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  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  communities in general is how much care goes into making the first year at MIT ... information) Concourse "is a small learning community that offers an innovative ... offered that meet a few of the HASS requirements. Terrascope is a bit

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  IBM/Lenovo merger for class. It was a team project on mergers as a whole, with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective aspects of communication. The final report, some 33+ pages worth, is due

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a fun activity. CPW is right around the corner guys, excited? I am ... , ate far too much food/sugar, and hung out with a ton of people

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  I managed to need so much luggage for a 3-month trip to Germany ... that I'm a senior and I can take pretty much whatever I want. The first ... by companies. On Friday, we figured out how to design a showerhead

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  beanbag is much better. Corkboard for jewelry I have a lot of beautiful ... sleep, which never used to be enough. A third, unexpected benefit is that ... made a cozy space that is also isolated: it has a window, some plushies

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  should have left us (opening the trunk on a Volkswagen Golf is ... 'all posted as to how I do this month about staying fed. Maybe I have too much ... , the eating is much cheaper than the MIT meal plan, so if this month goes

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• FAQ / Transfer

  How much does the transfer application cost?

  -blind admissions, so requesting a fee waiver won’t have any impact on your chances of
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  is more than a job. That's the tradeoff every admissions professional ... PI during graduate school, has blogged about how "walking is critical ... each case, I also open what we call the "eFolder," which is a PDF of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century ... more about how targeted advertising is placed on my Facebook, or how ... millions but also a cultish religion, or how Github has enabled remixing and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... questions was frankly a bit of a shock. And don't get me wrong, calculus is ... paper with a square on it. Notice how it takes two lines to "form a corner

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  -quality titles we got—and how much variation we saw. The bold text at the top is ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer ... Computing Group. The leader of our group is Zoya Bylinskii, a PhD student, and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  me, how much i had impacted them, and i cried a lot, and i let people ... teacher wrote. "one thing is clear: mel loves biology." he talked about how ... can do it. this is something much easier said than done, and i ended

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  questions to pose. Being simultaneously an MIT student and a writer is ... their prompts: "LOSS" (the monologue) "Soapbox" (the play about a box ... -changing activity) "Institutional Practice" (the play about a man whose foot is

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  , much later than anticipated, is a blog detailing life since that fateful ... by how hot it was. [annotation note="a humidifier is a must in macg ... group room. I was nicely pleased with how much space we had just for our

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  all-you-can-eat for every meal; how large is a one-meal kit? Is it ... section is also a cautionary tale about dining claims.  First, an important ... factor, in which case a meal plan is not advisable, see appendix). At MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Halfway Through MIT Where I’ve been, and where I’m going

  

  Mel: This is a guest post by my friend Mitali C. '24, a course 20 and a very lovely soul, who I invited to write a post anytime. This is the ... here. Two divided by four is one half, and that’s a little terrifying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  On abnormality

  

  was little, I used to always get a 96-box of Crayola crayons for the ... biology research is one of the loves of my life). So I decided to devote this entry to a small subset of the ways in which I am either unique (if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  in search of a reset day just out of reach

  

  ![/annotation] Played too much SET! But summer is over; It is fall, and I’ve started ... of reach This is a post about feeling hosed and wishing it would go ... . There’s worrying about whether a singular cough is a dry throat or a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 20, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  jolts you from both sides and you realize again, that this is not a place ... shame you thought you would only feel as a child while learning what is ... my messenger bag is different. From how I look, how I dress, how I

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  having so much freedom is sometimes it’s hard to choose: “I really like a ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza, maybe an AP Apple, a Boxed Mik of a Basic Language, and a Common Core

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017