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• Blog / MIT Life

  Home Away From Home Complete with Batman mask, kettle corn, and ticket stubs

  

  we hit a series of novels that starts with The Hitchhiker's Guide to ... 's Tale to Terminator 2. The second shelf has a pair of blank white ... there are a couple of CDs that mean a lot to me (from Regina Spektor

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  intentionally, I just ended up tearing up when trying to explain a situation. I ... . The need to look young and beautiful is a shackle, the kind that you ... looked eerily similar to my mom. Over winter break she showed me a picture

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... 's hard enough to come up with a brand-new product idea. It's even harder to ... on-stage without a major catastrophe. And it's hardest of all to do

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... leisure. We moved the couch to a new corner, but that left its previous

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  classes im taking this semester! the classic

  

  a total of 18 open lab hours a week that you can go to if you need any ... this class, and it’s been fun to learn and adopt a new way of thinking ... , commonly used as  a verb. ASEs give you an opportunity to test out of many

  • by Angie F. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  final. To be honest, it felt a little worse than a final because it was during a normal school week as opposed to during finals week. To illustrate ... through this initial job hunt, we realized there is still A Lot for us to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping on the congratulations bandwagon here (a vehicle that goes from 0 to 60 ... being so fast), but I've been up to a lot. More on that later, don't you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  then proceeded to not move it. Two weeks ago, I walked 21 miles as a sort ... walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a ... drink a little water, and I start to realize that I might not have enough

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How does one attain a Pirate License?

  they’re a challenge to complete.’’ So you best be careful whilst ... arrrrrrr! Come to MIT and earn your Pirate Certificate. All MIT undergraduates must complete eight points of physical education classes to graduate
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... , Microeconomics, and Thermo-Fluids Engineering). Overall, a great start to the ... distance, they’re far enough away to ignore for a bit longer. Happy Tuesday

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Summary of CPW 2006 CPW 2006

  

  follow Nance's "Beaver" act, but managed to draw a few laughs. I was disappointed to find out that people still didn't know what a UROP was! I have ... lab of a Nobel Laureate, get a paper published, and go to professional

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  , so we get a long time to decide our final schedules. I've been exercising this quite a bit with my switch to 5.112, adding my HASS - Disease ... , though, and I started to realize that maybe I'm doing a little too much. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  to have spent a semester looking at the world through the lens of ... , to chat with Prof. Jonathan Gruber, whose experiences spanned a PhD at ... , ultimately bringing him back to a professorship at his undergraduate alma

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  employed by writing new blog posts, and I hope to do about one a week from ... . Sometimes I'll consider a personal project I'm not attending to, or even a ... different way to look at it. One of my friends in Denmark and I had a chat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  paper and do that pset when you have a puppy to play with. Thanksgiving ... enrolled. In the spring Baker House usually drops a piano off their roof to ... "]it sucks.[/annotation] You have a week or two to drop a class and it costs

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  started and ended with the Net Price Calculator (a nice tool to remind you that you can’t afford a $60,000 per year education). I went to info ... didn’t want me to turn into a 30-year old cynic at age 18). Every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A Very McGann Christmas Happy holidays.

  

  The Christmas holiday is a pretty big deal in my family. On Christmas ... attendance. Just a few miles from my house is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 ... theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  biomedical engineering, join a fraternity, and try to engineer the human body on a microchip to name a few. So if I were to describe my experience ... years and here I am a senior at MIT. Interesting how that happens

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006