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• 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 / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  nights and interesting experiences, I want to reflect a little on my first ... ’s something about traveling that I think can be fulfilling and scary at the same ... that in today’s world, you can press a few buttons on a screen, and in a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester’s shenanigans what i've been up to!

  

  reassuring myself that i’m Doing Things and half stressing myself out even more ... [annotation note="except lecture"]everything happens so fast[/annotation] and ... [/annotation] and maybe having an incredible experience here and there, but it's being

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 10, 2019
• 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 / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so ... between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... of struggling to define expectations, going back and forth between

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  this Thursday afternoon as a break, and so the room degree ... was only beginning to take off as common slang, and MITx, which is now ... attended my recitation for 8.012 (freshman physics), and my recitation leader

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I want to be when I grow up Did I go with the baseball announcer idea? Or the Daily Show script writer? Read…

  

  get an engineering degree from MIT and then...you know, not use it ... wanted to be when we grew up. My classmates drew astronauts and firemen. I ... librarian. I just thought all the electronic scanners and stuff they used all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2008
• 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