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  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  was able to communicate with the girls and get around in the city in a ... -Shapley   The rest of the week was dedicated to more offline exercises in ... this happen. Oh, and to Monterrey para las montañas... Priya in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  , Allan, and get to know us :). *segway alert* We recently had many of these ... : Ok, we’re getting ahead of ourselves. Rewind to August 19th 10:00am ... W20-491. We were the first ones to get to the room because we were too

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  quite timid in getting to know them. But my experience with UROPs and Tw ... gets work done in an effort to further our mission. The TwT experience ... really believed in the mission and it seemed like a good way to get

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... ’t wait to welcome them to convocation in Cambridge this fall, where they ... . Getting to “meet” so many capable, compassionate students through this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  graduate school and get my Ph.D. in astronomy. I sent a very happy e-mail to ... Way's magnetic field. I managed to get much better precision than the current software, which is awesome, because the eventual goal is to get the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  Concord, which had been simmering in my to-do list for months. Concord was surprisingly easy to get to: it’s only an hour away via the Fitchburg commuter ... enough to engrave in a stone slab, but it's hilarious. Then in early July

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the Scenes of MIT Gala liveblog - how a fashion show is made!

  

  pics. All the models are dressed in all black, learning how to walk on ... are filtering in to drop off their garments in the back room, and artists who are displaying things in the gallery are coming to install their

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • April 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Thanksgiving a different way All the cool kids call it "Friendsgiving" now, right?

  

  managed to get in some fun (mostly while feeling guilty about doing so ... move out). In the days leading up to our unprecedentedly luxurious break ... ,[/annotation]and I was t i r e d. I was ready to sleep in! To relax! To have fun! Well

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  selections, so that you can introduce yourself, get acquainted, and check in ... starts, everyone who opted in is assigned to a seminar and an advisor ... to have an adult checking in with me every week, and to know I had

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to stay almost entirely off the main road for safety, and I get to bike to ... to get from one side of the road to the other. Because there aren't any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  heart going to the poetry store in harvard square with alan and getting ... more things in my emotional toolbox to pull from when i'm faced with ... than get stuck in a self-destructive loop. i think younger mel would be

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  you want to "keep it real" get an "A" in Calculus. That's hot! Never ... , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... :       Don't refer to yourself in the 3rd person. It

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... subway in…  NYC   Before this summer, I went to NYC once with a friend

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  out there, in the Real World™️, getting to use all of this cool ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef ... biology, you can sprinkle in some more bio. If you want to be an engineer

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... in time to start warming up. The funny thing is that a “weekend off ... Genetics test. In my book, that’s a win. This was turning out to be the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  wasn't possible for me to get an A in this class, so I left it on PNR to ... stressful weeks. He often checks in on all of us and reminds us to stay ... whiteboards with casual chit chatter about his day to day life and life in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  in 3 months? The answer is to shorten your cycle time by aiming for ... companies, Sam says, is that they can aim to get 10% better every week. Short iteration cycles allow them to get feedback from customers and improve their

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  anchored to the sky. In West Africa, it shoots volcanoes down on us. I get ... of them before I get to the apartment. I wash my hands in the bathroom ... ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  trickled in, and sat down. Ashley welcomed us to the course, and explained ... get used to it after a couple of sessions. She asked whether anyone had ... continuing to move her hips, began tapping her feet in a rhythm that magically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013