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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... of things like "can eat five plates of food at dinner",* "can make ... insights about Career Fair right now is kind of like expecting a gorilla to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer ... some retail therapy and watched a few episodes of Friends to distract ... loving MIT and choosing the institute as one of your college options. Thank

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  majority of my time since classes have started has been spent doing something related to photography. I’ve taken plenty of HASS classes in my day, but ... Journalism: Still Images of a World in Motion. Although admittedly it is a

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

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we ... have been quite exciting AKA lots of hard work! We scouted out our first

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech ... through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  field (Physics, Mathematics, Urban Studies, etc). One of the most popular fields among our students, however, is Computer Science. In the summer of ... Computer Science than from any other major. Here is brief look at some of

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The ... the image of Sputnik and talking with friends about math and economics

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  a good sense of this.  There are some things that are intentional ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images without the constraints of pre-drawn lines to color inside of.  There are

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting, direct applications etc. Less than 20% of students got their job

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  . As it turns out, this semester was.....well....I learned a lot of "extracurricular lessons". We'll put it like that. But an unintended side effect of ... things! So what exactly am I up to for the summer? Well a little bit of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  the end of the semester. All three groups had their end-of-semester concerts on the same weekend, which coincided with end-of-semester projects, the last round of psets, and other hecticness. By the end of the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  befitting an Institute of Technology. (Just writing that sentence made me feel ... hipster. You just don't TALK about this kind of thing) For example, I ... this winter, as Boston has certainly received its fair share of snow. (As

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Complementary in Kinetic Typography Posted with permission from the author. Meet Rishi '14!

  

  a ton of MIT internal email lists that I am on. I proceeded to get ... it a few days ago! (Sorry Rishi!) Anyhow, this is certainly one of the ... about the competition I was facing and the level of excellence that would

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 23, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... access to a computer. A friend of mine had promised to let me use her ... me. It took me a great deal of nerve to do that, to know that if I were

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he was perfectly willing to spend an hour of his time today explaining it all to me - so now, I understand it in a kind-of-not-really sort of way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where You’re Going, Where I’ve Been CPW! YEEAAAH!

  

  as many of your options as possible. Campus visits really helped me ... generation of MIT students. CPW will be all kinds of fun. Click here to browse through all 660+ events. I recommend getting an idea now of what all you

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  prospectives or tourists, I explain that the rivalry is kind of a one way rivalry. MIT loves to trash Harvard, tell all sorts of stories about how Harvard ... to be traders on Wall Street. I think the class of 2012 t-shirts say it

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... cooperative effort between students and Division of Student Life is bearing fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  operated on my sense of time, then the concept of "morning" would be applied ... sleeper who could slumber through the initiation of a massive nuclear war ... are my stepdad, you are probably laughing so hard you just fell out of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009