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  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  more abstract purpose relates to getting us in the appropriate mental ... available to be hung in MIT students’ living spaces or offices. Students view ... sports? The answer is MIT students. In fact, I have yet to see an empty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  and forth in the woodshop. Arabic music is playing. I have come to an ... shelves are bare and books lie in stacks on the table. I keep to the outside ... the eggs. One rolls to and from me in a breeze I don’t feel, like a boat

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  plot. Stagecraft has to do with everything in a play excepting the actors ... things give the audience an easy way to tell when changes in time, location ... there are a fair number of ways to get that experience. Twice a year, MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Freshman Advisors Can Be Awesome A night on the town with Daniel Barkowitz and his freshman advisees.

  

  year, and in exchange, I get to tag along on group outings. On Friday, ten of us went for dinner, dessert, and an off-Broadway show in downtown Boston. P.F. Chang's was packed, but we zipped to the front of the line

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  we went to a Lebanese restaurant in downtown/Penn Court. We took the ... was the night before inauguration. In the three block walk to the restaurant, we had to walk through barricades in streets, have police officers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  . What do you do afterwards? If you want to continue in academia, you try ... astronomy, and get a job in industry, business, finance, teaching, and ... you have to type this information again and again and again, in various

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad ... this, “I consider myself to belong to the following ethnic group(s) (check all that apply)”. At least for myself, this is an easy question to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  's something to be said for watching people do really random, stupid, amusing things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... student groups try to fit in one last activity before IAP comes to an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  time to properly support me, getting woken up at 5am every morning by my ... roommate, my summer was rough. It took everything in me to not toss my work laptop in one of the many dumpsters ubiquitous to the streets of Manhattan

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a student who I haven't seen in a long time stops by my office. In the process ... devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  to buckle down and get seriously serious about my education. When ... class so I could sleep in. That’s OK, Joel, you’ll survive - you can get ... to in-class concept questions. That’s OK, Joel, your grade is high

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  handed out copies of her demos to record labels in Nashville, only to get ... mind trying to get it back Wasn’t it easier in your lunchbox days Always ... pressure building in my head that goes something like this: You’ll have to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  have to admit, the minibus experience takes a little getting used to. The ... we are going to be in Lusaka this weekend or Mwape, but I hope to have ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh ... get closer to them throughout the semester, and to finally meet them in ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  pattern, one I still haven’t figured out a response to. In machine shops, I ... thought to myself, “That won't be me.”  I am known, on occasion, to sit in ... biked to D-Lab to weld. I’d started a new project two weeks before finals

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  genuinely interested in the subject that it’s hard not to get a bit interested ... don’t fully get this one"]fourth order tensor[/annotation] is, how to ... in order to simplify all your required math. Solid Mechanics is a bit

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... desire to leave. You wake up with them and the thought of getting out of ... certain smell suddenly starts to warm your heart in a way it never used to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... utilized to connect pieces of the colon in patients with Crohn’s disease, or ... near you in less than five years. The translation from bench to bedside

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  first exam. She gets that familiar thrill like she did in high school, the ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of ... ’s just pass/no record, another girl thinks to herself after getting her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making the hard decision a couple of brutally honest stories from friends here that had originally wanted to study…

  

  would like to get in contact with them to ask further questions, please email me and I can try to get you in contact ^_^)     ... way for me to take the world that I know, and modify it in a way that

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 17, 2017