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• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  -minded view that most of the things in my life were "just normal" or universal ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do you feel in your bones ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero ... (Aeronautics and Astronautics), you’d probably be in for a rough time. It

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  that offers Freshmen up to 20ish different programs they can engage in ... scene on this campus, you would probably be wrong (very, very, wrong). In the past month, I’ve done everything from holding a ferret in our

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland the day GDPR was implemented, and in one of my classes we discussed the ... community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... experiences deserve equal recognition in who we become, some just color you more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  , offered in three different-flavored classes in the spring and fall. Most ... but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  self care define it or perish

  

  advantage of it for sure, but wow, being in the middle of the semester and looking back makes me feel like i'm in another universe right now. i mean ... week and walking to classes every day, but now i just sit in my room

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  ”, from the University of Warwick. I first read about it in the Math ... window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... mathematics. What are the chances that at some point in the last five years

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  , voted overwhelmingly to strike 'in solidarity with the national university ... : Nirvana Played MIT. Perhaps MIT's most (in)famous party is Steer Roast. Each ... to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... . Students could not friend students at other colleges. In fact, most colleges weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until ... that I knew in grade school. Not even the Earth that I knew from my magnet high school in NYC. This is a planet of it's own. It's called TLM

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... promised, celebrated his admission in December by running around the yard ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are ... of foreign affairs, the overpopulation problem in the world. Mostly ... , learned independently how to program in Matlab, conducted your full set of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  Spectrum duty desk in the lobby of McCulloch Hall at Northwestern University ... summer, but then I got the ambulance job up here so I'm staying in Boston instead. But I can email them for you!" In response, I said this: "At this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... about us and the halls could vote (in EC, there are ten halls, and each hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email in place of the snail mail?" Yes, send it to admissions ... by MIT?" IB is generally equivalent to AP in terms of academic rigor

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... problems, through encouraging “diverse activities in education, research, and ... the colors of fall and use materials I see in everyday life." Created by

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016