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  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  experience life on the east coast. A lot of kids from my senior class went to ... (supposed to be) studying for a 9.24 (Diseases of the Nervous System) test ... decision soon, I thought I'd outline some of the reasons I chose MIT for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  discussion. And at the Expo booth, he offered me to try three of the labs! I ... the Libraries have to offer. I have frequently taken advantage of their ... The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  My rest & relaxation days ended in the beginning of July. After ... TV, and the company of old friends, I was definitely not looking ... my first taste of the working life. (P.S. One of my favorite moments

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  The MIT Class of 2017 Brass Rat was revealed on February 13th during the 2017 Ring Premiere. I had the pleasure of serving on the 2017 Ring ... Daniel Mirny and Lenny Martinez    Pictured: half of the auditorium

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger ... unread in a tiny corner of the internet, so I can dust off the MIT ... abundance of free time was a given) I’ve been spending less time on the

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Siete Ciudades de España A very busy IAP

  

  beachy city on the Eastern Coast of Spain. When I first showed up and ... beautiful 270 degree view of the entire of city of Barcelona, the ocean in the ... This IAP was my first time ever outside of the United States! El

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  paved bike path along the coast of South Bay. I started down at King ... students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the ... direct to LAX. I spent most of the flight napping and reading back issues

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  The Abstract The adventure density has been high

  

  representatives (some of whom tried to disguise the fact that they were representing ... , as a celebration of all the stress of senior fall: graduate school ... first went south, then to the coast, then up the coast, then back to Quito

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

  Greetings from MIT Labs! Introducing MIT: The Game

  

  ) MIT diploma We began closed beta testing of the game to our Early ... admissions staff, it allows students to experience all the best parts of an MIT education (burritos, roller coasters, and such) from the comfort of their own

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  afternoon, you could almost always start to feel the warming rays of sunshine ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... overarching theme: "seeing Spain" from the perspective of insiders and outsiders

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it ... than the stuff out of microwave boxes. 6. Videos and pizza with friends

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Saturday

  

  getting ready to play (and sweep) the Coast Guard Academy in an afternoon ... Merritt Roe Smith. After the brunches, all of the dorms provided house ... Battle of the Bands. Here, Huanan and Bryan sport their BotB shirts, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  's degree. [...] Do I have any chance of getting in to the Physics M ... caused by the earthquake off the coast of Taiwan. If Internet problems ... advance of the deadline. 3. Relax. Here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  DiffEq) math subject So, that's a total of 156 units beyond the General ... going to have to take close to the same large number of units as before ... /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Spring Weekend Concert Announced: Fabolous and Lloyd Banks

  

  One of the biggest events of the spring at MIT is always "Spring Weekend," and the highlight of the weekend is the annual Spring Concert ... cool events. On the Friday afternoon of every Spring Weekend, you'll find

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (2)… [Mathematics] Studying math at Cambridge and MIT.

  

  Exchange offers a wide range of experiences and can depend significantly on ... of individual motivation and tenacity to make it through the year successfully, i.e. earning first-degree class marks on the exams. In particular

  • by Cambridge
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Harry Potter and the Infinite Corridor (updated!) Don't even try to post a spoiler.

  

  Currently at Au Bon Pain in Harvard Square awaiting the arrival of ... ... try the Kickboxing PE Class Looking for History of Magic, try: 21A.211 ... Numbers Looking for Muggle Studies, try any one of the many classes the HASS

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  /o organizations at different elite east coast colleges. The theme of LUCh ... IAP externship offer for the month of January and had the opportunity ... to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009