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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through ... for something sweet. However, for such a quaint little bakery, there ... as fast as possible, enjoying the flavor for a second and moving on to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  -up-the-stairs-without-knee-bending contests; watching math majors play Guitar Hero while I pretended to be ... cloistered at MIT with contact into the outside world that was tenuous at best ... school now and spend Winter Break watching other people play Guitar Hero? I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  expenditures for 4.111 materials will be manageable as I can no longer depend on the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art ... following is a crop of the syllabus we got for studio this semester. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  imagery a bit to claim the first Google search hit for “unreformed by Ikea.” My goal for the upcoming academic year is to expand into as much ... Manifest Destiny for my blog.) Anyway, the fact that I've used a legless

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  Overall, a good first day on the road. Woke up early, packed for the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me ... perfect match, but it's close enough for me. After that meeting (which

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  Thanks to Petey and Kathleen for giving me the idea to blog about ... were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... ’d been part of for a long time, that I knew a lot about and that, by senior

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  (for a visual summary of the trip, scroll down for pictures) “Let ... : choices are easy (unfortunately, because the options are few). The best ... have a memorial for the Salem Witch Trials’ 20 victims (if you don

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How MIT students are trying to change education by biking across America.

  

  cooked up the idea for this adventure. In the following Q ... conversation has been slightly edited for length. How did the idea come about ... sad or painful experience for many of my friends. How terrible! Learning

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman ... need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... saw Alina when she came to pick up students for tours after sessions

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  the MIT Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is organizing for high school ... , but if you can't be there, the award will be mailed to you.) So for those of you near Cambridge, come check out the fair! And for those

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are ... Contact (played by Jodie Foster in the film) Taz "Rat" Finch ("top of his

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  consistently for the past two weeks, and I’ve realized that after 2 years, I finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  essay writing fun for an entire semester! Because it is a writing based ... has the benefit of being in the middle of the week for those of us who ... -H classes, but the tutors for 24.09 were extremely nice and willing to help

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  around for summer UROPs.  I'm Course 6-2 (Electrical Engineering and ... designed to be used for research on topics like flight formation and docking ... competitions for middle- and high-schoolers, culminating in a NASA

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage

  

  that all the best food typically is served for dinner, whereas I don ... choices made for this building. The color scheme in particular annoys me, as ... ="I know theyre important for energy efficiency, etc,, but they have these

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  physicist with NASA. She is best known for the trajectories she worked on for ... the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... South America, but she managed to squeeze in some time for an interview

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... than normal cameras, which just calculate a color for each pixel and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... started packing for your adventure and I hope you're shaking with excitement ... fraternity. Going greek has been one of the best decisions of my life. And

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  best to make this decision post-CPW when you've formed your own opinions ... was a mechanical engineer, and it was pretty fun, but then I realized I ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  hours for me to fall asleep and it is really hard to stay asleep. At 1am ... just thrown up for the second time in two hours and felt awful.  This is ... not much more I could do, and I set my alarm for an hour later so I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014