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• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  . Course Picker: here, you can log in to save and edit your schedule for the ... styles. During Orientation, professors in various departments will talk ... . Adding, Dropping, and (Not) Failing If you feel overloaded in the beginning

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  graduate. In other words, this is for life. Fear not, though. After ... referred to by your username. "In some circles on campus, you may become ... hypothetical student named Alyssa P. Hacker: alyssa (Every once in a while

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  2, 6, or 18, as Ceri described in her awesome vlog):     ... really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time ... a while.  I'm the Lego guy. Sometimes I just grab people in the air

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the ... sky was breathtaking and relaxing. In the distance we saw an unusually ... thought of visiting this building we could see in the Cambridge skyline next

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  August 23, it means: Um...yeah, year is almost over. Might as well start in ... HAS ITS OWN GRAVITATIONAL PULL!!!! HELP, I'M BEING SUCKED IN! AAAAARGH ... ’t quite sure how to start up the New Year. Should I eat till I was blue in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thanks, man I'm feeling human again.

  

  coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally ... happen this morning. I woke up dead tired in the house we're renting here ... went to a bookstore in an old white house and looked through old Indigo

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring ... biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... to 3pm and then the banquet and afterparty following in the upcoming

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  After 8 months, I was finally in. In the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... virtually anything their heart desires. It's amazing. In case you're wondering ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  “TIMtalks”, in which MIT students who have invented, implemented, succeeded ... . Inspired by the wildly popular TED talks, the “TIM” in TIMtalks stands for ... happen. I included videos of the talks in this entry, and I highly

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  -like models... so we started designing our blasters in Solidworks, a computer ... ...*cough* *cough*... But the important thing is that the Equalizer came together in the end! In fact, all the team's projects came together at the very

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter ... way to the 2012 Livestrong Assembly, held in Austin, Texas. As co

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  in the dentist chair and looked at the window, trying to concentrate on ... do between now and next Sunday than I have ever had in one week, ever ... remember starting to giggle - and then my eyes were closed and I was in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  of 8 feet, we found that almost 13 cubic meters of snow were used in ... tetherball in two feet of fresh powder Peter '13 smiles as he (as it appears) pulls every muscle in his back          (He's fine, actually) Jordan

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... different. In terms of classes, this upcoming semester is going to be my most challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my ... Magazine as one of the 10 Best Entrepreneurship Classes in America.) I'd say ... build a viral events framework in a technology ecosystem), I've found that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  kinda nice:   In fact you may have seen this movie starring us ... before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... back in college. It was made out of schedule 40 PVC and would shoot a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  ) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its ... receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  In the summer of 2011, MISTI sent 22 Biology students across the ... . What next? I may return to France in IAP or next year as part of ... can use the technical portions of my internship in my UROP. In the long

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011