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  Science, Technology, and Elephants. In which I take the best field trip ever.

  

  ’t really something that’s mentioned as an MIT selling point. Like, “come to the best engineering school in the world—we have a circus live behind our campus for a week every fall!” This all being said, I should

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  Mission Log 3042007 It's 6 o clock in the morning, and I ask myself ... onto the floor below without awaking my roommate. I put my contacts in, and stroll down the stairs and ask myself the second big question for

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  i’m studying abroad this semester hello europe

  

  people) ended up in one room, waiting for the professor. A half-hour past ... university, I didn't want to pay $26,000 for the spring semester. Math in ... transcript. I wanted to save my money for in-person classes. I am still

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 7, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... spend the holiday with the family (Mom, Dad, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin -- in other words, all my relatives that are currently in this country). And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for ... for the equations that I had already learned to solve in math class ... an offer because he had a Ph.D. in physics and was impressed by some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  weekend events. It takes maybe half an hour for all the prefrosh to arrive ... ESP office, hanging out with people. An event in ET, with pizza. A meeting with my teammates for 6.033. Meet the Bloggers. A trivia bee in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying and pseting, I get an email reminding me to sign up for Career Fair and ... - Candidate for B.S. in Management and/or Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... to log into the phone system, and wait for calls to come in. While I ... , then we also have to undergo some training in exchange for the free food

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  work, you will probably not have just one job in the same location for 35 ... !!!! If not, don’t be afraid to do an internship for free. The experience ... ! Summertime is a great time for you to take a class in something that you have

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby ... was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to install it would be a nightmare, so there’s an unused ice cream machine in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... now she's at the center for civic media, working on projects that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Events

  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  -up call at 5:30. I ordered a taxi for 6:30. I set an alarm for 5:30, just in ... would be able to wait for ten minutes. I have never moved so quickly in my ... airport, I felt myself breathing for the first time in a while. It felt

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  [By Doug Sanchez '14] After taking 2.97 (Design for People) I changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... 0:17 in the video Google put out on Gmail’s new redesign

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT ... more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I ... freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  The burning question in my in-box is "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I not good enough?" Certainly an honest and worthy question, and you have

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Ask Me Anything no, really

  

  My grades for the semester have finally all appeared on WebSIS, and I ... my undergraduate education! Phew.  What does that mean for you? Well, it means I not only have a lot of free time for writing blog posts

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • December 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a ... 's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... learning Calculus are tied for first - I'm quite serious), and knew

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  in, from my lab-mates, from my friends...and so on. Maybe it's not as ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all. Earlier today I got an email from Ben Jones that linked to an online

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  Whew, I'm glad JKim posted an entry ten seconds after I did, because otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  interested in doing something with EECS, so for the dream college section, I ... for grad school and came back to train with us in the summers. There was ... for putting on such an incredible program!"]MITES program over the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021