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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... distance, you can see a little figure sticking out on top of the hill. That ... lunch, we set out to hike up to the statue. Near the bottom of the hill

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Beginning of the End & the end of some beginnings

  

  together to finish my degree. In fact I can proceed at a comfortable pace. I ... I ensure that I've made the best out of my four years at MIT? Will I ... dwelling on that. While some of my friends have completed their requirements

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  , but still managing to get through the questions with varying degrees of ... to come back to 40 degrees and rain. A great part of being a senior ... I never thought I'd say this, but I'm kind of bored. A combination of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  science. As such, American businesses at the forefront of innovation in STEM ... thrive." As the report says, MIT has offered generations of people the ... public understanding of the issues at stake as we see them. As I've often

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  GELcamp project management… in the woods?

  

  we arrived at the snowy front gate of Camp Cody. I wasn’t expecting ... transported back to summer camp at Camp Lakewood in 5th grade. But instead of ... at least 80% of the people in my cohort. Also, skiing and snow tubing

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 6, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of ... you want to soldier on, though, you can just look at the degree ... Hi! At CPW, some students in Macgregor were telling me that a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as ... TO WRITE THEM. Seriously. Why? Because the end of the semester has me ... write this entry, but I thought you guys deserved at least an update, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... hosts a reception at his enormous hilltop mansion, "WestWind." The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Put a Ring On It 2013 RING PREMIERE!

  

  with which every MIT student hopes to graduate (aside from a diploma, of ... About three hours ago, a large majority of the MIT Class of 2013 filed into Kresge Auditorium for one of the most awesome events of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  have all the information at the same time. Or the amount of information cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  degree increments?” [annotation note="The question was originally proposed ... hand”. You see, I’d spent way too much of my free time last summer holed up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  MISTI is pleased to announce the launch of its eleventh country program, MIT-Chile. With generous support from the Chilean Ministry of ... ,000,000 and one of the world’s highest economic growth rates, Chile is a

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What’s the Infinite Corridor?

  The Infinite Corridor is MIT’s spinal cord. Many of our departments ... , the circular path of the sun crosses the axis of the Infinite Corridor. (As viewed from a stationary point on the earth, the path of the sun
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  when I fixate on food, but it’s all in the name of science.) We began at ... . Next stop, Beard Papa's at Faneuil Hall, home of the “world’s best cream ... the North End. Get this….there are shelves after shelves of different

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  whole bowl of pins such as this one at the Academic Expo. T ... good ol’ fashioned car bash? At this rush event, people from all walks of ... completely new place full of strangers and challenges and legends and horror

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  on top of a hill and at night the woods around were spooky and fabulous ... , learn their names. At the end of the semester, there was a quiz on that ... made the room burn. Whatever manifestations of worry there are, I felt

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  . Breathe. Your time at MIT isn't defined by the number of units you're taking. If you're the kind of person who can maintain your sanity or enjoys the light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  Rotten.com's biography of Woz: When Steve Jobs worked at Atari, the company ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first ... . I've always been a Mac guy. I don't fall into the stereotype of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  them for most of the weekend. (Pictures are at the bottom of the entry ... (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out applications and studying for APs/SATs, have finally paid off. At Campus Preview

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007