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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra ... Mitra and I talk about to the tune of 5.8 e-mails on an average day? Well ... 's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Hosed Exams=Cars, I'll show you how!

  

  in different weeks so that you have one or two exams to take every two weeks or so. But then there is this one week that just happens to fulfill ... , "Getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose" which is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  night on Friday to finish a conversation with a peer. A rite of passage ... medical or law school, feels easy. That’s why for most of us, IHTFP is a ... time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... to make food. Which is why I’m really really glad that MIT doesn’t make ... . Which is kind of embarrassing considering I have a cooking blog. :) While

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  accessible to me on a daily basis is much smaller.  Of course, that would be a ... , which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and/or ... absurd amount of people using it (as Vincent H. '23 can attest to), I’m on

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: how to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall

  

  homepage) is an international challenge that introduces students to ... data to the schools where the challenge is proctored to help them ... 're a student or a parent, you could forward this to your math or science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  happens to be on MIT's campus. Which is only 2. But still. 100%! Also I just ... , and go to study breaks on my new floor. I'll enjoy the company of all ... (who is now actually married to Adam) feels the need to be all "Sooooo, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America ... to put bikes in it," Cote recalled. Two weeks after arriving on campus ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  adapted to be a description of the stereotypical MIT engineer, this is wrong ... able to write on this site, so when the GEL program asked if I wanted to ... opportunity to be able to link some of the lessons I’ve had in engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  start in statistical thinking now. First, a few facts on which to chew: 1 ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe ... (and it's difficult to think of a school which would be a good control

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  :15: "MIT is the Harvard of science." 5:32 to 5:41: "Taiwanese at MIT are ... applicant's personality, which might not be captured on paper. 1:34 to 1 ... inclination." (me: umm, I think the EC is running out of stuff to say =p) Host

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  Product: This is a picture of our final plan that I had to pitch to the ... ” of multi-disciplinary engineers was tasked with trying to get three ... failures of the AC unit for the car leading to a few occurrences of smoke and

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  classroom or lab setting.   Isaac G. '17 Don't be afraid to put more on ... or you think your calendar is looking a little too bare. Try to figure ... while doing work or studying. Being able to type while reading on a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  like to tell my friends and relatives is that “IAP, which stands for ... friends are indeed using the first week or two of January to extend their ... Rock Band, go to a quick seminar or two...that sort of thing. I guess we

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  meaning of the word life is, or what the meaning of the meaning of the word ... (12.000) in the fall, which is, "designed to provide students the ... karate is enough to rid the planet of aliens should they invade earth, and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of ... in it with me, which is nice since it means I'll always have someone to ... It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  allowed to admit each year, it is better for us to compare all of the ... recieve a masters or a doctrates of philosophy from that point. Is it two ... , in two or three years. But to answer your question, most of my friends

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  After two and a half years here, you’d think I’d know most or all of what there is to know about MIT. But I don’t think I even come close ... that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  application season approaches. I hope to post it some day soon. That day is not ... editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes the introduction to E.L. Doctorow's novel City of God. I quote it for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  , though, is not the side of campus that your living group happens to be on ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East ... stereotypical MIT student may or may not be true, depending on whose version of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005