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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  to the world’s people, new communities, and new ways of thinking, so ... of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2014! We feel like we already know you, but feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates. FYI, the reply form and CPW portlet in My

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke ... your finger to a problem set and then fall asleep, sitting down, half an ... get to pass 6.002 for one. But you also get music. Sweet music. I was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50 ... comes into play -- if you don't adjust for inflation, these amounts sum to ... President Martin Tang GM '72 pledges to donate a generous sum of up to $25

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  about how campaigns like these honor MIT's commitment to diversity by ... really easy for her to get what she needed." Such a need has been around ... more," he said, "It's getting past the point of saying it's okay to be

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  free to close this tab or even turn off your computer and go take a walk ... Music to complement this post Tweet to complement this post Post (article) to complement this post On Wednesday, I went to classes, graded

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  working on your studio project; that was not an environment conducive to ... School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to share, and that is how I managed to feed myself for three months. You see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without ... week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a stressful situation like this: fight or flight. The alternative is to combine

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  want to get you in, have some explosions, show Hugh Jackman half ... credits if you happen to see it. Which isn't a bad idea; you get what you ... American History, colonists at Charleston did better by stealing the tea and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  me blog her results sometime. ;-) Anyway, I need to go get some things ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we were not able to offer admission, and I am feeling equally sad about that

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  to the assisted learning classes for disturbing the class by “asking ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get ... do not want to be this way, but I cannot help but be shaped by my

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  could get to me. And then, the will to live with more energy and self ... advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is definitely worth a read (and worth watching), but I wanted to highlight

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  need to get that happiness barometer up. The best part is walking the ... Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  too much on, worried about not getting the opportunity to rest enough ... -whose-number-I-don't-know by Killian. I can imagine taking my lunch outside, maybe walking to Starbucks to get coffee, and then sitting in the little courtyard behind the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Typical Friday Night Done with 6.046 exam, time to chill

  

  , several friends and I headed over to Harvard Square (about ten minutes away by bus) and went to L.A. Burdick, a store known for its delicious ... , post-6.046 exam. I know that before I came to MIT, my impression of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  wrong goal. It suggests that we "get over it" while the only goal you can really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... consciousness as much as this talk. Ed Linenthal has enabled many to understand

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  good, because I was starving. I decided to get adventurous, so I bought ... only fair. Plus, John '08 came by just as I was about to eat. I offered ... Today I took a nap fom 5 AM to 9 AM. Then I went to class. When I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lewis Music Library Tra la la

  

  things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2004