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• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in ... doing laundry is never a problem. The price of 75 cents per machine might ... without too much damage freshman year because, in a small role as a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  Saturday, which is usually the day I dedicate to doing pretty much 0 work ... how much I'd miss the class until that moment. The class provided so ... semester, the past few months in particular, have all been a blur, but we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  can hang out with anyone at any time. I realized how much I took this ... , so I'm about a 10-minute walk from campus. I'm staying in two adjacent ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  energetic bunch to begin with) so the wedding is sure to be a hoot! As much ... IAP is a wonderful time here at MIT, where the month of January is ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  how to dance. You know what that means? When you go to a party and there's dancing, you can shake it, much like one might shake a Polaroid picture ... 't bother us too much. We had a delicious buffet dinner and then about 90

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  the weekend was, "How much of MIT Blogs is real? Why does it always look ... Princeton is next week, and Stanford the week after), I hope you have a good ... to give you a sugered version of what MIT is like. This is real stuff

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  vibranium – a rare and non-renewable resource – is hopelessly unsustainable ... ’re actually both part of a five-minute-long educational segment about how modern ... bridges (and helpfully points out that the Harvard bridge is a steel

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  ’s definitely not because I’ve decided to relax too much and lead a quiet ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... messing up a prototype more times than I expected, and that engineering is

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  , etc. The environment is much more relaxed and gives students a chance to ... to find a cure for cancer. MIT's motto is "Mens et Manus," Mind and ... graduate. No, I'm not kidding. There is also a PE requirement (snowboarding

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  't see the genius in that one yet). Anyway, how is the music department at ... . Exactly how good is MIT's music? Well, I've performed in the Concert Choir ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  oneself with a wall of "But I did so much of this and that" does nothing. So ... itself is taught in a flipped classroom style to maximize working on such ... about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  , and, as it is here, it is often a very interesting story. Read on: I was ... , "How much?" I said, "$25,000." This was back in 1964. He said: "Oh, no ... Yesterday's New York Times had a nice piece about MIT alum Pat Mc

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  fandom How to psychoanalyze people Why is nuclear waste a huge problem ... Robots What is a Narwhal? The Architectural styling of I. M. Pei How ... hard copy of my schedule for the day. Here is a Google calendar

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  get things done. I would finish my classes, and then it is a time to ... . However, it is a little funny (and maybe a little sad) that I still get ... eating in the Big City. There is so much food! My favorite are Long Foods

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  grass, taking photos and giving hugs. Of course, today is not a normal ... . But I write with a heart that is also full of anguish – because it is ... . At this moment, let’s do what we can. I believe a place to begin is by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  weeks were great, I was making a little money, I got to listen to as much ... I'm what you'd call a product of prime time television. In my ... awoke every summer day at about Price is Right (10:00am for normal folks

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview: 10/20 Approaches Some thoughts on the interview, as the EA deadline nears.

  

  suspect that interview helped me quite a bit. At MIT, the interview is an ... his school. That was certainly a turn-off, though really the school is a ... is to be yourself. Treat the interview as a conversation, and as an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  ... Is it common/uncommon to go into Boston a lot or do people generally ... 't personally get into Boston much during the week, and on a weekday night you ... CPW, or throughout the year...how do you get to do this? There will be a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  . On thing that's strange about taking this class is being in a class ... a page from the book of NELLY! Because it is getting HOT in HERE!" We ... -Alaska Pipeline, and my three-member group is already quite ambitious ("Let's do a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  —which is a pretty common case for MIT students—then IAP is the perfect time ... basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... ! IAP Madrid (and now, London!) IAP Madrid is a program hosted by the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017