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• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  The other day I was watching a video about typography and the speaker ... bright objects, awkward s pa ci ng between words and letters is visually displeasing. The whiteness screams out, “Look at me, I exist!” And we reply, “Go

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Currently listening to Currently with: Raymond, Lucy, and Shannia Currently drinking: Odwalla Superfood Currently feeling: warm and cozy in the ... to be here at MIT without you and all the lessons you've taught me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  -tech stoves. The instructor kept offering trainings, and to supply new materials ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... what MIT is offering, or if the experience here is worth all the work

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even though it's a summer course) THAT COMBINES BIOLOGY AND MULTIMEDIA AND LETS

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more ... more around… 7 people. The date rolls around and everything goes ... -spicy.”"][/annotation] The food was amazing, and I’m definitely planning to go again

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  never realistically go. In fact, if I had not visited the University in August and completely fell in love with it, I wouldn't have even applied ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... this orphanage, giving donations, and implementing new programs for ... children had just lost their parents, their homes, and their country. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  where people can post requests and offers for various types of aid, such ... ’s understandable that there’s a lot on your mind right now, and the last thing we ... of you are still dealing with damage to your homes and schools and

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the classes and were so excited to see that there was a mugs class - MUGS!! I ... there and then at the small hispter-esqe coffee shop, took a journey to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  current and alumni bloggers in celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the MIT blogs and also to offer an update on my life post-MIT. I graduated ... -bye to life at MIT and in particular, to the MIT blogs (direct quote

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  With another add date passing and classes in full swing, I thought I ... .01 and 6.042 (both intro classes to course 6-3 that I absolutely despised ... that interest me. The report is in after 4 weeks and I absolutely love

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  guys are amazing. I can't wait to meet you. And to those of you who weren't offered admission, you're just as amazing. I regret that we won't be able to ... . And now, with the congratulations out of the way, it's time to get to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  I was reading Evan's most recent entry and I noticed that he ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  . :-) What can you tell me about next fall's Orientation and Pre ... Center (ARC) and not by Admissions, so I'm not really an expert on those ... .mit.edu/orientation. You'll find various dates and ARC contact information there. What is

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar though. He's been doing it forever and he's amazing. He'll look at files

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  bit and plug it here. The other event is running on Friday and Saturday ... combination of fun and information out of your CPW: Make friends. You'll stay ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  from you and the due date was last Friday. You can have an extension ... those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... 12 pages written, and sketchy headers for the next 7 or so sections

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and production staff - Melis, Dawn '08, Hannah '09, Ivana '11, and me - have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006