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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a ... neglect to account for the other nations which will undoubtedly take the ... formation and provide incentives for targeted growth, not to micromanage

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  mode for the Asymptones. Auditions lasted from the following Saturday to ... for the equivalent of 6.5 standard classes, in addition to singing in ... is almost as if it is impossible for me to last a week without creating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  's already a reading assigned for 5.13? This is nonsense. This year is going to ... the many things I have to look forward to. For starters, I've slogged ... , I already have something to look forward to for all four of them. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... having a chance to say goodbye, another person I would never again bump ... for 45 minutes and then go back to packing, before we knew it we'd been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  traditions. And to celebrate--and mentally prepare for this frenzied weekend ... in Brighton for $25 a person Scoring guest meal passes and eating ... MIT milestones often have something to do with 3.14159... 7 years ago

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  Much FAC," where we made personalized cakes for each of the ten halls of ... East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... semester, a different hall bands together to provide some sort of creative

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  department of defense to pay for my education. I'm sworn in as a midshipman ... War. Ok, that's about it for me. I look forward to sharing my ... Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  missing little things -- I can’t borrow pens from the person next to me ... besides, there are so many Zoom gatherings for frosh and upperclassmen to ... , alerts me that my microphone is off. This is the MIT I’ve come to. When I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  resident woke up to find a personalized sticky note on his or her door. I ... . On Thursday, I was about to scan and e-mail in an application form for ... I was applying for the program. More specifically: "I'm delighted to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  feel guilty for not responding to his question. As I mentioned just a ... the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... ) has two GRTs who have open door policies for students to come to them if ... floor to take a break from their work to hangout and socialize for a bit

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to ... MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... , and sustainability, you will leave MIT Sloan ready to take your career
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that ... season 6, due to just life happening. School was starting up back in person

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for October write those personal essays! submit those early apps! get PUMPED UP

  

  Last month, Petey posted a motivational soundtrack for the month of September. A lot of y'all seemed to like it, so we made another one for October! This month's theme is to get hyped up and get shit done! :) Give

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  to exercise. Hooray! Hooray for bicycles! I'm also very risk averse ... stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... good crosswalks, the safest way for me to do this is by going into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary ... month prior to the test if you really want to prepare well for a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to MIT, both involving RFID technology (for those who aren't that tech ... from the San Jose Mercury News - "'Printed Chips' Could be Boon for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  . :) Like in high school, I was happy to receive course credit for something I ... friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... —and the tools to make our own new beautiful things. This blog post is about

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  for the trust and confidence MIT puts in our abilities to affect change ... MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies, and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad

  

  you inspired for a spoOOoky time at MIT! #1 – Pretend you go to a ... costume for you! Pro: It's an easy costume to pull off when you promised your friends you'd tag along with them for some Halloween shenanigans

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 15, 2022