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  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  teaching and learning philosophy of MIT, and exactly what makes it this burning furnace that, through a lot of heat and pressure, turns all of its ... cool, and also touches on a lot of the general reasons as to why MIT is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to ... be really awful and lonely, and maybe you spent lots of time just

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness.  The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent a lot of time

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  It’s nearly the end of October, and autumn has finally begun coloring the city of Boston. Baker’s annual piano drop (this time, filled with ... Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of ... with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... :( 5:30 AM: Done showering, dressing, throwing my hair into some kind of ... of my summer goals was to improve my culinary habits, but I am

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious ... is cross section of my semester in screen shots. 1) I hit exactly $0 ... RING PREMIERE. 3) Three of our Theta freshmen discovered gchat emoticons

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t Read This if you Already Go to MIT My life is good and I get plenty of sleep. Please don't hate me.

  

  The shadow of my plane, surrounded by rainbows Lately, life seems to ... optics and the water droplets in the cloud and the angle of the sun and ... jogged toward the South door of the building. Then I saw my professor

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever ... halfway through, I was kind of tired and really looking forward to that ice

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure agreements and the threat of prison I can't tell you a whole lot about it, but I can give you a basic feel for what I do. I'm given bags of action

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Big News The next chapter in the life of Ben Jones.

  

  say, and yet so many of them don't attach well to words - only to strong ... moments of one's childhood. I think I'll just start with the facts and save ... to really process all of this. In a nutshell: after four incredible

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  , probably more than you realize (ooooo, cryptic). Burton-Conner has all of its ... first day of CPW so they could study. Luckily our test is this coming ... .001 (Mechanics and Materials) test went over like a bag of rocks. Technically, I

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  . So, every 4 years (or, in the case of years that satisfy yr# mod 100 = 0, yr# mod 400 = 0 must also be true), we get one of these odd days ... ;"<. It was freshman year of high school. I was obsessed with AMC 10 - I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  My dorm, Burton-Conner, has a great view of the both domes from just ... when I walked out of my dorm to head to Physics I noticed something ... the east coast. This meant learning about weather, types of stores that

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fun in NYC Part 1 Never be afraid to go straight to the top.

  

  , the glass on the front of the factory was laser etched with Mr. Potato ... my coverage of the Hasbro world headquarters ends because we weren't allowed to take pictures of anything. We were taken down "Main Street" and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most ... , and the team with the most runs gets the much-coveted title of "Most

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James '11, and a table for each of us. Okay, so ... the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week 5 of Michaelmas term at Cambridge. Week 5 at MIT means Fifth week flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007