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• Blog / Academics & Research

  And the End Closes In My last semester as an MIT undergraduate

  

  is just, well, FUN. After spending the semester learning how to use my camera (and learning other things as well, I suppose), it was exciting to ... Journalism: Still Images of a World in Motion. Although admittedly it is a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In Just a quick note to say hi from the depths of reading.

  

  fairly normally before we'd even left the ER. It's hard to describe how ... harder for air. It's the first time I've been that scared for one of my ... -hand - the power of research. In this case it was medical research, but the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  's birthday shenanigans... LBizzle asked, "How does cross registration work and how easy is it to set up?" MIT has cross registration ("crossreg") with ... of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  in a long time. It taught me that if I just persevere and don't give in ... number is 6.186 -- MASlab is a course 6 class, but it is also listed in courses 2 and 16, which means you can take it for EECS, Mechanical

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... -metapost? It's gonna be a good day. Speaking of, why do people shorten "organic chemistry" to "orgo"? Does Inorganic Chemistry (all the cool kids are calling

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I ... old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right this is how I hire bloggers   Be a blogger! As usual, we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  of its regular denizens (Hi, Nance. You too, Ben.) I was asked why my ... ’s all fine and good, Keri, but what does this have to do with anything at ... street to the Kendall/MIT T station around 1:45 and easily made it to Logan

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  general. About aging, and feeling so… lost. About how difficult it can be to ... this happens; It’s probably some combination of the pressure to be happy ... acknowledging that it is possible for anything to hurt you enough to make you cry

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  regaled them with stories of how the massive fish had been built, how it was a beautiful work of art, how water flowed gracefully across its screen, but also how they'd built it in the hallway and nobody had been able to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  important step. If your EC has not gotten back to you, and it has been a long ... your MyMIT portal. It is okay if your teacher or counselor does not ... ; It's November 1. MIT Early Action applicants are wondering, what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  In the South for prospective students; in the mail for incoming students Travel & email.

  

  employers, everyone, all the way through your senior year and beyond. It does ... will be mailed next week, be patient). What does the NBM include? A ... is the one that generates the most excitement. For many students, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  yes, I only had one, and yes, it was for an intro class since I’m one of those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in ... , its mission, and its policies. Here's my favorite quote from the sexual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  . Sometimes, we would row long and slow all the way up to Watertown, and even if ... , yanking the rudder ropes around like it was Head of the Charles. Other days ... , horribly, and beautifully. It was dark and I was about to leave the Macgregor

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  occasion is scheduled for June 7, as it is traditional for MIT commencement ... you're in wants you to pay a whole month's rent when you only need it ... note="You call it corn major, we call it maize course

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  on in the code. This one also had a README_IF_IT_WAS_WORKING_AND_IT_DOES ... sentimental. Everyone tells you how fast it goes, but goodness. This whole ... communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  :16 How much does the interview matter?? 4:16 What if I bomb the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  I've spent the last five months living at home on Long Island, New ... growth. When I look back on all of the long drives west from Long Island to ... in a new place this fall, but one thing I'll definitely about Long

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  counterargument. “If it’s not honey, why does it stick to things? Checkmate, safety ... , tempting as it may be. 1. Hot Glass Doesn’t Taste Like Honey Imagine this – it’s 8 pm, and you’ve been blowing glass for four hours straight. You

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  diversity, how is it that geography ended up such a predictor of "normal" vs ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... "normal" (though really, there's a limit to how normal anyone at MIT is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  it does make me feel better for a little bit. As I mentioned in an ... . This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022