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  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  straight to the Georgetown Law school from the airport. We had an hour or two ... TO SET THE MOOD: EX MACHINA SOUNDTRACK [caption id="attachment_45168" align="alignnone" width="1000"] Trying to say something that sounds

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . + People are up at all hours; if you're bored, there's always someone to do ... . The most important things to understand about tradeoffs: The freedom we ... ’s perhaps my favorite aspect of the Institute—the chance to grow in a tight

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  August, Airplanes, and why not throw in Spring Break, too? My traveling styles. And, I don't even know, maybe a catch-up thing?

  

  Montreal, we got through cutsoms and had to wait for maybe four hours at the ... that there are busses leaving south station to NY every hour for ... photos lol.. Here's a solid tribute to the importance of grades, but not

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  willy-nilly, because it is important to have a firm background in the core ... tuition dollars on classes that are important and interesting to you ... Language or Literature, you don’t have to take an essay evaluation over the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Putting The Pieces Together: Hacking at MakeMIT in which four biological engineers spend 16 straight hours making something

  

  MIT’s campus that brings over 250 students together to hack, make, and create to their hearts’ content for 16 straight hours. Hosted in the ... How many biological engineers does it take to make a motorized

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  now. To MIT, thank you. More importantly, to my friends, especially the ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and ... . I got to meet astronauts, hear Elon Musk speak live, and get expert ... fortunately well-positioned to get a picture. That's Michael Collins

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  old, I certainly hope this isn't the most important thing to ever happen ... is an important fact that I feel the need to clarify: MIT Admissions is ... Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  on guide-rocks, unable to see exactly where we were headed. Even as the ... school so it was really nice to be able to experience the great outdoors ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  for a free guided tour. The whole thing threw me back to when I used to ... I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College ... from the past week, with a selection from the piece; click the link to read or listen to the entire story. In the New York Times: Her Mission

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  format for blogs, and that I would resort to them often.  The reason I like ... used to be a bullet journal but over time has been reduced to the bare ... need to dump my brain out. All of that is to say that I want to blog

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... the floor, asking for people to celebrate her last night as a humanities major. (As of last Friday, Ruth switched from Course 17 to Course 11

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking ... translates to used cars — some are cheap enough that doubling the price wouldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  BLÅHAJ: the Internet meme, the trans icon, the world’s favorite plush media analysis on the Swedish shark’s rise to prominence

  

  , subvert our expectations. But perhaps most important to how and why memes ... more personal perspective on the importance of blahaj to the ... Hunger Games, Avatar the Last Airbender), I spend hours watching nearly

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  , and the advent of the 24-hour news cycle. He warned us that we have to ... scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  ’m far from the first person to talk about Barbie, and its importance to ... Barbie six (6) times. I have also cried to Greta Gerwig’s 2023 blockbuster ... ’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I wanted to take the time to reflect on what these past four months have ... sitcom.] R: I taught myself how to write again. That's pretty important

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  weekends (I have been occasionally known to sleep some 14 or 15 hours though ... important to you? Having a tried and true certified-damn-good education from ... love!-- there's obviously a lot of strife here, and I just wanted to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007