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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  rooms are filled with piles of psets. AND, here’s what I think is ... Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things differently over there. Namely, instead of 2 or 3 tests a term and then a final

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  I've just finished assembling and sealing hundreds of packages with the rest of the admissions team. Not my favorite part of the job (I'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• FAQ / Transfer

  What college should I attend to improve my chances for transfer admission?

  coursework, as well as co- and extra-curricular opportunities in your areas of interest. In other words, you should choose a college that will be a good fit ... MIT welcomes a small group of exceptional transfer students each year
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  class so big that people sit in the aisles.. of 10-250 (note: chairs in 10 ... a scavenger hunt and eating lots of food. Keri and I wish we were boys ... (Keep asking questions! I'll answer them next entry.) 9:30 AM: Woke

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build ... presentations are held annually in before a live audience of ~1300 designers ... 2.009: Product Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  seriously feels as though I spent more of last week in dance practice than I ... In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... dance as I did. As the host school, we didn't actually compete in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi(e) Day: The Baking Of created with love (and pies) by the bloggers

  

  treasury of comedic novelty photoshoot experience to pieing the bloggers in ... the tense scene. In slow motion, Tim waddles over to a table full of ... , licks pie off of Emad's horrified face, still in slow motion. On Sunday

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Random notes A little bit of this, a little bit of that.

  

  producing and is rumored to also be in the film. I don't know if you caught ... Chairman of the American Conference on Diversity. I'll be answering more ... A few random notes: Thanks for all the mini-contest entries! I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Leadership & Double Dare 11 pictures of the leadership conference, and 16 pictures of the Double Dare sex challenge

  

  Conference I attended last Saturday as part of Women's Week Here are organizers Neera '06 and Janet '06 with volunteer Kriti '07 Women meet in ... lunch in a banquet hall in the Hotel@MIT (Note, this is a link to the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named Returns Butterless popcorn and a little magic.

  

  Pending recovery from my illness, in a few hours, I will board a bus to head here to watch this movie in IMAX. I'm a "little" excited ... waited for the bus, but it was kind of cold so we did the group huddle. My

  • by Bryan
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trouble staying focused Finals. And about a zillion questions.

  

  .60 in depth, doing zillions of practice problems and perfecting my already ... taking catnaps and eating cookies. I've managed to get a few experiments in ... Ohhhh, finals week. This year, I have the distinct pleasure to only

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in ... bunch of undergraduate minions - I mean, employees - to help out with the ... in the Building 12 Athena cluster, where I've been working to finish up

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something ... 11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  another. i don't believe that friendships are defined by length-of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  I had all these entries planned for the next few days, but all of ... him when he sliced me in the face! Then I beat him up and kicked him ... .S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  MIT students were initially deferred; you can read some of their experiences here, here, here, here, here, here, and most recently here. Some of ... application anew and without prejudice in Regular Action. Understandably, you

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Sorry for the slight gap in entries, this weekend was crazy. I've got at least four entries that are in various stages of being writ. I don ... , the monkey pressed another button in front of him, but I couldn't tell

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  boston at night grab your headphones

  

  bike ride down the esplanade, bridges, night fog, ducks on the river, street music, city magic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of ... reading Rosalind Franklin: the Dark Lady of DNA by Brenda Maddox. I say ... of a scientist she was until I read the book. Hell, I didn't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Today was my first day and I decided to come in at 8:00 - which, in turn ... compared to my usual wake up time of 9:00 last semester, in order to make it ... proud of myself for making it on time - only to find that I wasn't even

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008