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• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... course, the most valuable part of the experience was meeting future ... about such a rich campus culture together. The book of events also

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  classes, totaling 96 units. In the spirit of procrastinating finals studying ... , Amira, Ari, and I made this unfolding zine that summarized some of the core themes of the class: [carousel image1="115118" image2

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... Lebowski," "Almost Famous") stole the show as Gust Avrakotos, one of the few

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  for the first time, and filling out that neat little form listing all of my classes for the coming semester. I remember that first day of ... remember the thrill of going to my first-ever Red Sox game at Fenway. I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... is the furthest north I have ever lived. Here is a list of almost ten

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them ... 've created something really cool, and gradually, those moments of I-made-the ... that based on my perception of it as a sophomore)  :D From the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  seems I have no choice other than to make the best of the situation. My ... . I'm an official MIT freshman now, a proud member of the Class of 2011 - but most of the time I still like to think of myself as a normal guy who

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  bloggers do. Probably primarily the latter. 6.009 Fundamentals of ... of this semester. Perhaps even enough to compensate for the fact that ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• FAQ / International applicants

  What is the Secondary School Report?

  accept other SSR documents, and materials sent outside of the MIT ... -party services or email). Materials sent outside of the MIT-specific recommendation ... system in your part of the world, and we do not try to convert your metrics
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  seriously. There is a great sense of humor here. I also love the collaborative ... . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... (who have the best record in baseball right now), the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full ... comfortable with the big/little dynamics in some of my social groups, enjoying ... thought of someone viewing me in the same light. it seems absurd. every

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  saw in the Princeton Review book that she bought that MIT has one of the ... Hall, the Media Lab, and a bunch of really weird sculptures. But ... 'm not sure who came up with the idea of a windowless brick cylinder for a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous senior product design class. By the end of the class, our team of 24 ... . Over the course of 12 short weeks, we're expected to build a product that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Open Sesame…Ring. RFID magic + a ring = wearable CharlieCards

  

  The future of, well, pretty much everything seems to be coming to us ... had to admit that, yes, this was now the coolest thing I know of that ... undergraduates at the Singapore University of Technology and Design, was first used

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 23, 2013
• 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 / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  people say is important. All of these skills are crucial when wooing the ... went to the career fair for all of the free swag, and free swag was what ... the Hyatt hotel where I got some one-on-one time with some of the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description of the dream I had. She responded with amusement, and a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  turkey; the spectacular death throes of leaves clinging to trees; the ... , manliest beard you can in the span of one month. Leonidas is the patron ... . Your beard growth very well could be accidental; the result of a few long

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a ... on the lawn of McCormick Hall [*] saw Shang-Chi and the Legend of the ... a flight home the next morning, so it was truly a fever dream of an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023