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  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  really cool adventure. My research internship was part of our MISTI program ... the internships are fully funded. So as for my experience, I will start ... deadline for the Mexico program when I applied, as was my friend Marcus, whom

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my friends as much as from my classes, have been things I wouldn’t expect to be ... one of my favorite things I didn’t realize were math: paper art. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  month in response to my choice of dorm has been astounding: “What does ... being added next to my name—from East Campus. May show up to work with ... furniture to ceiling when bored.1 I’m a pretty vanilla EC resident. My

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... . My friend Seth Mnookin, who wrote a book about the anti ... separate. As I got into my second year and started taking more of my course 7

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  the ear buds. Dimmed cabin lights are perfect for introspection. My ... finances, health, lifestyle, and academics have been my responsibility since ... months, and I can cross the catastrophes off my record. Next semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bump MIT students design products

  

  The past weeks of my life have been consumed by 2.009, MIT's famous ... become my second home because as one of the System Integrators on this team, it's my responsibitlity to help organize and guide our team to win make

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... App – and our application is only available at MyMIT. Here are a ... create a separate recommendations account for this, in addition to your My

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Time to Enroll You have doubts, I have gifs

  

  ; 1. Are there normal people there?/Are 'my kind of people' at MIT ... . If you don't want to take my word for it, comment with your must ... outside my office).   2. I don't think I can handle the curriculum at

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  to present my research at AAS conferences, and membership turns out to ... the dates were during my spring break, said "heck yeah," and applied ... representatives My group consists of myself, a PhD student from Georgia, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  educate myself about anything that might be relevant to my 12-year-old self ... . Disillusioned and concerned for my lip health, I started looking for other sources ... currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  or call us again after Monday morning, November 26 (I will do my best ... this holiday. If you are an Early Action applicant and your My ... MyMIT tracking shows a missing component, please be patient as we are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  introduced this post afterall. ANYWAY #6. Get Junot Diaz to sign my book. This is Professor Junot Diaz. This is a book that wrote, one of my all-time favorites. When I accepted my offer to come to MIT, one of the first thoughts

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  I’m standing in front of my presentation boards, trying to string ... speaking, my sentences were already loopy, my hand wavering between various ... ’ve stopped taking in the words that are coming out of my mouth. Before I knew

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  past few months or so, or at least the past three weeks), I disengage my eyes, and allow my feet to trace a well-worn path that gets me from where ... shouldn't do that. Even though that's how my life has been lately, I lucked

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is probably my favorite season. I'm just not built for the beaches and heat ... my disappointment when I'm eagerly waiting for a huge storm to blow in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  16.810 Rapid Design and Prototyping 8 days to build an airplane. Intrigued?

  

  . Throughout my childhood, a small walk in closet in the basement of my house was ... sets (likely well over 10,000 lego pieces by my 13th birthday ... model RC airplane called the Parkzone Radian. And instead of my basement

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  many additions I have made to my vocabulary since I commenced my study at ... thought: “Why not blog about my life here in Cambridge, from my classes or ... reading about my college journey, at MIT and abroad. Hopefully I will be

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my ... time to login to MyMIT and make sure everything is in! To recap, you may ... received a number of comments on my last post from students concerned about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  , helped me move one of my finals to the end of the summer. It was no fun to ... me to explain. Immediately after turning in my 6.170 pset on Sunday ... my email to find that the due date for the algorithms pset, by a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  In Matt’s latest post he says that MyMIT will be up August 19. This ... in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you ... , especially in summer. Here are my picks: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011