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• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  Orientation, getting lost on the way to Baker House, exploring Greek life during ... at MIT. My first reaction was, to be perfectly honest, shock. How ... how I felt when my plane first landed in Boston - when I walked onto

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? After failing to acquire MIT no less than 3 times in ... . Baker to establish a school for engineering in Cambridge. This college is ... . Unlike most colleges, we get President's day off despite the fact that it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Despite all my best efforts, I couldn’t get the lock to turn. My host family ... for MIT's Global Teaching Labs, which sends students abroad to teach in

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... of the "talk list". Most living groups at MIT, in addition to having ... . e doesn't get used nearly as much, in my opinion. sure, there are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  individual merits. Maybe they'd both get in. Maybe neither would get in. And of ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who ... 's mostly random, though I'll have more to say about sorting in future posts

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  one of the hardest things to get right in math pedagogy? [annotation ... get the impression that success as a math major must mean being able to ... classes in subjects that aren’t math, but involve math to a reasonably high

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... : the best seat in the house the weather started getting rough

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  metronome in my mind. It takes us over two hours to get all the footage we ... . Or, at least, it always seems exceptional to me after the fact. In the moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  impression I have is that not getting an internship has much more to do with the coordinator not being able to find one available in your field of ... during May if I wanted to squeeze in a respectable 8-week internship. I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Doesn’t Feel Real getting from one place to another

  

  teachers to get some accommodations. In preparation, I wrote a letter. A ... wouldn’t get where I wanted to be in life by “slowing down.” And maybe I ... for the course is to pick a spot in nature relatively near to Boston, go

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 24, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  "]annual[/annotation]excitement: I get to introduce you to this year's crop of baby bloggers. To hire ... wonderful group of people. And now you, like us, get to laugh, cry, and lose ... , has defrosted milk in a shower, and needs you to know, she's on Tik

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  late but it was great to see other MIT students again. Since we live in different colleges and are taking different classes, it's nice to have get ... past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who ... last final and January 3 in Taiwan - and then right after, I came back to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  bunch of it in the air. Yeah, that's it, there isn’t a conclusion to this ... beyond the *literal* shuffle-shuffle-i'm-so-cold-and-need-to-get ... speed up a little, 1.5x speed online lectures to get through them all, go

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  record straight: that hasn't happened. And it wasn't a requirement to get ... for any prospective student to stand even a ghost of a chance of getting ... . In everything from physics to philosophical issues in brain science

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  ...(I'm with Jeremy, my travel buddy to Mathcamp that year. He's also in MIT ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case ... rivers to train for emergencies in inland bodies of water (for example, if

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship ... Facebook group that you get to join when you're a student here that's called ... to get stolen Person 3: Yeah, this is why no one goes around hanging

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  from autonomous drones to what I am currently working on in Biomaterials ... you just as much as any lecture will, and I really use this time to get ... actively participating in discussions on how to alter the experiment that

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... ongoing event in rolling text". Apparently this used to be something that ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  motivation among friends to get stuff done (in startup speak: GSD.) Halfway ... skills that would help me learn how to get my projects off the ground in a ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012