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  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  thought I would write this blog post about some of the ways my perspective has changed in the past year. I think that I’ve done a lot of emotional ... of the material was really interesting. I don’t think I acknowledged

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Patriots’ Day Rejuvenated by a Reenactment

  

  suggested biking to see the Battle of Lexington, I was THRILLED! We woke at ... steady myself. We traded off for the better vantage point a couple of times ... about the first time he was part of the reenactment, in 2001. He had never

  • by Kim D. '09
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fit or happiness made easy

  

  along with a big helping of the word "fit". At this point, it's a buzzword ... part of it to maintaining something you are not. The idea of fit is ... for those pieces of your current self and the pieces of who you want to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT ... . However, our team of Mechanical Engineers and I had the opportunity to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choice and the MIT lifestyle ...because "MIT" and "student life" aren't mutually exclusive.

  

  lot of my activities into a few days of the week, so I can enjoy my lazy ... AM, then I'm free for the rest of the day. Now, the last question ... involves goldfish, but for the life of me I have never been able to figure

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... growing up, but not one of them had ever been beautiful. Like the Aesop ... advancement of women, but not the advancement of femininity, and I would later

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters ... from the University of Waterloo, whose academic program alternates four ... hackathons -- video wall posts, and the 'like' button, to name a couple of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out, my teeth would chatter, and this dread of just wanting the panic to end ... the time senior year of high school rolled around that I wasn't looking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  *, she works part-time at the New England Aquarium. In lieu of an interview ... submission.** The director gave her the job instantly. *limnology: the study of ... a few of the animals that Nora has housed during her stay at MIT: Yep

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  suggestions are biased?More to the point of that pressing topic on some of your ... alone productive. The best thing you can do is take the weight of waiting ... taken earlier. So I'll try two approaches to make the point: one of them

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT students were taking out the Tesseract - a solar powered car that took third

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  You may know Conan O'Brien, host of the popular late night talk show ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be settled?) by the Writers Guild of America. Without writers, the show has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Amazon.com sold out of their entire stock of the Wii on the morning of November 19, 2006, in less than one minute. So Mitra ... Garten, the incomparable host of TV's Barefoot Contessa, was coming to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  breakfast for the rest of the floor on the first day of finals. Since we can ... ever seen at MIT. But after that? I'm at the start of a pretty big ... to say, was a little wistful. Like how Tim Gunn cries at the end of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some More Pi Day Facts and Advice You thought all that was over, didn't you?

  

  around my dormitory on pi day and filmed the residents of Simmons Hall spouting some bits of wisdom and occasional pi facts. I put together this ... you will all enjoy it! It is a bit belated, but all the footage was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  When I applied to MIT, I didn't consider whether the people of Boston would be as friendly as the people of Wisconsin. I probably wouldn't have ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... . Holy moly, I'm still reeling from the geniusness of this group. Now I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  '10 and Rich '10 Dima and Rich's room is located in the opening of the ... proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... ." Rich's side of the room, opposite the feng shui tea shelf, contains his

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  people are really interested in the experience of female students at MIT. I ... severalfold -- 1. The School of Science report. Several years ago, female faculty in the School of Science reported that they were discriminated

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006