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• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  about how to upload to this Athena locker, only Ben is a crazy Mac user ... , but my 2.009 group is currently going in a different direction... Oasis ... Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  tourists, and therefore, studying this career in my homeland is like making a ... studying abroad is how expensive everything seems... In fact, the annual cost ... you learned some of these? I now know how many hours are in a week and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  . Traffic in India is bumper-to-bumper in a very real sense. Take a big road ... Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a ... horns every second, toss in a few bulls for good measure, and you have

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  here's just one example of a) how hands on the class is, and b) how it ... occurs when the organic matter is heated in a low-oxygen environment, which ... . This piece of wood is a place-holder in the center of the barrel

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  .) Running that evening was surreal. It felt like we were in a tunnel of snow ... professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I ... -distance. Luckily Ami is a physicist and her hat is science-magical and they got to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  art is also a history of agriculture, marking humanity’s complex relationship with the land...In this era of impending climate catastrophe, it is ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  anymore! But now that I finally got a smartphone last month (I <3 my Droid X), I've been finding myself using Twitter a lot more. So if you're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  . Look at all the grass around it. Look at how tempting that grass is to ... me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  colors of spray paint we found in the cabinet. Yes but what does a ... and ended up disappearing in each picture. However, I did get a nice ... /astro is nuclear engineering and even they don't have jet engines. If you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The career fair and emerging pop stars Thinking about life after MIT at the Career Fair...and then watching a fellow blogger transform…

  

  that does tissue engineering research in the lab of a certified genius ... set-up booths in our athletic facility to try to recruit MIT students ... internships as well. It was quite a spectacle, as 3500 MIT students and alumni

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  checked them out in the Student Center, and we had a great time. Jackie's a ... Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow, Quick, Quick, Slow That count resounded in my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  convenience. - When I was younger, so much younger than today (in high school ... with my editing, probably, since a lot of it had taken place in the early ... . EVER. After the first paper, everyone in the class found a speaker of a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  . We realized just how dark a house without windows is under diffuse ... "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... doesn’t get stolen. In the darkness, I hear whispering sounds. Is it just ... apply to grad school. Your life is so much more than sets and lectures and

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  . Or intelligent. Or determined. But it is just a crosswalk. And some ... . I could've still been in high school. I remember talking to a friend in September. I asked her how MIT felt. For the first time, I didn

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  places and to travel broadly in your time away from school. Just a month ... at night, because one of my secret dreams is to work as a multilingual ... ? ;) This is the obligatory "oh-wow-I-can't-believe-how-fast-time-is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  like the plague, so being willing to practice it is a huge first step. MAS.111 is my HASS (Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences) class and a ... , written, and online presentations of results. A final oral presentation is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  thought we’d go into a part of MIT that is seldom seen by public eyes. You ... is even a little intimidating for me, and I’ve been a student here for ... free food is okay). We begin at the beginning, when I, just like many

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  story follows him learning how to use his power in a low stakes opening ... grow so much during these months at home. I’d have a job, I’d make lots ... - a movie i haven’t watched except in passing. He was beating the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.

  

  course, this did not happen. I wrote a message in the blank space to the ... with the spreadsheet, there is now a FORM you MUST fill out if you want a ... . He dissented to the entire class of 2012 in a very politely worded

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 20, 2008