of mine ... for grad school is having a harder time transitioning from an undergrad

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... you, can have an incredibly good influence. But this is all pretty ... ), and it's one of the true ones. Looking around just my floor, I see Vicki

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  house, looking for people to bother. I spot Noah in the basement. "What ... whole house comes over for lunch. There are twelve of us in all, and we ... alone in MIT again." We talk for a while about how we ended up living in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  blue sky through the skylight. (I did this yesterday for almost an hour ... headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  continuously forgot that Prague is in the Czech Republic for like, a decade? Ever ... ="121904" /] And that was it! In the morning I packed up for Germany.   What I ... . I don't like solo travel...at least, in Europe. I'm not an extroverted

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3 ... over and over. And sometimes I would look at myself in the mirror and

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  history of the Kazakh people in story and song, and went for long dawn runs ... information for international students here on our website, if you're an ... International Olympiad in Informatics. The International Olympiad in Informatics

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  .   You will soon have an ID card that can get you into E25 after hours. For ... to Boston from a family vacation in Toronto, I took the T back to MIT for free like I always do. When I first came to MIT I was terrified of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... prize in Physics for using cosmic radiation data to support the Big Bang ... Pederson won the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1987 for figuring out how to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  inside a windowless room in the basement for an hour because the door broke ... an interactive diagram [annotation note="The new numbering system is ... like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023