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  since i’ve been home

  

  crossing, whose tropical island setting and cute characters and mindless activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  -Center without collapsing from exhaustion, length of walk and/or back pain. Mental ... self: work out more often for reward of hot shower. Note to everybody else: go to MIT for reward of hot shower. 10:50 AM: Walk back to Next

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/black-lives-matter), read that first, then come back and read this post. As many of you are ... . From the murder of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, to the tragic deaths of four hardworking police officers in Dallas, it feels like America

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  the “sleep through it” way, but rather in the “harbor a feeling of ... (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... . Two of these made me love social science. The rest got me two summer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  class, it’s the first time that the number of hours my classes are supposed to take is less than the actual number of units, although it’s a bit underestimated because of my cross-registered class. Why am I taking so many HASS

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and ... Theater: Scenery The final component of my theater arts concentration. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  The rhythm sets in. It’s a steady rhythm. Roll out of bed at ten in ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... , Thursday, Friday. A march of things to do, every minute of the day wrangled

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• 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 / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... members of the MIT Marching Band and MIT’s vocal groups. As it turns ... different kinds of music represented. The Chorallaries wow’d the crowd

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  reflecting off a surface at an angle of around 50-60 degrees from the normal ... . (Yes, all of them. I tried.) Slush blooms like grey wildflowers on ... gleaned from a morning of traipsing from car-to-door with luggage stuffed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... Director of Student Financial Aid and Student Employment at MIT. He has over 15 years of experience in the financial aid and student financing

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  this one is gonna be fun. Today we will be going on a tour of three ... concept, but what’s even crazier is that we actually have 26 of them in total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer restaurant recommendations Some of my favorite restaurants.

  

  , here is a good summer list of restaurants for students (and campus visitors!) to try. They're many of my favorite places! Cafe Baraka: A ... in all of Boston. 225 Hampshire St Cambridge, MA T: Red Line to Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  . That's a lot of degrees between the two of them, and these guys know what ... MIT a week early and learn about a specific aspect of MIT while getting ... that invest money in startups in the hopes of greater returns. I mention

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  “Massachusetts Institute of Technology” is a name with 37 characters, 12 syllables, and a state name that I am still completely incapable of spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023