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  The Ides of March

  

  than for some young researcher to be tagged "the new Einstein," so don ... reception, I stood as a representative of the first university to get ... was David Bauer from New York City, who did a project on quantum dots

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You Can Save the World a post on Kanye West

  

  'm referencing this interview with Kanye West by BigBoyTV. In response to Big Boy ... money and means to do it, but you're in a box. You have enough affluence ... Being as musically obsessed as I am, it'd be impossible for me not to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  get a copy just by being there after bypassing people who'd been there ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with ... all the feeling there decided to concurrently take a few hours off to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  challenged ourselves to get full use of our all-access passes and ride every ... then sat by the edge of the Han River that flows through Seoul to eat our ... really wanted my presentation to be awesome. The next week passed by in a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... , many hours getting to know my maternal grandmother, but my grandfather ... conversation in Bangla. I’ll never get to know him. I periodically deeply regret

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  unfortunately accepting everyone just isn’t an option. If your decision was deferred, take solace in knowing that we will reconsider your application ... is by no means the end. Many MIT students have been deferred; you can

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Let me introduce myself. Alternatively titled: Whomst'd've?

  

  .01 felt like it was working to just solidify your knowledge of calculus ... whatever MIT has to throw at me. That last paragraph is supposedly my identity -- how I define myself to other people when they ask me who exactly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  to do well in Orgo? It's supposed to be the most basic of all my ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling ... differentiation that you had to learn, and there were so many things that didn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... . Unfortunately, the former is largely determined by your machine. In particular ... finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  both get so obsessed about things and immediately have to share it with ... very confident and has to act like a different person to try to get ... years at MIT, I gradually opened up to people, developed some new hobbies

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  real, and I found myself stopping to take pictures so much that by the ... spring in your step, you're about to buy lots of delicious food to cook ... I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tell Me Baby ..what's your story?

  

  week I went to two very incredible shows by two of my favorite bands (not ... me know you're out there - we're all really psyched to meet you! Just ... So you're admitted! You're a rockstar! So I'm bringing this post back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  more structurally unstable by the weight of the expectations attached to ... had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... repeated, immediately cursing my inability to keep nerdy observations to

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  help but be buoyed by the thought of meeting (or at least seeing) new ... events in past semesters have been tempered by the ongoing gloom of our ... ,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to ... (Nashua, NH). I used to think I was obsessed with things until I read her

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  screen to screen—it becomes difficult to process what you're experiencing ... immediately came to mind. the next step was figuring out how to get permission ... students could get a chance to see it. sadly, Karyn is taking down the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?

  

  Last night the MIT Sport Taekwondo Club sponsored a demonstration by ... decided to head down to the athletic center to check it out. I happened to be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  to me by my mom’s boss’s wife when we first moved to Chicago 16 years ... don't even have to leave your room to see people. This particular room ... Random Hall has six types of rooms, discernible by the last digit of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Maple Peach in Cambridge They have some weird fruit here

  

  frequent the blogs would love to stalk learn about one of the new bloggers ... school, I didn’t slow down. To keep mentally sharp, I applied to a new ... seconds, we’re going to start a brief presentation on the life of Kirsten

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  socks and gloves to the new shelter for every pair bought through our ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015