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  contact David Elwell, associate dean and director of the International ... email David Elwell, Associate Dean and Director of the International ... the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  First, an aside Today, Adam and I were on the subway heading to the ... , and I would have been focused on my grades to the neglect of my ... for me both in terms of the way I was taught to be a first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of Portland, Oregon, the whitest major metropolitan area in the country. And it ... exposed. For a moment, I was reminded of the giddiness of first love, how it

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  reading the rest of the email, and forwarded it to esp. it looked like the ... upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far ... hundreds of emails. and somehow, although it felt bad that the programs were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , and this awesome video of whale watches off the coast of Boston last ... CMS, and I introduced him to Scot Osterweil, Creative Director of the MIT Education Arcade and creator of the famous Zoombinis puzzle and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  friends who were in the area, like junwon and victor. for the first week of ... 's see, december. towards the end of the semester is the time when all the performance groups do their semester performances, and i don't go to a lot of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  community. I went home until the end of the semester and moved in mid-May, so I wasn't involved in the process of finding an apartment. I'm told ... evidence of mold? Do the bathroom fans and windows work? Are all the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  ): You'll say hi to the friendly receptionist and then sit down, in one of ... to see the hustle and bustle of MIT. Weekends are a special case, you ... parties and not a lot of homework-doing in the evening, so you will probably

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ye Olde Career Fair An MIT tradition...and a great opportunity for a discussion on leadership!

  

  When I was first applying for the GEL program, I heard a lot of ... of Communications and Outreach for the GEL Program."So what did I learn ... little hazy on the distinction of what makes an engineering leader, so at

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  , and thus saving the five instead of the one, saves five morally good ... independent of moral luck. Finally, and crucially, the maximum goodness ... up a third and popular variant of the life-rationing problem: The

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate and I each spent four hours writing three 12-bar arrangements of a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  time I arrived, and the wait time total - the amount of time that passes ... One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer ... first come first serve, meaning the earlier you get there, the better view

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  first mentioned this song in a blog post two years ago, and it's always been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  on the leading edge of a growing fashion trend. More and more ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... the first pieces I designed and thought, "Hey, if Jessica can do this, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  of the dark in the eye and paint them on our walls as warning signals ... could process and my eyes saw but didn’t really see. Even the sight of Van ... are as well. It is hard to not be aware of the news and of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  Parents always eagerly anticipate their child's first steps and cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a ... work in the Seung Lab at MIT to develop the mechanical design of an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  -fried broccoli flower, and the crunchiness of autumn tingles with the sound of ... first round of tests on the undumped-upon freshmen. It's been a rough week ... version of bowling in which the balls are actually test papers and the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  balancing work and fun because fun is the seasoning of life but needs to ... uncover the truth and beauty behind depriving ourselves of sleep to slog ... -nerds-turned-rappers soul-searching through the streets of NYC and complaining about their

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  , are sure of your classes, and hear which books the professor wants you ... to sell books. Ask around your dorm, spam the email lists, and you ... the book that you need, then you can get it off of Amazon.com. Worst

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  begin next Wednesday.  The Red Sox are in first place.  And MIT ... up the comments to your questions, and then tried to answer them (this is now much easier with the advent of threaded comments

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013