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• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... , REX is a time to enjoy yourself, meet as many people as possible, first ... I'm spending the day meeting with my first-year advisees before

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: “Nerd Epistemology” with Woodie Flowers from the co-founder of the FIRST robotics competition

  

  Office of Digital Learning around the idea that we need to bring technology ... the Festival last year here. This year, I wanted to be more involved. This post is the first of a series of three posts about the Festival. It

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  the first problem set than I ever expected to learn in two weeks. This ... . Hopefully it’s the first step to becoming a better programmer, so I can ... The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  industry for a bit first. My intention has been to work in the industry first ... to do the thing in the first place. No single decision could ever take ... I’ve mentioned a few times in the past about being unsure as to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James ... Hopkins to talk about her work with zebrafish and cancer research that ... mouse person to a fish person" and how a trip to Germany during a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking + Evie Pix Some quick updates.

  

  Hi folks, First I just wanted to give mad props to the kind folks who ... : A new enhanced portlet will be launching in the next week to 10 days ... feel free to contact my office by email at finaid(at)mit(dot)edu or by

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2009 note #2

  

  awaiting your Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) video introduction to MIT's dorms, you can watch the trailer here: 2005 i3 Trailer ... lottery will run June 1-17. As a historical note, I helped to secure the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What’s happening at the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies?

  industry partners work together to develop technologies that advance soldier ... research to create new materials, devices, processes, and systems, and on applied research to transition promising results toward practical products
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How hard are courses at MIT?

  how to use them. Professors aren’t as concerned about if an experiment ... uncommon for exams at MIT to be open book; we don't want to test rote ... to collaboration: problem sets (psets) are typically completed in
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the housing/dining options?

  undergraduate experience, and all first-year students live in on-campus residence ... choose to join a conventional meal plan with access to dining halls, or you might prefer to live in a cook-for-yourself (and often, your friends
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  RUSH RUSH RUSH RUSH So much is about to happen!  Electrical ... -creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side dorms (assuming Hurricane Irene doesn't get us first).  Freshmen will

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spring Break post

  

  Hi, readers. Congrats to those of you who got in. I remember when I got in. It was my first college decision, and I was so excited, and so ... the end in itself. Take advantage of what MIT has to offer you, because

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 29, 2007
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this ... 've brought you both here today because i need to announce a decision date for early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Spring From Student to Grader: My Unified Engineering Story

  

  Classes Is this what it’s like to be an upperclassman and only take ... 'm excited for all of them! Today I had two of them, and tomorrow I'll get to ... , and have no class at all on Fridays! First, there's 17

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  my first trip to the farmer's market in Boston, on a lovely Saturday ... lot on my first trip! Although I've been to farmer's markets before in ... in your head). I forgot to do this at first out of excitement, but was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a ... So the first night in Rome was spent pretty casually. We arrived at

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  re-orienting REX et al.

  

  circumstances']move in.[/annotation] I was one of the first people to move in and ... first few days at MIT in the sea of faces and blur of names, hoping to ... events for first-years to get an idea of their cultures. at the end of REX

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  ON MY FIRST TRY AND THEN I MESSED UP :( My cup was going to be ... attempt to rectify my wrongs of the first class (aka the Snowman ... very first class was safety day. Why? Because glass is super hot, and

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  to go through all the floors— that feeling I got the first time I ... first time; for the first time— You learn how to navigate MIT. It ... particularly memorable. Until eventually, my standards raise to the point that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  bedtime by a couple of hours. To first order, I'm sleeping as I type this ... Today, I felt: angry and heartbroken. Because: the first question on my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009