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• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop a glacier and in a cabin on the black sand beaches of Vík.  Here's a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is characteristic of less than 5% of the possible paths you could take. But during

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  exception.  The alumni told stories of the wondrous pranks and adventures they ... awesome research in the same labs where I worked last semester.  A bunch of ... on and on about stories of the origin of many of the most famous hacks

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  , won tickets and took my camera along for the trip. On the night of Ring Delivery, we went to the Top of the Hub for some cookies and a good ... 'aime and Oceans 13 for $3 each. The films are shown in one of the large

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  Last night, I attended a concert by the MIT/Wellesley Toons, one of MIT's a cappella groups. Towwards the end of the concert, Lee-Kai '07 ... ? "Army" by Ben Folds Five Great job, Jen '07! Jen is the president of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  were made at the Cambridge headquarters of NECCO (the New England ... finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... smell the entire stroll. Actually, Cambridge was once the center of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  my favorite read of the week. The front page article in the Arts ... Studies professor Henry Jenkins for reasons why the popularity of Rain has ... easily accessible foreign culture, too. Because of the "multidirectional

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  kinda feels like the end of senior year, the end of life as a college student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... ’s become an annual tradition over the past three years. There was the end of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  always liked the idea of reality TV - capturing real moments with real ... something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it ... I met David France, one of the other founders of the campaign. At some

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  here i go again i have watched Mamma Mia! seven times this year

  

  of performances involving people from the wing on the whiteboard. We ... : Jonathan, May 7th @ Big Cold River." It turns out that one of the ... of these initial conditions as possible, although this part of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  before I go off and become an adult. It's kind of strange and at the same ... reasons. A lot of the families I knew were deeply set in family traditions ... my closet in the form of my shoes or on a bike rack or at the bus and

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt ... of APs to the warm spreading feeling of “but I’ve taken X number of APs ... ? Defining my senior year by the future of "college." I can’t tell my past

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just ... -years could participate in, and I immediately did the online portion of the ... DO NOT put your hand inside the laser cutter. The second part of the

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll ... . Get the inside scoop before it hits the pages of "Wired." TechTV: Did

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to ... admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your ... fair amount of sunlight, especially when we forget to pull down the ... even when the weather gets atrocious, the warmth of the infinite is only

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  and informative lab working on the genetics of regeneration. Slicing up ... through the rest of term. Sometime over IAP, I started hanging out in the ... gig. If I was chosen to be part of the team, I would get to code

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... work of all the people who came before me, and how other humans were

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood. Once you've found them, you've unlocked the essence of storytelling. So, I thought I'd share some of the stories that I love. That resonate

  • by Ella T. '25
  • November 19, 2021