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• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  promise to serve you well in your quest to learn more about MIT. Let me ... 't satisfied to simply recreate our print materials in the online space. That ... please don't hesitate to contact me with ideas or requests. Before I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  first snow it snowed on campus

  

  hometown of Portland, OR. To be honest, my first year at MIT, the heavy New ... in Cambridge, MA. Wherever you are in the world, please take a moment to enjoy these various snow photos taken by MIT students

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Kendra

  

  advance sustainability in the developed or developing world. There were ... representing 65 teams from more than 50 schools participated in the first "P3" competition, which was held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on May 16

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for ... at my hotel before checking in at CPW. Did I really want to go to MIT ... motivation among friends to get stuff done (in startup speak: GSD.) Halfway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... evening trip to 7-11 in the 30-degree weather - we've figured out that milk ... or for some artificially-low price), and the time to remember when I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  to know the other freshmen in your program. Most (all?) departments ... Mechanical Engineering to even programs like Freshman Leadership Program or ... offers to email intro me to one that he knows. In that email though, he

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS ... marks and such in plain text, and this makes me so, so happy. Umm...it's kind of pathetic, I suppose, that I just figured out how to do this. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  to you for my dad's desire to keep expired milk in the world a little ... brought to you by the letter E! EEEE!") In a perfectly formed and ... to take my word for it. But I go to MIT. I know a thing or two about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... 2 or 3 page typed lecture notes every day, in a monotone, it's the ... leads me to my next point: MY BIGGEST TIP FOR SUCCESS in your freshman

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  four novels, to be read in the first four weeks, with additional craft ... Harvard it is societally easier to major in a humanities field. For example ...   favorite restaurants in Boston, so I'm happy to be near them so frequently

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  'estaloam', which can be stretched to mean 'this soil' in Spanish. As in 'Mira ... opportunities to travel globally, but while it's not summer or IAP, local ... substitution, or u-substitution, in that monthly amounts are probably good for

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  to because they came in the mail. In tubes. We also walked six miles to ... be scared together because in six days, I'll be six days closer to ... : Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II! 1. Consider majoring in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  of them but there are only 24 hours in a day and you also have to get ... part, the system (or the sanity that a few students seem to have) keeps ... do with math later in life?" Fast forward a month to... OUR FIRST MIT

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  . Literally dozens of opportunities for you to explore new research or get a job ... away from the wall. Now, in the lab, we played around with the “gain” or ... in the jaw or tickle you till you’re in hysterical, clucking tears. Or

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  in class we got to break away fromo background information to get some ... impressed that you know what its called or think you're just trying to show ... butts or take one 5-credit class: =P P.S. Break was nice but I'm glad to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Senior Fall Classes Better late than never

  

  -Photorealistic Rendering or NPR is a technique in computer graphics used to render 3D models ... of the big reasons we decided to take course 6 classes in the first ... rotational symmetry like a wine glass or pottery, and another function to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  written. I couldn’t say why, but it just had to be, and in the absence of ... boxes they reside in. I just want to talk about the process of bringing ... mingling and pulling me in all directions when the launch ended. But to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... "The author has filed this entry in the 'Life After MIT (Careers ... ." ...wow. Get ready folks, this is not an either or entry. You get both

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  will undertake independent research projects in economics. will have to ... to engage in self-sabotage. i now live in a super quiet place (relative to anywhere i lived in EC, at least), and my walls are white. in

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  're in? Coming back to Valenzuela, my hometown, feels especially painful ... out to the lounge at one in the morning and see people working. It's not ... however many times I've tried to burn it in my muscle memory, I'll still

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021