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  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  .   I tried out technology that let you walk in virtual reality, a camera ... research on what the VR trends would be in 2017 and found out that a lot VR tech was going to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Events

  How to have dinner with your Professor and have it paid for by the UA!

  

  dinner with your organic chemistry professor-- which can be sponsored by MIT's Undergraduate Association! "WAIT FREE FOOD?" That's right. You and 2-5 friends can ask any of your professors out for a feast, to any

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  many people "in real life" for the first time. Please come say hi! Here's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  way and had a bonding experience that can't be quantified in lecture ... you might expect a typical freshman to take at MIT, in subjective order ... , so I just stopped going. If you can make it work, you aren't obligated

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  this right now. In fact, those of you who are avid blog readers, writers ... biggest was the general explosion of user-created on-line content. You ... expand it millions of times more quickly than ever before. You can see that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  interests. GoCrossCampus can be a very simple game. Each day, you will receive ... owns. If you wish, you can then command your armies to attack, defend or move. While it only takes 2 minutes a day to do this, you can get as

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  major. Cancel your meal plan. Come on, you can do better than spending $20 on stir-fry. Skip a career fair. Come on, you can do better than ... Bridge in the middle of winter. Tell people you go to school "in Boston

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In ... prep courses are helpful in that you have a structured environment that ... important. The AAMC has released 9 real MCAT practice exams that you can

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  WTHBBQ! Chinese Buffet! Spring 2008 courses, with a really bad analogy, haha. (super long post o___o)

  

  feel like taking the Physics GIR is like being at a buffet with all-you-can ... - which is how you perform in relation to the rest of your class). Thus, if you have a lot of very intelligent people in your class, it might be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I was in 10th grade (and since that was only three years ago, you can ... may or may not work for you. (I took a couple of online classes and ... Program also have summer classes you can take for college credit. Also

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My new job @ admissions like nick saban, but for nerds

  

  update in five years - to reflect my new role and responsibilities in the ... role and responsibilities in the office. This is a problem, but unlike most we take on here at MIT, it's a easy one to solve. As many of you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a class. I would, in a heartbeat, tell any underclassmen friendo that you ... validation you get in return feels good and satisfying and right. Sometimes, it

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  can be a fresh start. in fact, mit is anything you want it to be. i am ... it's you. At the end of the day, you are the common thread in all of these failed relationships. And maybe, in reality, it is you. It's you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time passes Someone left the cake out in the rain.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Milk-producing glands in mammals actually evolved from ... you get the Level 2 Water ring in the ice cavern, equip Wave on the left ... . In case you just tuned in, my job is to turn turkey carcasses into oil

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  . Why? Because it comes with a side of mashed potatoes. You just can ... toy presentation, and you can tell right away that she's really easy to ... everywhere. If you can't find them, you're just dumb. Sometimes I think MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  I think when you haven’t written a blog entry in almost six years, it’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... cognitive sciences in 2006. For those of you doing the math at home, that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  genome is written in about 3 billion base pairs, or letters. If you stretch ... vegetable goop. If you’re doing this with a group you can use the bottommost ... as white goop on the surface of the green or red goop. You can spin it

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  Confidential page. As you can imagine, with this deferral, I had to wait EVEN ... decision to doubting why you even applied. In the long run, everything works ... destined to from the start. Once you send in your application and do your

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  cool they are, and what online learning is like when you actually know it ... in april, i was sure that in september, i'd be on MIT's campus again. in may, as many things dawned upon us all, i realized i wouldn't be. as

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  in Connecticut? A spiderweb of cracks. The cost of pset help? You got ... -of-the-line when I bought it in 2020, but the powers that be had rendered it just about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022