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  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  hours a day, six days a week, for several weeks in a row. It’s hard to ... first week. Let’s just say that I’m an unrecognizable skier. I obviously ... Mountain (also Chris Peterson’s home mountain!!!), and we’re on the first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that’s ... sciences. It’s completely undergraduate-run, but produced with support from ... are invited to MIT’s campus in April 2016 to meet expert judges and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: Parts 1 and 2 for Early and Regular Action applicants

  

  . MIT is competitive, but it’s not a competition. There are no judges to ... recommend (and here’s what I said last year): Write your essays before ... character. Describe yourself (see 3). (For more, here’s who MIT wants.) Have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live in East Campus for free, bond with Ceri R. ‘16, who was also taking 7.S ... . Here’s what I found out: Process It might look like I am sketching cows

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  homepage. I’d encourage you all to watch it if you’re interested--it’s pretty ... concept (let’s use integrals as an example). Your teacher talks about ... . Most people get B’s. Some get A’s. Sometimes a lot get A’s. Some get C’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  that art for art’s sake is reason enough. As Robin Williams said in Dead ... destructive because of the force behind it. (If it were, by Newton’s Third Law ... movement, changed the public’s view of space exploration, and encouraged

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  unintentionally (I'm working on this whole photogenic thing).   P.S. Victory! Beat the Sunday at midnight deadline :) P.S.S. Welcome new ... this year! P.S.S.S. I don't know why YouTube isn't letting me pick a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for ... Congress, now the US Representative for New Jersey’s 12th congressional ... Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  roasted apartment in Boston. Fantasies aside, it’s a fact that many MIT ... , read all of the Arthur books, and played Arthur’s Reading Games on the PC ... project I’m working on at WGBH is PBS LearningMedia, which is PBS and WGBH’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  . “This line is for the Melancholia film screening. It’s by ... von Trier’s most recent work in my inbox. I showed the doorman the ... sequence (a la Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life) set to Wagner’s

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  since CPW/orientation days, and it’s always been between China and France ... architecture department at Tsinghua University (colloquially called China’s MIT ... finding authenticity – the feeling of being in a completely different world...that’s

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  conductor. He’s very fun, energetic, and he comes up with the most ... now, you’re sleeping on a water mattress- only, it’s frozen ... director. He’s very professional, patient, and supportive. He pays

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  the grime of the day. The showering is the easy part, though-it’s the ... (actually, I don’t. But it’s the principle...). That’s where Maggie’s ... ....Just click here to begin! This Saturday we put Maggie’s system to the test, as

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  your way...and you go with it, because there’s nothing to wake up for ... ,000,000 minutes of getting-fit-@-MIT. Those are some big numbers. It’s easy to see ... hopping on the “Wooo! Let’s get fit!” bandwagon. When Molly first sent out

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Terence ‘13 The second in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  , 2009 It’s very parents dream... for their child to graduate high ... ? Count on WJBF News Channel 6’s Fraendy Clervaud. He has the story. Augusta, GA—It’s packing day for 17-year-old Terence Dalbert

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the palm of your hand.” “Really? I always thought it was faster. It’s ... .” “Just trust me. It’s a lot much faster with your thumb. Just always keep ... tiny. “Who’s your favorite supervillain?” We buzzed in to give our

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... 1960s, and I ended up doing my graduate work at the same observatory

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2024 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where ... and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT ... funding. Many master’s programs are not free, so sometimes there is a ... different. This is also a symptom of growing up, not just being in a master’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  What up, squad!! It’s been quite the week for MIT Women’s soccer ... corporate partner, and a $5,000 budget. My team’s problem was to figure out ... Transportation to my soccer teammate’s high school econ teacher."]user research

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023