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  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , otherwise one is bound to forget things when one is rushing to get out the ... Paris or Nicky though) and grabbed the MIT boxes that were waiting for me ... . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  conclusions," Dr. Perelman said. "Because M.I.T. is a place where everything is ... New York Stock Exchange (maybe I'll see fellow MIT alum and NYSE CEO ... conference and sat in on a panel on the new SAT writing test. Dr. Perelman is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and ... explanation is in the next section. If you ARE familiar with it, skip ahead ... of this phenomenon if people expressed interest. So, here it is. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Comics and Role Models I interviewed one of my favorite professors because she’s amazing

  

  infinite/amorphous time void that is IAP. Although I had plenty of wonderful ... about teaching at MIT. How would you describe yourself/what do you do? I ... tell stories in so many different mediums. How did you find MIT and what

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  relaxed as my MIT language classes - in fact, Arabic is the only emotionally ... favorite class. I guess this is what they mean when they say MIT students are ... , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  after giving blood. MIT is really like that. Anyway, somebody had a ... first term at MIT. There is an advanced standing exam, but don't even ... DID YOU KNOW? Bonsai Kittens were a hoax started by MIT students

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a ... 's worth mentioning that the major I wrote down on my MIT application is NOT ... land far, far away (approximately 3270.65 miles* from MIT), there is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  workplace is no MIT. I didn't quite understand what they meant by this when I ... : the workplace is no MIT. This past summer, I found myself struggling to ... , "What is the place you've worked at that you're most proud of?" My heart

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  imperfect fragments of our nostalgia. Three. MIT is not a place. It's never ... 've probably picked up that a big part of what people love about MIT is the ... You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  tells Northern Californians she goes to MIT, their first comment is always ... be a little more thorough than the average MIT student would go, but not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  of the things that I appreciate about my MIT experience thus far is ... at MIT? Hmm...well I think what I want to say is that sometimes it ... , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack ... will always regret that, but regardless, the feeling is still the same. I ... of this is paraphrased, seeing as inner seventh grade Cami was just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Asymmetric Discussion of Shoes, the Process of Moving, and 3D Glasses Physics problem included. Some assembly required.

  

  Today I will tell you how to get into MIT. You get into MIT by wearing thick, waterproof shoes, because the road to MIT is paved with slush ... . MIT is not a school for the daintily-shod. For that, I direct you to the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  enough to major in management at MIT? Is math even a major part of it? You ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I ... 's left from last semester is a bunch of pictures that I'm about to share ... what finals week did to the 213 suite. First of all, everyone is always

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  The blogs have been quiet lately. Summer is ending, freshman are arriving on campus, upperclassmen are returning to campus, admissions ... hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... Chinese radio and talking. My mother’s soymilk is thicker than the store

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... . Right now, life is pretty good. It’s Sunday, September 14th, 2014. I ... so far. Summer, high school, and Minnesota seem so distant that MIT has

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  There’s No “I” in Team There's also no "Tennis" or "Senior Day", but that won't stop me from writing about…

  

  In just four short weeks, my time as a MIT freshman will draw to a ... , the internet is forever), and I look forward to the ones I’ll have in ... the greatest senior days ever. Here is a recipe that I have recorded

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , the eating is much cheaper than the MIT meal plan, so if this month goes ... . Last Friday, my older brother (MIT '11) and I took off from San Francisco ... coworkers cracked snide comments (something something "MIT" something "not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014