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  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  couldn’t escape it, you see. It was one of the General Institute ... had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps ... . One of the lifeguards noticed what was going on and offered to help out

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  heart of the Institute, stretching from Lobby 7 (west) through Buildings 3 ... words and abbreviations and numbers are part and parcel of our culture ... showcase this phenomenon of "speaking in MITese," because I personally feel

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a ... question repeatedly: after all, MIT is primarily a technology/engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
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  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  thought the process of applying to semi-elite institutions ended after ... wound up with 2 final offers at the end of it all. I actually applied to ... of job offers, but honestly, most people around me are in the same

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  ignore the paper for another 42 minutes and watch this week's episode of ... neurons. So that's my boring story of the week. If you want, you can ... -ultra-delayed blog post about the best part of MIT: WMBR 88.1 FM, the campus radio

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  . One of Larry’s hobbies, aside from cutting edge technology research and ... out of battery. Naturally, I decide to be the hero, and offer to tape my ... , debugging a server at my desk outside the office of the graduate student I was

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  simultaneously by offering: a wide variety of fresh and healthy produce, grocery ... institutional donors, but I'm told their goal is to cover 70% of their operating ... when I first moved here, the density of people and place was new and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
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  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  'm not far from the Institute, going home feels a bit like "breaking out of ... my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Great Wifi Outage of 2007 Burton-Conner's wifi went out two days ago; Evan will tell you more by the end…

  

  -renowned geneticist and the former director of the Whitehead Institute, as well as a ... days of yore, the internet outage hit the dorm like a tsunami - hysterical shrieks of people who were unable to submit HASS papers filled the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  talking; I never got another job offer, or any response to any of my (many ... , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... . Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a set of questions they

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the ... . And if you're interested in learning more about the technology of ... superhero fan, and I hadn't even heard of Iron Man until only recently

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  focus of attempting to gain admission to a specific institution or type of ... When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brief Wondrous Lives A little too much thinking brought to you by four in the morning.

  

  I've been doing a lot of thinking about lives lately, in multiple senses of the word. For one, my floor is playing Assassins, or ... person is left. This creates all sorts of interesting mind games in which

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 3, 2009
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  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  I've had all kinds of feelings about returning to MIT as staff a decade after I was a student here, but one of them is ✨delight✨ at seeing new generations of MIT students carry on traditions and make them their

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
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  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  In that moment, I felt that my conception of [Next House] finally ... filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... of my junior year, and I am twenty. There are so many stories I want

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  A lot of different people have been asking me about my prospective major. And for these gracious inquirers, I have a lot of different answers ... question. This place certainly has no shortage of learned

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
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  You Are Here a list of things i can't make myself do, and a few i can

  

  home in new york?"]clear as day,[/annotation] part of me still doesn ... the endless noise of constant motion that comes with living in a house of seven people. I read over the problems again, eyes moving to and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 19, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  -written puzzlehunts have stellar visual design, excellent use of technology, and a tight ... I've talked about Mystery Hunt at length, from the perspective of a participant, the perspective of a hunt runner, and the perspective of a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not quite 1,000 googol pages. All I can offer you by way of reconciliation is ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  every single cookie jar of majors that MIT has to offer in one way or ... necessarily go out of my way to pursue in my degree. This would be biomedical ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020