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• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  spring semester. But for the second half, we arrived on campus and did some ... run with our mom (she was visting us), and got side tracked along the way! Look at the frozen river! and ducks! and geese! close up of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  ALL THE EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS are upon us. So many. If you’ve been trying to contact the Admissions office regarding your application, and you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  , and I'm actually on campus about as often as when I was still a student ... ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world, I am old and retired. I was Course 9, and now I'm a research assistant

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  the second floor of the Student Center (W20) and is the only permanent ... usually booked by month and scheduled well in advance through the Student ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me ... the process of developing the program, building and expanding it, and ... applied to Teach for America in October, and I received the book as a gift

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  Borsch - (Moscow), through the Baltic States and on to the Russian capital ... , fast cars, or even good cars. It's just you, your pants-mobile and ... drinks at the launch party, leap into the cars and head for Dover. Once we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  is a self-governing country and not America's 51st state (despite what ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... admissions for a long time, and (finally!) here goes. First, an important

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  universities have their own famous and accomplished faculty members. But from ... lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and ... down with a case of the sniffles and the best place to curl up and nap

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  realized my mistake and erased the year, I realized that 2008 was three years ago. People born on 18 August 2008 are walking and talking all over the ... possible? Did July even happen?) and that will mark the end of my 19th summer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  Materials books. The themes, concepts, and narratives from the books have ... think my entire theory of the blogs, and what we try to do with them, is ... true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event that requires consultation, commiseration, and collaboration. Barbeques ... and running to your 8.01 lecture. The smell of something cooking in the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  fiction (and reality?) Evolution of popular beard styles Universals of human ... Over one weekend in the fall (Splash!) and one weekend in the spring (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  more detail, developing characters and the setting and the various twists and intricacies of a satisfying plot. Unfortunately, not all of these ... writing takes time and time is something which you give to MIT for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  time for women to devote to other enterprises), and the universal nut ... It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam ... -credit classes that do have tests and homework, but they’re definitely the minority

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  the MIT Sukkah) and enjoying Pizza (in the Hut). Come by and join us, we ... something that I had to send back to MIT, and it asked for my religious affiliation and I left it blank, because that's pretty much accurate. Boy, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  people you call Mom and Dad. (I'm sure that you call them other things when they are not looking, but that's another entry). So call mom and/or dad to the computer, bring up this page and walk away. WAIT, WAIT! DON'T GO

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  wasn't entirely unexpected, and I don't feel that bad about it. I generally feel out of my depth in that class, and every pset is a struggle of trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  after a 20-hour flight, badly jetlagged and starving (plane food is not the best). Things have been looking up since then, and being meticulously organised (both my dorm room and my room back home would probably

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name is Laura and I am a member of the MIT Class of '09, which ... to declare Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) as a major and possibly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Interning Remotely my verdict is that it definitely could be worse

  

  :1s, and I talk to many other people - interns, the University program ... . Internships were cancelled, in-person opportunities can no longer happen, and ...  hours[/annotation] of practice and preparation, the stars in charge of determining

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2020