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• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  the start of my sophomore fall. This was around the time Cory found me ... dropsy (fish organ failure) but against all odds and online diagnoses he ... wooden toy from Max, which he gifted me at the same time as the pencil

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  if I wanted it. I dropped everything and pulled up flight times ... online guides said I'd be overwhelmed by the size of CES, and I was indeed ... performance by Alesso. Coincidentally somehow, we left the club at the same time

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  , we’ve been perceiving, or seeing, the world about 10^3 times ... , we must include the time it takes for the sound to travel up the well ... also measures how much information you can process at a time. In short

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time ... plushies in my sleep. By the time I scan the alleyway four stories down and ... , and only if I had time to pick it out in the morning. At the start of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  statistics and making train, plane, and hostel reservations online--got me to ... certain elements of the process. At the time, I thought it was a ... I even make it to the bank on time? Could I wait until Monday? Did it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  , but the real fun part of Pappalardo is the machine shop. Every Course 2 ... used to create cylindrical parts, for example a pin that needs a groove ... ; and a shower. Not sure exactly why this is here, but it's probably part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  Mushroom. So, this being the first of a hopefully four part series, here are ... , which we acquired at a time in a place 18) Four photo booth picture

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... ’t make an effort to travel. But every time I managed to drag myself out of

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  it is okay to not know a note for hs seniors (and others, too <3)

  

  senior year job interviews or what cereals does each dorm have, as soon as ... morphed many times, from “a pilot” to “a doctor” to “a scientist” to “a ... . In part, this is why I think “I don’t know” is so important as an

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  ) next to a friend of mine from Singapore. At the time, he was the only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  and we built it. The ends were already made, and we made the top part ... their current room. Often times, freshmen will move from doubles to ... Malaysia, they can still agree about their favorite part of the room. "It

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 2 The next installment of my saga...

  

  time had to do with what the ECs look for, what questions they ask and ... individual, and as a citizen of your world. You don’t make up for one part of ... but I do know that every time I checked with the EC about the interview

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  volunteered with her: Thanks again to everyone who contributed their time

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Food for Thought [guest post] On food and our culinary club, Mince

  

  project is analogous to integrating a pulse function, or a right/time ... ephemeral, but add it up — three times a day, 365 days a year, how many years ... examples. We are a 20-person team of students. Three times a semester, we

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  accepted a full-time Software Engineering job offer from Google. I’ll be ... pair of socks) but I came just in time to hear one of the Google ... part of it. ** The binoculars-shaped LA office was designed by Frank

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  fulfilling part of their MIT experience. I had not known about ROTC at all ... more job specific training. And, of course, you’re allowed to stay in ... own time as well. If you’re a high schooler applying for a scholarship

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  speaking English. I was also told that in some parts of Andorra, Catalan is ... , this was my first time teaching. I was placed at a school called the ... points of confusion. But since the school was part of the Andorran system

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  're even remotely qualified, which means submitting a "proof of time" for a ... of The Oatmeal).  I got an awesome time at that one, around 1 hour 50 minutes, which is what I used for my proof of time for Disney. Next was a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  This is the 3rd part of our 4 part Sentimental Objects series! Here are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... arcade that we went to the last time we hung out with our high school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part four) senior trinkets

  

  time to do so before we left campus in what was the craziest week of our ... video when Beth Malone, who played Alison Bechdel, sings a small part of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 24, 2020