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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  So another school year came to a close, and so begins the season of ... supposed to be a lot of fun. I'll be testing that hypothesis. Aside from ... this summer, I decided to expand my horizons a little more. Here's a

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... right way to go. I've been learning a great deal from my few weeks here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... what you paid for, you'll have to eat a certain number of meals in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  my bike to Quincy Market, grabbed a bagel and orange juice, and headed ... used to all go out together in New Jersey or even just anywhere. It was a ... Portland, and I exited the train in a nervous hurry thinking I was going to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  leg space! =D) It was a fun time of relaxation, going back to my high ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a ... up to the mountains with a Taiwanese health outreach group (think

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  importantly, it's a chance for these youngsters to forget about difficult times at home for just a little while and to immerse themselves in pure camp ... 've already been working really hard to make this year's camp a great success

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.

  

  day at work. Due to a lovely and thick stacks of nondisclosure ... ' toys, are then sent to packaging so that they have a solid model to mold ... direction. I commute to and from work every day about an hour. I take a train

  • by Snively '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  friends to my first Red Sox game. I'm a senior and I've never been ... . On my way to the student center, I passed a football game. MIT vs ... . We all met up and walked over to Fenway for a late lunch. Nothing like

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has ... ' temperatures to existing models. The last few steps involved a table that also happened to calculate the radii of the stars and one day a fellow astronomer

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although ... understanding the content and was able to solve problems a lot better than last ... that the class itself became a great community. the class taught me to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... how to write a love interest that readers root for. Specifically I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  you get to pretend to be an adult for a couple months before returning ... post-graduation fun. Of course you will have a supervisor to ask ... ): "Earlier this summer a had the opportunity to travel to Israel with 21 other

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  a not-terribly-subtle fashion, because if I decided to go to Ohio State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the ... the hole as a result of our EFC, but my entire family has had to make

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  that it’s difficult for public officials to know how to act toward a ... at the world’s greatest academic institution, which happens to share a ... , I have not told you who is running; you have nearly a month left to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Red Balloons Gotta catch 'em all!

  

  ASSEMBLE! Prefrosh, undergrads, alums, this is a call to action! It is time for us, all of us, to band together under a common dome and ... to win this than a team from MIT? Register/Report Located Balloons

  • by Snively '11
  • December 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  had the opportunity to try to bust the Archimedes Death Ray myth. So a ... : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give that power to someone else. Don't give it to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  's a post on MIT Independent Living Groups (ILGs), another alternative to ... 's offer to host this entry. Thanks Keri! I've visited a few of the other ... identify ourselves as part of a fraternity, we recently decided to be

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... all: What are you going to study? Would a degree from MIT really be ... need to decide on a major (sometime during sophomore year) and then study

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  story of a student we had denied in 2011, and how well he had done ... , we always say to be true: Turning away so many kind, generous, super ... few years trying to make wherever you are as amazing as you can (as you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018