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• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... to be sad for?) Today at the end of 7.27 lecture, one of the students ... had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  ’m referring to the Boston Marathon (won by Kenyan runner Geoffrey Mutai in ... , although it was quite clear they couldn’t make the food fast enough to keep ... managed to get a shot of the frenzy over the final few paces. Now, I’m not

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  to attend the 9 am option for my physics lectures – which was ... , that’s only 0.3 miles… BUT STILL"]from New Vassar to the physics building ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  worth at least 18,000 words so let's get started right away no time to ... star when we're trying to get home. The hangar is the big thing that ... what do I do? I work on a brand new satellite mission planned for launch

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 2 A recap, with pictures.

  

  Google Maps for an hour or so. Met up with Lorelle and headed to the BSU ... . Went back to my office for the first time in 2 days; checked email. Akash ... for dinner. From there I headed to the Mr/Miss MIT pageant in time to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  my first task was to get ice cream with my advisor, her colleagues, and their interns. We went to New City Creamery. I got something chocolatey ... questions about grad school, I wolfed down ice cream, struggling to get as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  seem more than just a little strange to my New England peers. For example ... was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... juggling act feels. I also remember wondering how on earth I was going to get

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... up? We wouldn’t want him to be overwhelmed by a new environment.” She ... I would like to preface this by saying if you haven't read Vincent

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  closest my team will ever get to a cash prize is the 27 days we spent ... get to sit in the same room as the real winners and eat free pizza ... vacation to New Hampshire with the freshmen of Conner 3. We journey deep into

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  In our last post, we mentioned that we were next going to blog about ... it is *top secret* stuff for now. So, look out for that post around mid-December. Yesterday, we thought to ourselves, “so what should we blog about now

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  psychiatrist staring at me in disbelief and telling me to get new priorities as I ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little particle ping-ponging inside of a box. I also want to get out of this box

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  new Ultra Fast Walking Form that tires you out and makes your joints ... one of the best ways to enjoy it. if your fast walking procedure ... , but also to prevent accidents - i injured my foot last february by

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  you to great outcomes that you otherwise would never experience. for instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers ... -romantic relationships as well) fast-forward to a few weeks ago when, in several

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... the statements of this comparator to their opposites, we achieve a new ... k to be 40 (this works out well for mathematical reasons, but many

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  , my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a ... months, as I tried my hardest to ignore it. By the middle of December, I started getting interview invites from a handful of the places I applied to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Room Where It Happens my two year tale of student governance, up until the bitter end

  

  New York for the summer, and so completely shocked by the initial news ... undermining any chance for a new community to succeed.”   Yet, once again ... presidents aren’t just figureheads given arbitrary choices by administrators to

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • July 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  for twelve weeks and I didn't get to touch a kitchen this summer, I ran ... in my browser to do just that, I was seized by the sudden necessity to ... somewhere first for it to run on!" But since I didn't want to run a server off

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... application to Google, Microsoft and Facebook, all which have freshman ... !) Applying for an internship is a challenge- actually, applying to anything in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... right). We in admissions are all proud to work for such an inspirational ... hired by MIT's admissions office in 1979 to help recruit more women, then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  . Unfortunately, by the time I get there it's pretty late, and (probably due to the ... inconvenience. By about 11:30pm, I finally get to the other hotel, check in, and ... :30am. I begin my drive to Ann Arbor to meet up with a friend for lunch

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008