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  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  company, get married with 2.3 children and get a house without a white ... design has always interested me - whenever Apple came out with a new product, my favorite part was the product design videos they released with

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  -picking note sessions. Maybe one day I’ll share the actual content with you, but ... , Mom came home and held out a pillowcase. It was light blue with hot air ... a tech startup with a pretty amazing founder/CEO named Hardi Meybaum

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  of the project with some amazingly driven and hardworking individuals ... a member of tissue culture team, has helped me so much with catching up with the team’s progress (since I came back from England after the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a ... faced with this kind of problem: we improvised. My program is usually two ... . Civic works with communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  biases along with Daniel Kahneman) asked 24 of their colleagues ... professors at each school to find out which ones I might want to work with, but I hadn't visited them or anything (with the obvious exception of

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  /UPPER BODY STRENGTH!) I also don't have the greatest track record with climbing ... encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... conversation with Chris. 2. Chris D., a staff member of the wall and fellow

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  .06 instead of 7.05. Oops. I retreated with my freshly free hour and a bagel ... the piano practice rooms, with big desks and a huge window looking out ... up doing with my life. 18.03: Differential Equations I no

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  after a while, you even start to identify with it. When I told my dad how ... , with small reminders of things that happened during the first two years ... Jobs. In the beaver's right hand is a candle with a screw jutting out

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  (with its own serious Internet addiction problem to tackle), but it is also a country with such distinct and concentrated culture that upon ... a Korean bathhouse. And it is my encounter with the jimjilbang that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh ... dispense with these hipster pretenses. Shedding argyle sweater vest, false ... scheduled for the remainder of the day: playing chess with pieces made out of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  of you out there will have to be content with hearing about my fun ... . But skiing at Whistler with my family and eating endless 12 course Chinese dinners with my relatives for a week was great! Still, nothing

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  over with - pushing me officially past the halfway point at MIT. (AHHH ... students with talented young students in Korea who already have some ... through with it. The first phase of doubt was simply pain. (But I didn

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and ... that person with the drug-dealing rodent-faced roommate who embezzled ... children as a hobby, and subsequently became mortified about living with our

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  . My interaction with Prof. Silbey was in Spring 2010, when I took 20 ... , in my book) that could get away with using Comic Sans (the other being ... with your students. I learned a lot about thermodynamics, too. (And not

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  Western Massachusetts, along with wide swaths of Vermont, New Hampshire, New ... for themselves at this time. And our best thoughts and wishes are with ... , because they haven't been able to work on them with the power out. While I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior

  

  happen with frosh, questions were asked, and as is wont to happen with ... have bridged the transition with a reasonably low rate of psychotic ... constantly travel around and make plans with people instead of retreating into

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  with a bolded list! Past Living Situation(s): I was born in Ethiopia ... blog posts about it(each one of those words is a link) along with this ... /maybe/possibly change in the future. With as many exciting majors as MIT offers, I'm not

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  non-profit organization that we partner with to help identify, recruit ... table chatting with Mikey, McGreggor, and Maura (MIT admissions officers ... -answering machine! (Not to be confused with a "question answering machine", which

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  So you want to be a student-athlete? Finding the balance

  

  , biking, icing, or showering). A lot of time. Combining this schedule with a ... /fitness room and various varsity locker rooms. Frequently I have trouble with the laundry system, but other than that I'm really pleased with the facilities

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  I just returned from a week's "vacation" with family and friends. I ... - but only because, as is so often the case with vacations, I return from ... your college essays. I just finished working with the MITES and E2 kids

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011