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• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  really long-winded and kind of boring entry while working Burton ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times... in case there's a chapping emergency, and one of them got lost -stain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... happen if you tried to hit a baseball pitched at 90% the speed of light ... If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  summer gig. A really cool summer gig. That was all. At the end of the ... UROPs. You've heard about them before, but here's a refresher. At MIT, we have lots of professors doing research. We have lots of

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  boston at night grab your headphones

  

  bike ride down the esplanade, bridges, night fog, ducks on the river, street music, city magic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 22, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our ... community at MIT, serving as Vice President of the African Students’ Association and the President of Sakata Afrique, an African dance team at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite ... to start. They've got at least one whole year on you in terms of ... set at the hobby shop - as soon as we learn some of the needed acoustic

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  the Geek show, one I tie-dyed myself, a pair of two way radios at the ... I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  , being at an academic institution with over 800 years of tradition gives ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Read on for Amanda's experience... A Year at Cambridge A "guest

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  just plain better at math than me. I kind of feel like the dumb one who ... ). While technically you don't need any knowledge of 18.02 to understand 18.03- well, taking two math classes at once isn't so easy. I don't know how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  girls, and at first found kinship in the physical similarities of age ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One ... new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... windows, and one of the windows was flapping around on its hinge. The woman was standing with an elderly man, and the two of them had been trying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  I've been dancing on a team at MIT for one and a half years, but I ... previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  trash pits and open sewers. Privileged members of society socialize at an ... first of the five houses in which we collected measurements. At any moment ... took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... advantage of a new opportunity that allows MIT students to visit the Isabella

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I saw a turkey the other day… hello, world!

  

  ...which may not be a big deal to most of you, but since I was on a run through Boston at the time, and he was chilling in someone ... ’t wildlife in Boston; I’ve seen my fair share of creatures, including the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  the pictures you asked for: Death From Above at the beginning of the ... , Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen today at Noon EST. Hope you can watch! http

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  At MIT, we think big. We apply engineering principles whenever possible. We build snowmen so large that they require the use of ramps, ice skates, and a team of friendly tourists. My friend Julia '08 shares her IAP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  , have no shame and quiver with delight at the prospect of one day ... this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a ... stereotypical to be advertising an open casting call for "geeks" at MIT, but this

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005