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  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax ... little closer, it wasn't hard to see that East Campus had a niche for ... to feel for a very long time.   my 18.022 professor has a

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch ... , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where ... living their lives, and to remember there’s a world outside of psets and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... before going out to dinner. Running is a great sport, but no one ever chose ... ’ve had a lot of chances to practice!). We are at Ben ‘12’s house for dinner

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  that I went on a bike ride for fun, instead of just to get to class ... one hand (since the other holds on to the broom). We used a volleyball ... /Independent Living Groups. It was great to meet people from all over campus with a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We even learn stuff here! There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  with a focus on (what else?) genetics. What I really want to talk about ... ? (By the way, here's a general rule to pronouncing MIT numbers: the ... listening to songs composed by Alexander Borodin. Borodin was a chemist by day

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 's difficult, of course, to generalize about a school of 4000 people, but I am ... repeat the whole process until you're happy with them. Give them to a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  extensively used a Google Doc to track all of my class assignments and personal ... how I wanted my agenda to look. Being limited to a single view. My ... . However, each assignment has a due date – what if I wanted to view all the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... felt like trying to pop a stubborn, unpoppable pimple. Before anything else, I want to make it clear that in my opinion, the class itself was a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this ... demonstration going throughout the event along with projects to build a mini ... I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  meaning to get around to. Here's one to try if you have a DSLR. If you don ... I've been home for almost a week now and I've done nothing but sleep ... refuse to wear anything else.) I've slowly been getting myself back to good

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to Costa Rica to work with their partners in a community to eradicate the ... to create a model for global engagement for students and their partner

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non ... dinner we headed down to Maggiano's Little Italy in Boston--a trip made in ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... .014: Calculus (single-variable) with Theory. Join me on a journey to 18-014 and ... entry to a helpful staircase. Gotta have a Coke down there

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  So all freshmen are assigned to a faculty advisor who helps them make ... advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... thing that's cut off to the left of the photo- that's a phone booth. For

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  assigment. If you're a prospective student, allow me to explain. During the ... things that are often made. I'm using this entry to warn you against a few ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  upcoming thesis defenses. Those posters have a kind of soul to them ... a computer moving text boxes around and sending things to front ... head about whether to censor the names on these posters. On one hand, a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  previously saw almost every day only once a week, at best. Everyone had to deal ... ."]met before[/annotation] but never had a chance to get to know well. I didn ... considering taking a Leave of Absence, compared to MIT students. This ended up

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  (REST). Despite my majors, I still had to take a Biology class that was ... program I’m applying to, and expressed concern about not having a technical ... your opportunities or access to resources. In conclusion, here is a list

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a ... it more room and confidence to gnash its teeth loudly and openly. In a grocery store parking lot, a woman forced open my friend’s car door to ask

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021