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  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... upon the iRobot booth, and started talking to some of their

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  ;insert your own> degree of seriousness? In my personal opinion, the MIT ... of the freshly admitted candidates for the class of 2016. We all stayed ... of vicarious prefrosh cheer through the next few voicemails in a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  This time of year, Educational Counselors all over the world are ... Counselor (EC) may be the first interview you’ve ever had. Some of you may ... mechanics of how this all works. The best way to find out the name and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  . This year, for REX, one of the things being built was a fort ... being the actor in a movie you don’t know the plot of. I was pretty ... weekend. It’s set in the universe of Isaac Asimov’s robot novels. Some

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on ... , where the other 2014s were waiting with a bottle of wine. We toasted, and ... (Monteverdi to Mozart) class. We discussed the score of a Bach French suite (No

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  of traditional art studio classes that the SAA offers) is something ... , because for 9th and 10th grade, we were in the music program of the arts ... of STEM that goes on, but we were not so aware of the vibrant art

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information ... hair-pulling by even the brightest students. But in the rare cases of ... suicide. Neither academic rigor nor course of study are among the top risk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  don't believe it's the essence of the subject. Could you please tell us ... on the side (hey, it's MIT). It is, as you are probably aware, one of ... issue with this sort of ranking, since the ranking is really for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  calendar of note (aka, all of the things on my calendar): Science Bowl ... about the direction of our club and other high-level issues that are hard to address in the middle of the semester and running programs. These

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of ... National Honor Society. (I was publicity chair of the Math Club. I spent my ... academically. AP classes were abundant - the school offered somewhere around 30

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  ’s Women’s Soccer team! I was the first in my family of four kids (who all ... hopefully some of the overall principles and advice can still apply! My ... end of [annotation note="This was the right timeline for soccer if you

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  cloud of the 7.03 final was fraying my nerves. I’m sure the actual weather ... settled into the comfort of a familiar bed (cuddling cat named Stoopy included). Even though winter break itself ended on the 4th of January, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the ... responsible.) Adam and I watched the latest epidode of Lost, ordered dinner

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... styles, cultures, etc. suit me best. I had the least amount of imposter syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  to take me up on the offer of an MIT tour. A week later, Josh Shiode e ... most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two physicists in ... one of his constituents, and the last time I was in New Jersey I was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  from the law students. The two of us engineers are trying to pull our ... the Head of Product Design at Continuum. *** This is the class I ... brand identity for the City of Cambridge. A vision for my future cafe

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  way to the Kendall T-station. Let me give you an idea of exactly how ... Gregor, BC, Baker, McCormick, and Maseeh, the broad avenue of dorm row was ... Infinite in the middle of night, it struck me that this was my school. Long

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over ... near Camp 4, one of them spotted the MIT Outing Club patch on my backpack ... Promenade, or even in the elevator of my parents' condominium. Networking

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a little more than 10 books as I’m in the middle of reading an eleventh book ... organized. Some of the poems were a little short and border-line meme

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Episode 4: A New Hope Addressing the concerns of undecided students.

  

  fact, I would guess that the type of housing MIT offers(students choose ... food and where?" The boxes you saw came from one of the campus food trucks. I get the plurality of my campus lunches from the Chinese food

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 23, 2006