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  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  entirely comfortable. I'm writing this mostly to document how far I've come ... clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 4

  

  of you who went to an admitted student party in your hometown, how was ... Lupe (who I'm looking forward to seeing at CPW!) asked, "is it pretty simple to travel on train or ? from Logan to MIT?" We'll be running a bus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 25, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  reviewing all publications, PSB staff are researching archives to see how MIT ... . Remember from way, way earlier, how I sent a request to Distinctive ... choice illustrations from this site about how not to use Tim the Beaver

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this ... think I should start learning how to cook this winter break lol Uh, I don ... best person to ask. Clark Poland: I'm curious, but how much of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  school so it was really nice to be able to experience the great outdoors ... a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... frolicked in the forest to collect firewood and climb trees.  As twilight

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  last concert

  

  figure out how to put everything together myself, after having relied on ... around two weeks ago usually we hire a sound company to handle sound on ... concert, and four days isn’t enough notice to book another company so we

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 26, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  mean, it's something I need to do. But who I am is more than that. How do ... ). Sometimes people ask me why I'm doing this to myself, but I just tell them that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  ’t know how she’s going to survive any further north, but ok). The other ... I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... -or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  how to code in three weeks. The lab assistants, TAs, and lecturers were ... IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... preparing for all IAP--6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and Computer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  ’m Elizabeth ‘14, one of Anna’s many friends). I’m here to talk about teaching at ... things to love about the MIT student community, and one of them is that we ... the many other (see #17) ways to teach,* you are most definitely coming

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  Agent: So you teach people how to swim? Me: Oh, no. You get to teach ... you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and ... : Yep! TSA Agent: Wow, physics. Great time to be a physicist, with all the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... to do for the rest of your life. For some, this moment appears ... experience it more synthetically, be it the pressure to earn a living, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home, so let me do my best to help you understand. When I got to campus we got to work right away planning and organizing orientation events for

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Trevor ‘13 The sixth in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  people who enjoys puzzles, and figuring out how to improve renewable energy ... during a class barbecue to celebrate the success of their woodworking venture, which he helped direct. Zinser likes to work in the wood shop, lift

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This entry has a surprise ending While you wait for decisions to come out, I remind you that people at MIT…

  

  manner, by which I mean that I had probably forgotten how to add properly ... doing laundry. (The “Did You Know?” opener is a throwback to the olden ... to start my entries with some useless metaphor instead.) A few weeks

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  how long you'd have to own a hybrid car for the extra initial cost to ... first semester senior who just decided to change her major around, this ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... , also works there and yesterday she offered me a ride back to Boston. "Sure! I'll take a ride back, why do you have to go to Boston?" Turns out

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... us banded together and decided on our goals: to have as much fun as physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  room Figuring out how to get my computer to print to our dorm’s printer ... for what’s to come. Then, before you know it, blasted in the face by the ... . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006