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  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 / Keep Calm and Carry On Getting some much-needed vitamin D on the other coast

  

  ="alignnone" width="1000"] A peek into my week of October 1st to 5th, categorized by ... it's already October. We're a third of the way into the semester ... of my friends are also graduating a semester early. It's one semester

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 30, 2018
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of class once the semester starts. Of course, there will be those pesky ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  was offering the items (like the jugs of cleaner) to the next tenant ... of other MIT undergraduate women. We're part of MIT's FSILG (Fraternity ... house, then after some investigating, they found that the source of the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  resources your school might offer. and of course if you have a better design ... i just finished 6.811, principles and practices of assistive ... tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Adventures on the Charles Aka we go outdoors sometimes

  

  This summer my friends (who are around, instead of doing cool internships elsewhere) and I are trying to take advantage of the random opportunities around Boston and MIT campus. A lot of these adventures start

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • June 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  spring here at MIT and spend a ton of time practicing, cross training and competing in my sports. I want to share my perspective on the pros and cons of playing a sport (or two) here and what type of adjustments being a

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  'm driving back home with my parents to spend the last few days of summer in CT ... francisco in the middle of the Nevada desert which would be my first time out ... shelter, the Laplacetopede, named in honor of the great mathematician, along

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Special October Events

  

  plenty to keep me busy. Here are some of the many events from this time of ... reminder of the dorm-wide pumpkin carving study break this Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the Porter Room. We have obtained carts full of the biggest (i

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  Last year, my class sizes were on the order of 100, 50, 60, and 20 ... our solar system, and getting a broad introduction to the universe using quantum physics and thermodynamics. Three of my professors have Wikipedia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  different degrees of awareness about why spending too much time on social ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have ... , but just kind of maybe her). The fact that I am here is mindblowing ... . After that there are three planned projects of unknown length, at least

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  rhapsodize about a slice of sweet, crunchy red apple dipped in balsamic vinegar ... flesh into a pool of red-freckled $11.99-per-bottle-balsamic, a tableful of faces stared in suspended disbelief, munchlessly unaware of how

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] a space for women at mit by Nandini Choudhury (WXGS Assistant Director)

  

  .[/annotation]Originally, women were not allowed to enroll—which was normal of universities back in ... , women made up 1-3% of the MIT student body. In 1964, Katherine Dexter McCormick—a MIT biology graduate—funded the construction of Mc

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • August 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I ... the rest of my life now? But on the other hand, I know that this chapter of my life is done and that in order to grow we need to put

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  Day 1, 6 PM Today is the first day of MARC 2025 (the Microsystems ... 's (MTL) annual conference, featuring two days of MIT students presenting ... underestimated the difficulty of snowboarding, which I quickly realized as I fell

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... be happy" [annotation note="First Day of My Life by Bright Eyes"]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020