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• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  going to be a good night. At ten, Javi '08, Jordan '11, Dan '11, and ... listening to the soundtrack as I type, it's just that good. A skate home ... , wondering if it was a desperate attempt to keep the world from ending. That

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• Blog / Events

  Dang Right, We’re Cooler Than You On the eve of Decision Day (D-Day), I bring you three things that adds to…

  

  singer to come to campus and give a concert), and guess who came! :D (no ... ." Just watch the video - it speaks for itself. A big thank you to all the ... on a big show to the surrounding community, MIT alumni, and just anyone

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  in three or three-and-a-half years, four years feels just right to me ... together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... Do you know what it's like to only have two classes left to graduate

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  Jeremy Wolfe, who used to teach a wildly popular Intro to Psychology class ... plate and applied his physics knowledge to explain why latke is a “ ... .) Everyone was then told to fold their paper to resemble a hamentashen. Clearly

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... influences your relationships with print material. Is a viewbook as useful to ... Just got back from interviewing design firms. We're embarking on a

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  weeks ago - …the assignment was to construct a bamboo-and-canvas shelter ... had to sew a whole set of beds as well as parts of the roof cover?? Or ... literally consumes my life. I complain sometimes - okay a lot - but deep

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... to wrap up by providing a bigger picture. When we entered MIT in our

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  abroad, and it's been refreshing to not have to rely on my broken A1.2 Schwiizerdütsch to get around on a daily basis. Random things I've dearly missed ... subsidized to a mere CHF 500-600.-, probably the only reasonably-priced expense

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  ). This year, we rented out a huge house for all 16 of us to share, complete with a nice swimming pool, and even though we had to inflate a couple of ... . The tennis team has always seemed like a second family to me and the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got ... me a lot to think about. I'm certainly thankful for the opportunity to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  from edtech hoping to help students choose a career, a big problem among Lima students, to a website that promotes local artisans and their ... received an email looking to build a team of computer scientists to come to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering some questions The entry on commencement was just getting unwieldly.

  

  install a window AC in any dorm -- and you don't have to pay for electricity ... Gregor, you have to do a little bit of maneuvering since the windows in the high ... anymore. If I need to learn a new protocol, I usually ask one of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  a client that was looking for a way to use his iPhone to take steady ... injury with limited fine motor skills and it turned out to be a very ... iPhone. in our first iteration, we tried to bust open a few

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  .S., getting on a flight to Milan was quite a struggle. All flights to the New ... customer representative for an hour and a half to keep the second leg of the journey valid, I booked a bus to NYC and booked it there. Hence, when I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  . I got to hear stories about my UROP professor as a graduate student (I ... opportunity to do a little spring cleaning. There are few things in life more entertaining than making a pile of clothes to give to Goodwill while singing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  are a couple considerations to keep in mind when deciding whether to ... : * (generally) higher pay (investment banks can pay up to around $10,000 for a ... academia more * opportunity to live in a different city * opportunity to see

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  proceeded to…well…post a blog? And, that's it. I think we all learned ... So, let me tell you a story. Once upon a time there was a man who was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  to find a post-doc (two-ish year full-time research positions) which ... fellowship is an arrangement in which financial support is given to a graduate ... intended to support a student in a full-time course of study." In other words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use ... get the opportunity to do a more prolonged project where we get to ... ’s really a great capstone to a truly amazing and fun class. 2. We went to a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017