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  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT ... and naively thought we would be fine biking across the bridge in a ... Tuesday, I went apple picking! Me and friends in the hay ride! Every year

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  the entire class in one place, I even ran into some people that I hadn ... with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  -motivational posters online at this website. I was walking to the down Amherst Street ... Environment offices, when I was accosted by a man in a bicycle taxi. MAN: "Hey ... with strangers. But as the man sped off in search of another victim, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  buy plane tickets.   The Great Biology Merger On Tuesday, I was a ... .06 this semester, so I would only be able to take 7.18 next semester when I ... (or more!) in lab working on a project that would have looked better on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  anything like that classroom in the movie." I actually thought the movie 4-145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I ... . The closest in number would probably be the awesome course 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  &J sandwich orrrr I decide I'm too lazy to make my lunch and that I'll just buy ... as a general overview, I'm working in Merck's vaccine division this ... , including reading for fun, dancing as much as I used to in high school, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  world works In a class I took last semester, we would often be assigned ... already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I came into MIT not knowing what I would study, ended up going with

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  't have to know how to cook to live in a dorm with kitchens. I live in ... delivery, I eat in Boston, and sometimes I'll microwave some soup or some hot ... a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance around that time that I would have to skip. Reasons to go: Over 20 VC ... startups would have to overcome. Some of the things I learned: Fintech

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  —we live here in the day-to-day.” mit and the cube I would be remiss not to ... in bits all around the website. I do feel funny clarifying this, but if ... , achievable goal. This helps me stay off my phone in the morning, too. I sought

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  -year-old college student at MIT, typed quickly in Hayden Library. Today, I got up to ... thinking that it was in February; I don’t know why, I didn’t even “get ... . Cecilia’s Parish in Boston, where I go every Sunday, and proudly belted out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  didn't even get in on the first try. I had to wait until COVID-19 expanded the program for me in order to get in. And so that's why when I look ... . I'm the kind of person where I either finish the book in one sitting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  I was graduating, my emotions revolved in a pretty binary fashion ... bathroom or living in a 115 sq ft brick oven coffin (Macgregor <3). I ... things in college (missed)   Let’s say I want to learn how to do Pogo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Mechanical Engineering student with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an ... robots have yet to even come close to mimicking the human gait. In an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  would be cool. In that case, I guess the liquid metal part of his system ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my ... According to my favorite website ever, StatCounter, somebody from

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  Dear Internet, No, I am not dead yet. I had a lot of great food in ... now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT ... !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... first year, you don't pick a lab in grad school until you're ready. When I ... undergrad, except that I have less work to do, I live in an apartment rather

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  primary major in science or engineering. I (like today's birthday girl) was one of these students, majoring in Management, and I had many friends in ... -science/engineering department. Michael wrote, "I'm hoping I'll be able to double-major in 6

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  on that one day last month, I had to check in nearly 50 packages of ... several textbooks from Amazon, and I was considering buying a notebook (the ... easy to multi-task. I am one of said desk workers at Baker, and early

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010