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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... was away for much of my internship, I was handed a large deal of ... segments, which are then robotically assembled in space.  For my project I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop background for most of my junior year. I'd had my eye on the closet door it's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a ... London. I don't really want The Internet to know my address, so for the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me now... Some things are definitely the same - for instance, I wrote this

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes it took for my plane to arrive, board, depart, and probably get to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  things for an hour. I eventually had to give up on ever fitting my laptop ... Panama. I remember pretty much none of it (including take-off) except for the delicious ravioli (I woke up in time for lunch :)). Raphael woke me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  (100 yards) in droves, and receive a free t-shirt as a reward for not ... were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year ... in a few minutes (for those last two PE Points!) and the swimming pool

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  up for a ton of clubs. If my brain didn't want to meet people, I ... do social things it enjoys--singing, for example, or dancing, and ... waiting for class to begin. The magic of making friends, of course, is that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Taking Care of Yourself Eating, Sleeping, Water and Vitamins pave the way to happiness

  

  diversify your food groups, and for when this fails take your vitamins. Step 2 ... as your mother would like and for those of us who have an indifference for all things green, there are Vitamins. While Step 1 has definitely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  at MIT, but they must be seized. For those students who take initiative ... that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... for those who cannot afford education or healthcare) and Embrace

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for ... important being its cuisine! (And for those of you who know me, it should be ... Assam – it’s famous for its tea and it’s home to the hottest pepper in the

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  for most people, they go through a rotation as the year goes round and temperatures and conditions rise and fall. For me, summer and fall mean rock ... sheet deep enough for you to support yourself on, and kicking spikes on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  "submit" as the January 1 deadline came and went. For some the wait is over, while for others it has just begun. In the admissions office, we are ... limited availability relative to the significant demand, for the exceptional

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  ! Well, let's back up a little bit… For one reason or other that I cannot ... might come from having been at MIT for a while already - from becoming an "upperclassman" and developing a programmed rhythm for handling a semester, all the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Complexity of Simplicity Not as paradoxical as it sounds

  

    Did you know the soda can top (or "pop" can for those of you ... 'm averaging 12hrs a day in lab with at least another 4 spent on work for that ... understand firsthand while exploring the mechanism for my 2.009 project (whose

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faith Embracing uncertainty as the world changes around us

  

  that my faith was being tested. I kept calling for God. After a few ... Emergency Department asking for more pain-killers, the middle-aged woman ... neighbors’ house repeatedly screaming for hours. “Why would God want this for

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice. Instead, I bumped ... bump into you on your way to your favorite hipster coffee shop. For the ... messy world, with way too many languages, frameworks, and paradigms for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  any excuses, I've been looking for ways to recharge myself and face the ... that were clear around me were the oceans - and, for a moment, my mind ... (which you can enlarge by clicking on them): For much of my life, the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  sitting for more than 2 minutes. But those who could stand to talk to me for ... get into for the day. I first found this cool, miniature museum exhibit ... spot for the summer, the friendly neighborhood Starbucks. I was in for a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011