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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig Nobody ... Fernandez Everything and More, David Foster Wallace Parable of the Sower

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title ... oh boy this is by far the best piece of technology I interact with on a ... occasional bout of boredom at work. And hence, I discovered the magic of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Power Tools at 2 AM A typical MIT experience.

  

  to actually read the name of the dorm they've been assigned to AND get ... on the dry erase board in their floor lounge "Conner 2: Home of the ... Conner 2 as well, so now there are three of us all on the same floor

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  a walk through campus and show you some of the things you may run into. I only have a half hour left of battery so this can't really be the ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Fig. 5: Zimmer- und Wohnungsvermittlung Universität/ETH Zürich aka ETH Zürich dorm tour!

  

  Hoi zäme! I'm finally back in the US of A after 6 continuous months ... first weekend of August. In the meantime, I've somehow taken over 138 GB ... videos. I put together a short tour of my dorm and room in Zürich with the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 18, 2018
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  My introduction to most of the MIT Admissions staff - aside from my ... the sort) that made them just a hell of a lot more special than me? Sound familiar? Two of the last three summers, I've had the wonderful

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Ready for some tennis? Three days left until the official start of the US Open tennis tournament! What's your…

  

  'll give some numbers: - 125 = number of years the US Open has been around ... = number of Grand Slam tournaments, the US Open is one of them (along with ... ?) Speaking of Andy Roddick, at the beginning of August, my roommate, Anna, came

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the past three weeks sapping so much time. The barrage of classes, problem ... curling the final integral sign onto the last problem of a p-set or after

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  , being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I ... of the world's technology research, with the world's brightest minds

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... concept of Office Hours But the difference doesn't end at class size or ... 's appeared in the last 8+ years' exams and you'll leave with 5 pages of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... cranny, and of course, friendship and love and community. But!!  The ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  now? Does anyone pretend to know? One of the few things that I know ... of supplies to send to the rescuers at Ground Zero: socks, contact ... hundreds of miles away from the place I currently live, begin searching for a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  Toy Story Hack! And Other Hacks from Fall 2015

  

  some photographs of the hack on a sunny autumn day. (also below is a chronology of other awesome hacks from fall 2015)   The MIT ... on the Dome 11/10: Fallout 4 Release 11/1: Hogwarts Institute of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Full Circle Here's to yesterday.

  

  , because my dorm room was on the first floor, I had a great view of the ... tour of the Humans and Automation Lab (HAL). Even though I wasn't really ... speaking - all the way from the Fourth of July to HAL to "Daisy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  cast sharp shadows across the road, cutting gashes of total darkness ... you who are applying to MIT EA, the deadline tomorrow is probably one of ... Infinite isn’t infinite … most of the time. Not when your mindnumbingly long

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Twins Chandler ‘13 and Taylor ‘13 The fifth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  Continuing our series Introducing the Class of 2013, today we have a ... common than just their looks. They're also graduating at the top of their class as co-valedictorians. Out of 75 students graduating from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  students. Some of these questions have come from citizens of the countries ... at 40% of responding American universities). I understand the concerns ... ; especially through the work of Lincoln Lab, we are engaged every day in keeping

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017