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  Photophobic

  

  As I lay face down struggling to move in a puddle of 40 degree water ... strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  myself sick and just laid in bed the first two days of the hunt, feeling ... headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of Oust air sanitizer and a pack of Pringles chips. I worked on some puzzle

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  of 2014 will join them as alumni of the Institute. The 148th ... Storify, or via #MIT2014 on your social media system of choice. I must ... of 2014, including Anna, Emad, Kate, Natanya, and Tom, were the first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.

  

  of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical..." Hello readers. I've had an overwhelming number of requests for sample problems ... in 40 cloves of garlic, which incidentally take a surprisingly long

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  . These were Masters students working as part of their degree. Laura ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology ... National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  That’s where you’ll find me Where troubles melt like lemondrops, Away above the chimney tops... my CPW schedule.

  

  Appropriate Technology & Sustainable Development Fair, 6pm, Thursday CPW ... , 3:15pm-ish, Friday Presentation of New Undergraduate Curricula in ... :17pm-8:17pm, Saturday Battle of the Bands, Saturday night CPW

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  . Sure enough... Eng holds a bachelor of fine arts degree from Rhode ... coolest person of all time. No, really. So, I'm MIT's biggest fan of reality ... be of age. Then I just need to find a partner. I need somebody who can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  The next few months of my life are pretty well planned out. I'm going ... there. But mostly I'll be taking classes. Thesis Do a lot of work and ... Theater: Scenery The final component of my theater arts concentration. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.

  

  The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the biggest names in technology, student designers, innovators and entrepreneurs ... you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , because of the bend in the road, I hit it at about a 45 degree angle.   ... vehicle at a 45 degree relative to the forward motion of that vehicle, at ... As regular readers of this blog know I love to bike. It's my primary

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  : I participated in the Summer Science Institute at the University of ... . I have plenty of experience in other fields like biomedical ... where I feel like a lot of my STEM background amounted to nothing, since

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of ... to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1,485 students ... , with other people, next fall. Of the students to whom we do not offer ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2020 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  The Class of 2015 list of 101 things to do before you graduate has challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in ... --participating in a charity event. I got to display the full range of my talents (or

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  . You'll probably like her better but I hope you like me, too. Most of the ... there in a valley between the mountains, moved to the outskirts of DC when ... essay. I was admitted Early Action and withdrew most of my pending

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT's finals, hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court. Alerted to the hack by email and word of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009