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• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the Sierras, or favorite climbs in Yosemite. Gear becomes attached to specific ... places in Yosemite, and swapped some old gear I had for other people’s used

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK ... a thing! In the past couple days, I've spent 40+ hours in lab helping ... with. They'll spend all day in lab working on things... They let me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Staying Organized In which I look exhausted and talk about my notebooks

  

  Apologies for the video length/quality this week. MIT has me sufficiently hosed this weekend, following an already-stressful week. Such is life. Hopefully you're able to decipher my rambling in this video! If

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre-orientation program. So back in June, I signed up for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  . Learning to drive stick-shift in a car that once belonged to my favorite ... much yet. My teacher is Rob, a photographer I met in a coffee shop. Yesterday, as we made circles in an empty school parking lot, the sky stormed

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  took in their fall term (Michaelmas term) and spring term (Lent term) at ... , these 1.5 hour exams are pretty much 100% of your grade in the class. Yeah... But I was lucky and only had 5 exams since I came in during the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  little darker than my avatar's and when I smile in real life, my face looks like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... to ask specific questions - I'll try to answer in the comments), but if

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  ;   ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a matter of time ... keep a postcard from home in my pocket it has sunshine and a picture of a ... Classes are over in a matter of time Pandora's on and you're by my side

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  What if You Didn’t Like CPW? is MIT still the place for you?

  

  of fun meeting a you future froshies in person. Today I wanted to ... around in the back of my head. I felt I wouldn't fit in unless my idea of a ... with mashed potatoes. Like the prefrosh in that thread, I too was one of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  're in Kansas for the Design/Build/Fly competition, and after unpacking our ... has more girls than guys." She had a point--the MIT team is in the ... on takeoff. We were nineteenth in line, and as team 17 was called our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Q&A I asked current freshmen about the things they wish they knew for their CPW!

  

  questions you have in the comments section below, and I will do my best to ... we took part in. My parents are worried about me going to CPW by ... check in with her via text or phone each day.  I also gave her the number

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  not THAT bad. This craving is just strong enough to make you go off in ... treat that you could ever dream up was in this case, but one item ... it belongs in Plato’s theory of Forms; it exudes the very essence of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... brother, Max, in Brookgreen Gardens last Thanksgiving break. The pet rock ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... campus.  The RingComm chair is at least the 3rd in a row from the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Important Information about your Financial Aid Application Track your status on MyMIT

  

  because we’ll be in committee making decisions about Regular Action ... logging in to MyMIT. Students who have completed their applications by ... Action admission decisions are made in mid-March. You can still apply for

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I ... picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I ... when you have so much fun with the people in your family and feel

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  really been patient. When a big event looms, I mark its approach in a big ... explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my ... decisions, 3/14, 6:28pm in Boston (Pi Day, Tau Time). 3/14, 11:28pm in Nigeria

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... .) > Hairuo, Royal, and Trevor are telling me I should double major in ... 1 would be a high school cafeteria burger and 5 would be an In

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime ... in Lobby 7, and it was incredible. Photos taken by Hairuo G. '17 As you can see, the area in Lobby 7 that was normally cut off due to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.

  

  school. I know I’ve spent my fair share of time in the basement study room ... sometimes in lecture, new concepts can perform astounding backflips right over my head. Case in point: Here we have Schrödinger’s equation in its

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 21, 2013