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  This story has to do with professor accessibility. And something awesome that I got in the mail.

  

  name of the sender; it was vaguely familiar, but I couldn’t place it. Mystified, I tore off the flap, and a brand new book slid out. I yelped ... read a very old, very tattered copy of it a couple weeks back, which a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  , entering MIT at the age of 15, and graduating at the top of his class ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently ... ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Save Point sleep wake hope

  

  than it should have, and it's taken on new shades of meaning over the ... , with new faces and new names as another class of freshmen arrives. I ... of the person I always wanted to be. At MIT, hundreds of miles from my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  times to several people separately, but at the end of the day it just ... school down the road at Hahvahd. That kind of thing happens a lot, too ... ’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
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  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  and the process of making new friends. I hated being confused over ... ’t edit the doc at all) into the log (with a value of zero for the number of ... days to find my total number of revisions by hour. I was surprised at how

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  answered that question at that time, but this is sort of a more extensive ... exciting, because it's so new. Last term there was a group of students trying ... As some of you probably know, MIT's motto is "Mens et manus", which

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Few Words

  

  it this far :) I can't wait to meet some of you at CPW! To those of ... I realize that some of you have been counting down to this day since ... action decisions came out last year, I was at a debate tournament, with no

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  señoritis navigating work/life balance - and spring break photos

  

  plenty of rigorous work. someone asked me if there would be at least a ... learned about work/life balance at MIT with the help of many wonderful ... was about work/life balance—is it stressful to balance everything at MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to get a UROP A lesson on stalking.

  

  undergrads UROP at some point. Most of the people I know currently UROP. While ... professor’s office number, and walked in. A couple of post-docs stared at me ... 'skills' section of my resume, so it doesn't look so empty?" Other Freshman

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 7, 2011
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  An MIT Underwear Exposé (and Sorting Hat) The coolest data you never wanted to have.

  

  A lot of socializing at MIT happens on the dorm mailing lists. One of ... , the kinds of emails sent within a dorm mailing list include, at the top ... connectors, funnels, and hairdryers. At the end of one IAP, from BMF and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  There are no imposters in the Class of 2018 Strength in networks

  

  The new MIT Class of 2018 Facebook group is a warm, fuzzy place ... of you. Is that weird?" (No, it's not weird!) and virtual group hugs ... why I was accepted." Of the 80-ish responses to the poll question "How

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  50 Things Advice for the class of 2010.

  

  for you; beginning with the launch of our new site in early September, I ... at any given moment. Way more than half of you will be in the bottom half of your class at some point in the next four years. Get used to it

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  of warnings can be found at this link, and here are some of MIT VPR ... , is very healthy--at least in college. Actually the extreme end of ... own goals. Good luck! At the end of the day, things will happen, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
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  Subtle Black MIT Traits A few things I have experienced as a black person at MIT

  

  experienced as a black person at MIT, and I put it in the form of the popular ... it can be like being a part of one of the smallest minority at MIT ...  think it is something you can without a doubt overcome, and at the end of

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  I am a PRO at stick figures. Just wanted to show you some of my ...   Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog ... following, I will talk about some of the things that "ART IS..." for me (or my

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  November 1st is my January 1st each november is a new direction

  

  that I had an extra import statement at the top of my main file which ... November 1st, amidst all the chaos and uncertainty of life, I have a new ... were afraid of the potential rejection, and I think that's really

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  and rebuild new ones. Money can't purge your fears out of you. That's a ... to cross a body of water without doing any work at all. There's no ... point of college: the assertion that, if you attend any college, you'll be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  No Chance Why "chance" sites like AdmissionSplash are Bad Things.

  

  to selective schools - or, at the very least, if you're thinking of ... Mashable is running a story today called New Facebook App Tells ... different social network sites, and been syndicated to CNN among a bunch of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 8, 2011
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  I’m back! (And what I carry on it) "You can tell a lot about a person by what they carry" - Atlas

  

  . There are tons of new professors. New shops in the student center. Online ... – it’s like a bizarro-version of the MIT I remember. There’s plenty new ... that with the incoming class of 2019, most of you have no idea who I am

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Boomeranging The day before classes start is Registration Day. It’s also the day we welcome readmitted…

  

  , acronyms). Later, at my dorm, a couple of my friends will squint at the ... among friends, much less at a table full of strangers. I always ask people ... of the returners at my table are forthcoming about why they left. Some

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 14, 2014