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• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... Corridor. Now, one of the things they give you at Orientation Check-In is the ... from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  resume at some of the smaller companies that ask for one. My friend and I ... , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  's pretty much the same then at this time of the year. Although I can't promise you an amusing survey, I can provide you an account of WHY we are ... my dorm's i3 video, and then I lost an hour because of daylight savings

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  interview at School C. This obviously creates a cohesive little community of ... undergrads at these interview weekends -- there were 8 or 9 of us out of 75 ... process, which is quite a bit different at the grad level than at the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  looked at various aspects of how dropping either, both or none of the ... A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... action. The ELLs we’ve done for the past couple of weeks in GEL have

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... retired and stayed at home taking care of their mother-in-law, who was in ... Japanese friend!" My new Japanese friend dropped me off at my apartment

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3 A Valentine's Day surprise

  

  On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique ... - offered these options: 1. Signed, Sealed, Delivered by Stevie Wonder 2. Can ... Green The Muses - a female a cappella group - offered these options: 1. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... math books, and a great math teacher at Phillips Exeter Academy in New

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  about fluid mechanics. Sorry, it's the time of the season for offers, and ... DID YOU KNOW? The entire state of Wyoming (population 509,300) has ... while. I'm real sorry; I'm just not exactly on top of my life right now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bloggers Wrapped 2019 aka i harvest everybodys data, my favorite pastime

  

  of moods on this playlist is very large New artists listened to: 643 ... Comments from me: to bring up the point i made at the top of this post, isn ... ), "Straight to Hell" (The Clash), "Laid" (James), "New York City Cops" (The

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  State Department travel warning was at level 3, the prospect of travel ... would calm down by mid-May. at the end of April, I had my training weekend ... pushed back to June 9th. at this point, I lost all hope of travel, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  New year, new bloggers! introducing the new bloggers for fall 2019

  

  Today is the first day of classes, and, as new MIT students are introduced to the fun of the firehose, we also wanted to introduce our new ... ,46005,46006,46016,45983,46056" caption="the baby bloggers" /] From left to right: Ankita D. ’23 of New

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  , my buyers withdrew their offer.  All of a sudden I had a house to sell ... drove up to Portland the next morning to pick up my new car. 5 months of ... driving a Tesla Model S 85.  I drooled at it.  I stole glances at it.  I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  ="119562" image3="119579" /] Finally, we arrived at the site in New Hampshire. Putz ... note="2nd West, one of East Campus' 10 living communities"](Putz)![/annotation] Overall, it was a really fun but chaotic experience, largely because of the

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  up filing a patent at the end of his internship for a new radar ... University of Texas at Arlington, Pelkins transferred to MIT his sophomore year ... Milton, however, stayed in Cameroon, and attended university there at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  , there were a lot of new people, most of them men, and he wasn’t returning again and again to offer help to them. I was one of few women in the shop ... square clamps, which was probably the biggest new skill. I worked mostly at

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled ... cheaper prices, at Shaw's (a supermarket off of Mass Ave), or at La Verde ... doing better at my job or for learning new things. As a college student I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  while I was cleaning things out for the new semester, a gentle reminder of ... at the exam. We were tasked with memorizing a small handful of ... .310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  the skirt is made from the front pages of the New York Times. Both the ... reflective properties, which creates the ghost of a rainbow if looked at ... Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015