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  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  :                                                                         October 17, 2014 7:30am- Normally I wouldn't get up this early, but today I'm supposed to meet up and get some coffee with my mentee before her first class. I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  looked around the crowd, and my hand went up first. He made eye contact and ... on the project. When a newspaper calls me up and asks for comments, I ... public the most, and I call up colleagues if I don't know much about it. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  always there to clear up our many, many, misconceptions of all things ... opened up the application the night before it was due and hacked out a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  . After a night’s rest, the team woke up and cooked breakfast, then ... for the day’s riding. For me, the first day consisted of a ride up ... Engineering) at 340 watts, followed by a series of intervals up Montezuma grade

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... Boathouse for the past four years.  And this means that clothes just piled up

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  rooms have can be chalked up. Another way to dress up plain white walls if ... up the supports, as well as how high you want the bed to be. Not to ... them up, use them to build, loft beds (or in my case a desk), and really

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Lobby 7 Gotta love it

  

  climb the iconic front steps and glance up at William Barton Rogers’ name – MIT’s founder – chiseled high up in the building’s façade.  

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Angry Birds Fly at MIT Students construct trubuchets, catapults, and air cannons to take out the dastardly pigs on Killian…

  

  dressed up for the occasion The students have been working on their ... The weapons set up in Killian Court The "pigs" and their defenses A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Week(end) [Read: New York] Adventures Parts 2-4 I’ve affectionately named these adventures: #metroentertainment

  

  woke up to the second blizzard of the year (which conveniently arrived ... hours were the Jamaican Feast they cooked up and the sitcom I was ... was a double decker and not full so I got two seats up top all to myself

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • April 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Open Letter Employers love students with dorm desk experience.

  

  shifts. I have no problem waking up that early; it’s just… well… that ... ’t even go to the store to pick something up. I’ll admit I’m no less guilty

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 8, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my ... while I'm there and put up with my intense but baffling love of ... somehow she escapes. It wasn't long before we loaded up her station wagon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Story of a Lifestyle I'm going to kick you - No, for real

  

  '10 & Mary Hong '10 hold up the fruit of the club's months of hard work (Photo credit: Bobby Ren) To catch up: 1st quarter at MIT, I took P ... opportunity came on March 7. At 4 AM (yes, that is A.M.)– 2 busses pulled up at

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 30, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... waiting left! ‚ô• (P.S. Thank you, Kuljot '13, for helping me come up with

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  must be dying to hear what I've been up to. I expect the barrage of ... MASlab, and is one of the few MIT courses I've run up against so far that ... (up to?) 16 balls, red and yellow, on this field, and there are red and

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  to have achieved genius status. I've got a lot of ground to make up ... decent grades, I've been keeping up, and I've been having a good time. MIT

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  concert on Saturday night with Hanna '10 and Keira '12. And then I woke up ... exam since my first 5.12 test over two years ago, I stuck it up on my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  , some of what ends up being said is tongue-in-cheek, but the implications ... about that class anyway pfffff, well, that's up to you to decide. That ... your best foot forward and see how you measure up. Find out what works

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Freshman Application: Live on Monday The MIT Freshman Application will go live tomorrow (Monday) on MyMIT.

  

  contact your interviewer and set up an interview November 1: Deadline for ... interviewer and set up an interview January 1: Deadline for Regular Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  every moment of my life at MIT—that’s just setting myself up to be ... don’t want to. Picking up the hint, they quickly schedule a financial ... that night. All the people from the chat had decided to meet up at Anna

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going ... was intentionally getting up well before my classes started and the ... classic what-classes-am-I-taking-this-term post. I'm signed up for 66 units

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008