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  Blast from the Past

  

  of Splash! MIT has a student group called the Educational Studies Program, or ESP. They put together all kinds of cool programs where MIT students teach local high schoolers a huge array of topics. Splash! is a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , though it may vary slightly depending on your dorm. This list is based on Next House: 1. A telephone (the MIT phone policies keep changing, but as ... . Getting a bicycle is not absolutely necessary, but I would recommend it if

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high ... , since it is still October, and the snow was pretty wet. What is weird is ... last week or so... Timur said, "I hear MIT even has a mailing list

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  optical illusions don't try this at home kids. use the crosswalk whenever possible.

  

  So one of the perks involved with being an MIT student is the ability ... think I have learned at MIT to be is spontaneous, and I decided to change ... their coolest permanent exhibits is their indoor lightning storm. Warning

  • by Bryan
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  life with augmented reality This January, VR@MIT is teaching the first ... calories later- I went to an event put on by the MIT Innovation Initiative ... Roberts, a professor at the MIT Sloan School. They had listened to Ed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  MIT have these "Hell weeks" where there are lots of tests and projects ... . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... been passed down through MIT generations as a sort of rite of passage. To ... -Year Program students. This is an opportunity for us to tell the staff what we

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivered celebrating halfway at the finish line

  

  , this semester is their last one at MIT. Celebrating now as mostly ... friends at MIT[/caption] I also [annotation note="this is not a confession ... .facebook.com/EricaYuenPhoto)[/caption] My Brass Rat is a reminder of how special my time at MIT has been and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  clings and clangs of construction (because Boston-Cambridge is always under ... I noticed about MIT--that underlying, unshakable thumpthumpthump that ... find myself once again back on the MIT grounds. I'm unsure of when the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  say that mit is a great place and you should seriously consider ... level. my secret writing tip is to just write enough bullet points and ... a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... . to be honest, at the time, i thought my mit application was pretty ... is, and as much as i want to look at this paragraph and say that i was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  easily recorded than ever before. So here is a random assortment of photos ... ’re arranged in order. ( by the way, ‘random’ is a Python module that helps with ... , MEng '17, for a picnic. April Researching at the Media Lab is honestly

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  this is related to MIT or college life in general, or at least I hope ... get disproportionately disappointed when a friend is eating near me and ... food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  you sprightly prefrosh came rushing into MIT for the one and only Campus Preview Weekend, the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team was in lab, packing up ... 's pretty sexy.) What, you might ask, is DBF? DBF is exactly what its name

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... lounge at the bottom of the New House 6 staircase: And, as is our nature ... , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A not-so-typical day in the post-FYRE life Reporting live from ESP's Firestorm

  

  and classes tonight: Actual MIT Courses: 5-minute edition! -An average ... Girls and Literary Analysis -Banach-Tarski Paradox MIT Survival -Baking ... -Student Government at MIT Serious Stuff with Silly Names -Serious Chemicals

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  water balloon fight? This weekend was Bad Ideas Weekend.  MIT students ... what it is, but it definitely says Bad Ideas on it and it advertises Bad ... quickly found that being a vegetarian during Bad Ideas Weekend is a bad idea

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  ... unique situation that is mildly difficult to explain. "Hey Connie, what are you doing ... ) through the MIT Alumni Association facilitated program that matches students with job opportunities offered by MIT alumni. These positions cover

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... compare stats on some of the most popular Olympics topics (who the heck is ... was the first time I’ve ever exercised it in an industry setting. MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  our understanding of the universe.  One of those winners is an MIT professor, and the inventor of The Inflationary Theory Of Cosmology, which is ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012