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• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  who are also passionate about advocating for equity and inclusion. Here’s ... MIT’s undergraduate population is 18% first gen? For students who are

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology ... , the Executive Director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & ... , this law infuses transparency and public accountability into a city’s use

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Doing well??? Uh, sure... I guess

  

  ://giphy.com/gifs/IQ47VvDzlzx9S/links   Ah, I don't remember :( but I do have a blog

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • April 3, 2019
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  our selection committee (just kidding, it’s much less fighting and much ... ? Some of you may be wondering, what’s the point of visiting in the first ... career. Here's a good one I enjoy: Do notice what’s going on outside of

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... to our surprise (and probably most people’s lack thereof) this was the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• 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 ... , Frédo Durand in graphics, and Hanspeter Pfister at Harvard’s Visual ... our group consists of three MEng students, a Master’s student from

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  ’t accept my friend’s 5-dollar bill. A normal person probably would have given ... vending machine. TWENTY MINUTES. Like, that’s a long time. Also, searching

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Regret… less-than-optimal decisions I've made in college

  

  -up plan. But I really shouldn’t have been so concerned (there’s still enough ... events or other people’s projects and stuff, and I really should have ... , who’s been awesome to work with) and thinking a little more before

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  fellow FIRST alumni out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products ... lottery and pack into Kresge, MIT's largest auditorium, with overflow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... possible." (Kyle S'16)

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  6:00 this morning I was tugging my carry-on across MIT’s campus on the ... belonged at MIT. I think that at some point in every college student’s ... friend group—I feel like everyone on campus is worth meeting! Plus, there’s

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  , it’s been a lot more work already, but actually, I think I enjoy my ... yourself so far! As a recap, my name’s Selam; I’m a 2A-6 (Mechanical ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  forth. "Jansen’s Strandbeests — “beach animals” in Dutch — seem more like evolutionary inevitabilities than one artist’s brainchildren," wrote Sharon Lacey

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  entire life: my family’s house in Los Angeles (one week and 18 years ... world. That’s my goal for the next four years and beyond. In lots ... have become a Frankenstein's monster (yes Frankenstein's monster

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / En Español

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  America’s youngest, fastest growing, and most successful airlines ... hard work, collaboration, and fun. All were elements of Tayo’s

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  decision”) on your screen. So you wait a bit longer. That’s all you can do ... , you’ll do amazing things anyway.” I can show you all the world’s ... it’s not you..” “I know!! I mean, sorry, but I know I’m less

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  should also look at Andrea Silverman '05's photo essay on the Glass Lab ... Ragnar, my friend Allison C. '14's cat, on Loop, with a spider named Spooky

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  the next cycle. During Ceri's admissions excavation she found some ... questions.  So here's a different sort of question: what should of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  across the globe. On the far left is Plato’s Gorgias. There is a ... read in Prof. Diana Henderson’s wonderful Studies in Drama course at MIT ... Gunn a little over a month ago. Actually, it’s probably more accurate to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  to the class of 2018. If there’s an event in your area, you should ... Chorallaries, MIT’s oldest co-ed a capella group. (They are the group I sang with

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014