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• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  room and leaving a few posters on the wall. I was going to college. I ... course, i take a top bunk, and immediately try to piece together my ... movies, a fan, an animal pillow" [my eyes continue to wander] when i pan

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... into a sophisticated machine designed to verify that they weren't size ... Boston, a city where thousands of intelligent college students learn how to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  that it’s difficult for public officials to know how to act toward a ... at the world’s greatest academic institution, which happens to share a ... , I have not told you who is running; you have nearly a month left to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who you gonna call? The Mythbusters @ MIT!

  

  had the opportunity to try to bust the Archimedes Death Ray myth. So a ... : Last night, LSC hosted the Mythbusters, Adam and Jamie, who came to MIT to describe some of their work and how they get inspiration for what

  • by Bryan
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Only You Have The Power Only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give…

  

  I'm still reeling a bit from the last thread, I must admit. Let me say it simply guys... only YOU have the power to decide your own worth. Don't ever, ever, ever give that power to someone else. Don't give it to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  to the whims of a transactional public who view education solely as a ... stimulation of a diverse campus community. We seek to develop in each member of ... difficult to come away from a visit with a member of our staff without having

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  weekend! Wait, that’s a normal amount of sleep to get? Missed that ... use the provided parts to make air cannon to get a ping pong ball to ... try to take naps if you’re stressing about making a deadline. I

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2018 Spring Welcome Events Come to Your Area Get a head start on meeting other members of the Class of 2018.

  

  check it out – they’re a great opportunity to meet some potential future ... -dish pizza in Chicago while listening to a special performance by the MIT ... Indiana. But these are just a few so be sure to check the listing on your

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 20, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  class (21M.460), open to just about anyone with some sense of rhythm and a ... Senegal: One thing I forgot to mention - Lamine is actually a total ... the greatest benefits of coming to a university like MIT is that it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  musical, but I assumed that when I came to MIT, music would play a much ... decided I wanted to be in an instrumental group and a vocal group. I didn ... hearing other a capella groups perform, my desperation to join the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Quick Update I am busy, this is short.

  

  Well, I'm back from Atlantic City and have 3 million things to do in ... to 1.5 million things per day. Which is why this entry is short. Sanja said: I think I would just die if I were you... No, really, just to stand

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT through QuestBridge?

  additional MIT QuestBridge Supplement. You do not need to fill out a first ... science teachers to write one for you. If you are selected as a Quest ... If you’re applying to MIT through QuestBridge College Match, simply
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  &M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of ... note="Circuits and Electronics"]6.002[/annotation] as a follow up to 8 ... felt a bit bogged down about my inability to learn and pick up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  When I applied to be a blogger last summer, “what happened yesterday ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was still at MIT, so the night before “yesterday,” I took a train back to MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14] Unable to choose a single group, I decided to ... ended up staying all semester, which turned out to be a very bad idea by ... rehearsal twice a week. Also, playing in fewer pieces means less music to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of ... 're too tired to work, but have to work, take a 15-30 minute, 90-120 minute ... /or insomnia: take a walk outside on a sunny morning to help reset your circadian

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  had to work, I walked to and from school most days. I kind of cry a tear ... ,000 resident city-within-a-city, so we rarely had to leave. For my sophomore ... . Others wanted to go where most of their friends were going. I and a handful

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  -cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was ... education to drinking from a firehose. I'd like to go out on a limb and ... schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... reading assignments? We will make a summary of your responses to the ... this was probably mostly due to illness, but a lot of it still holds for

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 3 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Techiya and Beyond.

  

  ’s the third). All I knew was I wanted to be in an a capella group ... . Techiya's Fall 2010 Concert, "Once Upon a Techiya" It turned out to be a ... . Techiya, on the other hand, sings a variety of music, from slow liturgies to

  • by ARTalk
  • May 22, 2011