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  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  as various other folks from Cambridge/Boston and the rest of the world ... various communities of the world who need MIT and whose voices call out to ... will anyone have to stand up here and welcome the first female president

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  "]Josephson junctions[/annotation] are weird devices that require a whole page of quantum ... , and I hope we'll see even more of it in the other bloggers' posts this ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  do it now. I blocked the whole day out of my calendar and spent the ... whole days. That felt like a lot of time. But in the grand scheme of ... MIT was the first place you've found a home in, and so you're reluctant

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  cleats on feet, smile on face thoughts on injuries and spring season

  

  and practice for the first time in eight and a half months? You guessed ... -stop since first grade, and this has been the longest I’ve ever not played my ... the foot was a scary and mighty endeavor. The thought of running seemed

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  Mathematics pset, and that's when all hell breaks loose. Like the first week of ... calc ahead of time was a pretty big deal. The first day of calc was spent ... 's move on please.) The first day of physics was spent reveiwing derivatives

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  first full day off, which was on Tuesday. I took advantage of this day and ... miles and spent a full day in the pouring rain for the sake of getting a ... post. 1: I got pushed off the MIT Admissions front page. If you

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  and 8, of Simmons): "I'll be UROPing in Prof. Field's lab (in the ... cell images, identifying cells and automating the process of counting or ... 's Energy business. I'm a member of the Logistics and Trade Services team

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  , town halls where revolutionary meetings took place, and the first ... (!) and, of course, the campus-wide water fight. There was enough free food ... to enable and encourage the natural innovation and intelligence of its

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  of how the whole thing works. You look through the information ... Lottery and got to MIT with the intent of checking everywhere out, since I ... . (Just For Fun: Click on this link and scroll down to the picture of Senior

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  for a subtle blend of vodka, cabbage and Soviet style. B: Secondly the ... Soviet block and through political shifts and wild plains of the Ukraine ... southerly charge over the miles and miles of mountains to the coffee shops and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could ... whole and misrepresentative of what I really wanted to write about.   ... here, maybe you don't understand the amount of focus and time that takes

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising and freshman formalities

  

  out using data and careers information from the *French version* of the ... hall, and he hadn't been back in the building since the early 1970s. Talk ... to dinner following a "signing of the forms" (see above). We've had a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear High School Senior I know you're stalking us

  

  of the year and I wish you all the best, Fiona ... in-depth analysis on the tone of the main character’s dog’s whimper ... language. How else are you ever going to contribute to the conversation of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • November 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again ... The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera Of Mice and Men by ... read the first chapter of Fun Home at the start of my junior year of high

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  , founded the center and pioneered the field), so it's a bit of a home ... directions, and recovery bowl of chicken broth  An orderly roundabout in the ... , and a scale model of MIT and the Charles River made entirely of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only ... As much as I hate Twitter, I think I'm going to follow the trend of ... (?#@^&*!!!), all kinds of awesome and interesting things are going on

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  historians being dramatic. And the other part of me thought of this emperor ... fogged in the cold. I thought of my bookshelf at home, with this five-hundred-page ... read Miller, and the Iliad, and all of Plutarch’s witty histories. There

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  prospective grader...and I was hired! Woo! So, that's the first reason the Math ... itself ever could. I round the corner of the hallway and make it to my TA ... This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008