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• Blog / Admissions

  New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.

  

  the lives of MIT freshmen? I think people are very curious about what it ... applications and the busy schedules of the five students. Following the ... , and Waciuma at the foundry. David from AMPS produced this episode of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  Lamborghini and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology started in October 2016 through a partnership with the MIT - Italy program of Dr. Serenella ... of 2017-- to experience the thrill of working in the Super Sport Car

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Last Sunday, one week ago, I moved out of East Campus. The hours ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course ... the moment of checking out still felt unexpected, and surprising: these

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... , on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... (actually this is kind of bothering me -- in Spanish II one of the students ... old age I cannot remember any of the restaurants he recommended). You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  summer, in no particular order. Enjoy. I have one foot in the door of Jaded Senior and one foot still in the hallway of Dear God What Am I Doing ... Peeling back the hood of the code scares me, because underneath it all it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  semester - and also, I've mastered the art of changing out of a suit in a ... grade system), but it was also a potent reminder of all the 2 AM nights in ... your GPA). There it is, 300 hours of hard work in the lab during the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  She came in through the bathroom window. The greatest construction project in the history of MIT--yes, even greater than Simmons Hall.

  

  Infinite like the rest of campus. It's a historic summer at MIT, for ... like taking a picture of a bathroom door at 1:30 in the afternoon in the ... coming. I hear that the interior of the new bathroom will be designed by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  Several things happened last week of note. Monday was the first day ... considering Thanksgiving is usually just the three of us in a big empty house ... family like mine. Unfortunately all this came at the cost of 2 full days of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  preferences about the domains of your required recommendations —  we want one ... than the sentence or so I wrote about each of Mrs. Moore and Mrs. Oliver ... email about letters of recommendation. A composite of these questions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the ... 't Massachusetts. #2 – Alchemist Show some love for one of the most notable ... : (Whether it's a scream of joy or anguish is a different question.) #3 – The

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which ... 40 bags of biodegradable (edible) packing peanuts and filled the lounge ... added. This means that they stick to the sweat that was seeping out of

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  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,…

  

  a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the minute he walked through the doors of Volaris’ Samara offices, Tayo ... at most 1.5% to the bottom line. There was a lot of skepticism

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  the early UK release date, and I absolutely loved it. A huge fan of the ... '15 and I visited Amsterdam a few weeks back one of our stops was at the ... video above, Heather Who, was my favorite of the bunch. Ghost Ship - Sarah

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I have to do between now and the end of the semester. Lately, this last

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  it. It's infamous for the inordinate amount of time that it requires of ... of the seniors in Mechanincal Engineering are split into teams, which ... "The Home") and all of the students brainstorm potential products that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  of us visited Girton College, which (I think) is the farthest college ... there's the apple orchard. I really wish we had taken some pictures of ... promise I will get off the topic of food (soon).

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures ... your friends or family. The hardest part of applying to college. The best ... togetherness, that at the most basic level, you're all going through a rite of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  new people and hang out with old friends, out of the fear that they won ... comeback in all of my classes in the latter half of the semester. Even then ... season. The deconstruction of what I once thought was right doesn

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a ... means we also have the fewest number of holidays this semester, clocking

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010