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  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... shaping up nicely (sorry, I didn't have a camera with me). And across Main

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  Unfortunately I don't think I will be talking about the duality ... maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But this is a post ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  some reason, I've always been fascinated with schedules, calendars ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  I've missed mystery hunt every year so far. Freshman year I found ... moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to convey a few revelations I’ve had recently. This was adapted from an essay

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Building a Robot in 3 Days FIRST X MIT Edition

  

  that fifth graders don’t get to do robotics,” I argued. “What makes the sixth graders so much smarter?”  Yes, I know it’s a little over the top but I had recently heard the news that while my middle school was

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 25, 2026
• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  [annotation note="By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could ... from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much fruit."]study break held by our GRA,[/annotation] I thought, "oh, maybe I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  and masha[/caption] this surprised me; i was under the impression i am listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower ... . jenny and i are really hitting that 2000+ mark huh[/caption] i'm not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  The new baby bloggers were introduced about a month ago, but I have ... daughter, and as far as I know, she’s the first of Blogger Generation 2.0. When I got engaged to her dad in Killian Court the summer after senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Earlier this week I purchased a present for a friend. This friend loves wooden puzzles, and so I went with a wooden puzzle box: a box ... I felt like it needed something more. So I walked down the street and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year in Review blogs, bhangra, and a baby monkey

  

  I love the holiday season, but not for its parties and food, its celebration and decorations, or its gift-giving and well wishing. I love it more ... one to begin. I prefer the days right after the holidays, taking

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  Aye, I'm back with more architecture adventures. I feel like all I ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it literally consumes my life. I complain sometimes - okay a lot - but deep

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Events

  How to MC Hammer AKA embarrassing yourself for charity

  

  challenges of varying degrees--I can proudly say I've already seen a concert in Boston (#37), but I have yet to earn my pirate's license (#64). I recently ... --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 History & Culture

  My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing

  

  FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty ... about my bike accident. In it, I talked about how my internal dialogue ... my crash and how that might have affected the fact that I escaped

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  full day on Saturday while surveying the yard in anticipation, I said to ... MIT.” “We are?! Why is that?” “Because MIT is having a party and I ... on the job, I attended the opening party for the big 150th celebration

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... stacked alongside smoking test tubes. I was sipping a drink and taking it all in when I looked over at another large silver tray arranged with

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  form of flu, most likely H1N1. This is what I look like today. Wonderful. I suppose it was only a matter of time, but now I'm running a fever of 101, my stomach is hating me, and I keep getting chills. MIT Medical

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009