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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  two week reprieve from all responsibility, I had the chance to meet up ... all day to make up for the noticeable absence of air conditioning. Our ... is so conveniently located more than makes up for the little quirks and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Round 2 Microsoft, brains, British accents, hiking in the Alps, weightlifting, HIMYM

  

  Redmond, WA And what are you up to? Product mechanical engineer intern at ... , trying to wrap up the current project and then moving onto the next one ... sweet. What are you up to for the rest of the summer? I’m working on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  made up of shops that look onto the streets, small shops always abuzz ... verify it. But tweets about the bomb were popping up. Facebook and BBM ... with whom to catch up. But in the face of this blast, I seemed to float

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... near there. One longish tube journey later, I showed up half an hour ... , and glanced up at me with a little twinkle in his eye. Interviewer

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

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  the authority to open up the wall whenever he likes. It also means that ... from Building 14 caught up with us. They had heard the exchange, and the ... PROJECT!” Lucas and I walked up the stairs into Walker Memorial. I said

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few ... signed up, I agreed to teach Biology and Chemistry. I love those subjects ... , I hadn't expected SAT skills to come up again in my life, but studying

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

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

  

  the profound interpretations we were expected to come up with felt like b.s. or exercises in covering your tracks after messing up. But then I ... riled up. Some people thought that it was too artsy, shallow, superficial

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  your algorithm doesn't work, an astronaut nearby can just pick it up and ... become a surgeon. She stopped after I said I wanted to cut up rockets ... "we need a way to connect pieces of metal" and the solution they came up

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the process of "WHAT???? HOW DID SOMEONE EVEN COME UP WITH THIS???"-->"I KNOW ... that I can't resist sharing. If you decide to get up and practice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  weeknight, which ended up being much better for my test than studying for it ... catching up on sleep and singing with the Toons. Which brings me to the third ... up in official "Tooniforms": black shirt, black pants, and colored ties

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  I wasn't sure I was up for dealing with a cape for an entire day of ... over a button-up Oxford shirt tucked in neatly, so I did admittedly feel ... the difficulty of trying to dress up as "human, male version of an

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  our Early Action process. We will accept up to November test scores for Early Action, and up to January test scores for Regular Action. Q: If I ... application shown up on my MyMIT tracking page? A: Colleges only just received

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  HackMIT. I found out about it back in August and wanted to sign up ever ... tightened up security outside of HackMIT and now they wouldn’t let any MIT ... dressing up a statue in honor of the ending of a TV show. It's the little

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  anticlimactic finale to Day 1 of Eric Lander's legendary 7.012 course: Up next ... lecture hall classes at MIT are broken up into recitation sections. A few ... gets up and talks at us for 1-1.5 hours. On the days we don't have

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... show up 2-3 hours before the house opens, and the box office has a ... manager and call the show. Which I may have signed up to do. (Hello again

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  and plan on going this year. It’s freaking awesome.) I woke up at ... with warm fuzzy creative feels, I met up with my friends Jamal E. ’13 and ... /reverse-jenga but with ice cubes. Kinda messy, but it looks easy to set up anywhere

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  , the psets are already rolling in, the reading is piling up, and the ... 's over 300 student groups and organizations set up booths in the Z center ... little time. I ended up putting my name down for more clubs than I could

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  "Okay, everybody! Shut up!" Aaron*, dance coach of the MIT Ballroom ... we roam MIT and Boston, losing sleep and loading up on free food, free ... noobs like me, every time he sets up the line), and I can now almost make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  year 2 of the course 2 how do you become a mechanical engineer, anyway?

  

  's just skip to the next point), Even with his whole morning booked up ... gazillion followers on Twitter, so I'm hoping to pick up some of his secrets ... whatever other gorgeous media extravaganzas the Times has come up with by the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  freshman spring semester I signed up for both a 6.01 and 6.042 tutors and it ... doubled up again and signed up for tutors in both 6.005 and 6.046. Sadly

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013