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  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  . At MIT in general, and this semester specifically, you have all been ... for them. Congratulations to the Class of 2018. May the wind be ever at ... ; The commencement stage at dawn   flowers of MIT  

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  female figure in my life and still (even being at MIT!) the smartest person ... little more... Fenty For at least a week or two I had been sleeping on the ... surprise you. There are (unfortunately) some in STEM fields, even at MIT, who

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

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  ; Reasons not go: The event starts at 8am. My sleep schedule has been ... would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... their Master's at MIT. Sumeet Shah from Brand Foundry Ventures, an early

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  impossible to ever find and to get into, being at the end of a winding series ... device (lab computer, phone, athena cluster), or at events, or reading, or studying from hard copies, or doing psets, or tutoring, or at meetings, or

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I ... ' essays. Don’t read the anthology. It won’t help at all. Find a voice that ... ? Minimalist applicants are at an advantage. Don’t over-describe. That shiny

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  floor where I live. On this day let us take a look at the dynamic ... generally social and likes to follow people around and meow at them, but if ... to work and just sits on your keyboard and stares at you, which I would

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  think about the boy I met earlier this week, at the light-rail station. I ... at the weed culture in Colorado. I said I thought stoners were boring ... textbooks until I graduate. But mostly, I’m just eager to go read, up at the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  flattened into words on a screen. and then i threw myself at the in-class problems, because i didn’t want to start crying at one in the afternoon for ... a few flat words on a screen. marvel at this fact. and then talk to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  've pretty much given up on the first one at this point (I am a shameless comic ... ? Sunnyvale, CA What are you doing this summer? Working at HP researching ... a nutshell? I'm working as a counsellor at a math summer program

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  !” – in the past month, but as a result, my desk at home has suffered. It ... /really cool grown-ups. As a part of their “residency,” they put on events at ... at life outside of MIT every now and then. In any case, go Cards! And

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  the greatest things about being at MIT. We learn a lot about how to use ... rate, we are no longer alive. If our blood pressure is at a certain level ... .2-7.4…we die. Is it really coincidental that a neutral pH is at 7? Is it just

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  REAL people who, at the end of the day, are still just your [somewhat ... people at least 20 years older than I am. Ryan is no philosophical sage, so ... shoots me a peace sign, telling me again to “chillax” and do things “one at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  street sweeping, knowing which spots will be free at which hours, and ... , that is, or can't find it -- you have to pay it in person, at an office ... out for the day or had left early (at noon!). What's that? You'll just

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it ... everything we planned. Now I have to confess, when we stopped at "Great Cats ... make a compelling case for themselves. You can look at pictures, but you

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

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  : Great Question “Anonymous Applicant #3’! At MIT, we practice something ... helpful, but only to a degree. Class Rank means different things at ... at MIT have not even attended formal high school. (We have a wonderful

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  claimed off of MIT's reuse mailing list at 2 AM one night. One of the GRT's in Random Hall bought a small nation's GDP-worth of cereal at Star ... and 69 cents-per-pound price tag at your nearest grocery store. Cereal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , at noon. I'll pack up my belongings and move away from Boston forever ... to try to figure out what's at the edge of the universe. Is there a ... 't really hiring, at least not college grads, so I've got to whip out that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  below, I love watching food-related shows, even though I hardly cook at ... of Cakes - Food Network (I think if I ever met Duff or anyone at Charm ... single episode of all of these shows (though you'd probably be surprised at

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  are at least two reasons behind this, one that's my choosing and the ... little saying "Getting an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... have an evening class at the same time! As such, I am now scheduled to

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  semester at MIT, on the academic side of things, I took four science classes ... fraternity, so I spent a lot of time at our house, getting to know my brothers ... to be blogging about your life at MIT - and for that to happen, you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008