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• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that ... consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student ... Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  would take more language classes (in vain, given the hell that is this ... humanities side is often neglected.   Ragù (Bolognese) sauce in its birthplace Bologna! Day 17: Learning is hard (I imagine)! I was pleasantly

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  . Taking a break from MIT has been a great privilege, one I'm aware is not an ... MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  this summer is tackling. Tulip, a spin-off from the MIT Media Lab LuminAR project, is creating a manufacturing platform to digitize factory processes ... . Work is divided into two-week sprints, where we organize ourselves into

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  ’s Sunday morning now, daylight savings time is weird) on the 6th floor of the ... ; GEL is no exception. In my time, I’ve noticed that at the ... involved with things is a lot of fun and normally not mind

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  while rooming in Burton-Conner is done on in a complex floor ... represent how small this room is. It's smaller than my AP Chem teacher. She ... into singles if they choose to stay in the dorms (about 50% of MIT guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  took place in the Boston Sheraton hotel and MIT's admission's office ... recently been through the application process but is now on the other side of ... began we realized that all of the font was in Times New Roman which is

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  with all my stuff and were staying at the Hotel at MIT, which is oddly ... now that my schedule is really wacky, I'll be updating more often! (I ... hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  down. She says: "MIT is not just a university - it's a concept, an ideal. The group we admit in the next few days is going to change civilization ... us head over to The Miracle of Science to decompress for a bit. MIT is

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  was AMAZINGLY inspirational, and columnist Dave Barry, who is always ... MIT admissions crew together for a dinner reservation at Bern ... exceeded our MIT per diems but it was worth every penny I had to spend - I

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  As you may or may not know, my job this summer is turning turkeys ... Maillard reaction. This is a non-enzymatic browning reaction which is usually ... , and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  MIT has an Independent Activities Period, which we call IAP, during ... are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year ... friends is justified (people are less busy than during the semester, and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a ... ! Over the past three weeks, the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team competed ... , we were ready to begin. The American Solar Challenge is a biennial

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  listening in on breakfast conversations. “The curse of this degree is that now ... at night, and since our mealplan is open to anyone we can have upwards ... about what was available to me at MIT; maybe because I entered college

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  't put a finger on why. Everything is ever so slightly more tiresome: each ... oddly still, like time has slowed and all that’s left in the world is you ... feeling bad is circular[/annotation]and probably not a good way to move

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I ... rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek ... inbetweenness of September is just so... gray. Today it's raining again. Normally

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  that my internship is wrapping up tomorrow, I'm reflecting on what I ... mean is, if I weigh compensation as a heavy factor in choosing what to do ... somewhere that is fast-paced and making important strides in a high

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  these past few weeks. The major theme here is the future, robotic arms ... story)   MIT's Marvel Cosplay Department Makes a Breakthrough ... of news we have two groups at MIT who are both working on robotic arm

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Period, but I think "It's Awesome Pterodactyl" is much more descriptive), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... the horrifying discovery of what "windchill" is. This year however, is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  midwest. The MISTI program (MIT Science and Technology Initiative) is paying ... through Seoul, and I'm holding it. This is not because of lack of access - I ... few interesting observations about this country: -It is a very long

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009