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  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  about 3 million different things that spray water around in a myriad of ... with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of ... those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... million in prizes. The Intel ISEF is the premier global science competition ... their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  89 million people were affected, between 195,000 ad 403,000 people were ... ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I ... in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  line of millions of people (ok, more like hundreds) and I realized I ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  . The results are stunning and unexpected, with millions of people ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice and experiences to share with all of you. So, lets get started ... , faculty, new and returning students are all excited by the start of the new

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  the basics of cybersecurity, and losing out on millions of dollars by ... , and the rise of LLMs like the one writing this blog post, the years 2011 ... I took the path of least cranial activity and applied to physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  line at about 10:40 a.m., there were about 20 people ahead of me. Ten minutes later, there were hundreds of people behind me. Apparently, I got ... last row of reserved seating. We did, however, throw a few jealous looks

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard ... Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  this post is a little delayed, for which I plead CPW Like millions of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar ... will be posting their experiences soon. But a number of alum bloggers did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  Keuhne (professional golfer who attended the University of Texas) Right now, many of you have probably procrastinated on making one of (what you ... -seeded basketball team. You're probably receiving pressure and advice from tons of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to take the Bebras Computing Challenge this fall an international introduction to computational thinking

  

  than 30 countries and includes hundreds of thousands of student ... by Eljakim Schrijvers, the lead coach of the Dutch team at the International Olympiad in Informatics, and Rob Kolstad, the former lead coach of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  .2 million people watched that landing, 1000 of whom were standing in Times ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the Wandering Cricket Night Market after a thunderstorm. Now, after dozens of hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  Life is busy at MIT. Most of the time, our schedules and motivation ... . And amidst all of this constant work and running around, we see people ... lives. We see that one kid that sits behind us in lecture. And to all of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... one of our biggest lecture halls. (Many of the larger freshman classes ... 'm special: I run around making plans and getting excited about a million

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ecosystems And Web Sites A science question & general check-in.

  

  This is really, really cool. (Link stolen shamelessly from Riley.) Except tell me, you science experts - how does an ecosystem with "fantastic biodiversity" survive for five million years without any direct contact with the

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  several centuries, orders of magnitude faster than the typical two million ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014