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• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  ’ll remember for the rest of my life - sitting on the beach at 3 am, surrounded ... their equipment is located at the top of the Green Building, so he has ... of power tools and construction. I’m not handy in the slightest, but at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  first day of the term where all the first year students to the university ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... able to take AP classes, as they are not offered at my school. I would ... their daily lives (e.g. does a computer scientist glare at lines of code

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  choosing where to go for my younger brother

  

  a woman gets to experience many of the other universes that might ... job at a prestigious consulting firm, a place where many of her peers at ... transcript.  I cross-registered for some classes at a different university and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 1, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  )[/caption] Lasell University and the University of Massachusetts at Boston won't be ... of a mascot. Brandeis University has two mascots—Ollie the Owl and The ... evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  unacceptable. I'm planning to go to New York sometime this year so!!! hopefully I ... Happy New Year! I usually make resolutions every year, but I forgot ... freakouts in my last post. read at least 5 books Fun fact: I don't read a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  flag on the Moon. At the same time, and without the slightest sense of ... welcome new talent? In a nation of laws, how can we reject students and ... policies announced Friday tear at the very fabric of our society. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  the record, setting a new mark of 51 seconds! This spring, you can see ... You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... find that near the Boston University bridge, there are a couple of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... applying to engineering graduate programs at MIT. I am trying to find that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... to give you a taste of the types of speakers at the program: Drew ... entrepreneurial culture at MIT. President Reif is a fan of StartMIT! Photo credit

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  sororities and fraternities at University X do have all of those problems, like ... . But at the end of the day, MIT students are, first and foremost, MIT ... fundamentally MIT-y, which makes it unique and different. At the end of the day

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What happens if I’m not selected as a Match?

  . At that time, there are three things that could happen: You could be ... choose to accept the offer, or not accept the offer and apply to other ... with any schools. If you ranked MIT as one of your College Match schools
• Blog / How to Human

  Always the Art Kid many many many identities

  

  am equally fearful of trying new activities as I am to sticking to ... know I enjoy all of these things, even if I haven't created a new piece ... solution she offers is simple: "Why can't you be a combination of all of

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 28, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  could stop at the top of the waterfalls to eat our lunch and relax for a ... the wheel, and although he frightened us at times, it was a lot of fun ... map, but we didn't purchase the New Hampshire trail book ahead of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . For example, the stir-fry station at Simmons only has a selection of 8 ... sandwiches One of the best things about New Vassar dining is that you can get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  to a restaurant for dinner instead of eating at the dining hall, you ... .  Either way, that's a savings of at least $70 per week, or $1050 per ... of a new Macbook Air per semester. What about time?  It takes me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 ... one. When you've chosen a field of study, you then get a new advisor in ... CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  cool, I don’t look back at my science fair years because of the work I did. Not at all. Rather, I look back at those years because of the ... her life. So on the brinks of entering high school, she had a new

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018