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  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  (and all-around great guy) Paul ’12 to answer your questions. We’ll be ... so you can add your questions to the MIT Media Lab’s Backchannl feed ... /password we emailed to you). The video will come down soon after the CPW

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  working, then you're not, and then you have new ideas on which to work, and ... /individuality (presence/absence, travel/home) This semester, I moved to a new hall within ... and attempt to live by exclusively their own principles--maybe it's also

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and ... : encyclopedia dramatica So don't ever let anything get you down enough to stop ... cells, pushing gastronomy to new heights, designing bridges, or whatever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in which you get discounted meals but in order to break even, you need to eat ... tooling problem sets with your friend at Baker, you don't have to walk all

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cellular neurobiology The more syllables it has, the cooler it is

  

  you get your bachelor's degree, are you required to get you master's and ... talk to one another via chemical signals. One neuron gets excited, and ... molecule tag to other proteins, causing them to be degraded by the cell). So

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset button, drink tea, realign your chakra or your qi or whatever you want to ... your general state of being right now. Many of you are excited to get out

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  what i ate in a week* living the influencer life (clickbait included)

  

  ="confused? sorry to say that it doesn't really get better from here"]SO NOW YOU GUYS GET TO HEAR WHAT I'VE BEEN HAVING FOR DINNER RECENTLY AND WHAT I DO OVER ... i decided to be jobless and reward myself by just sitting there and

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  just felt drawn to the dorm. The next few rankings were taken up by dorms ... they would not be allowed to live in Senior House in the fall, as new ... to say some things. As a prefrosh, I wasn’t really sure what I wanted

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  ), which means you get to know your professors and the other students really ... .007.[/annotation] You’re not beholden to just one track though - I personally lie ... as early as sophomore year, allowing us to get both depth and breadth

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave MIT as happy, well-adjusted people. That's not to say that MIT is never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  caffeinated (can you tell?), ready to bare all. I’m going class by class, show ... : N/A   Ok. Now let’s get to the juicy stuff.   21W.755 ... your heart of gold Ian) and my professor eventually agreed to let me turn

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  Getting Home Instead of flying, my boyfriend Cory and I took a bus from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to ... high school, when I was lucky to be introduced to genomics by Dr

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  the fun part. But I seem to get into a build, fly, crash, repeat cycle ... ... although I don't know how much he'll be able to say -- he is funded by the ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... memory devices using two exciting new materials, only to discover that they ... and guidance, I was afraid of being seen as incompetent; unable to get

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  to New Hampshire to spend the holidays with my family. As I've posted ... . I'm going to head home and finish unpacking. By the end of the week I ... morning of the 17th, when it went live, I was on a plane to Denver with my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  board. The New House 3 president asked me where we were planning to get ... , and a bag of charcoal delivered, and have a barbecue ready to go by 5pm ... giddy, I sent a flurry of e-mails to New House exec, to New House as a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  Boston's 50+ universities get together. Also, I'll get to answering more of ... you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading applications as well as giving a presentation on MIT & admissions to a group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  the UK, by starting new Middle School teams - the idea is that these ... have to say "hey! you have to raise the money to send all your team ... been invited to send two representatives to New York for an all

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  could pitch their startups to the venture capitalists and get feedback on ... . and you have to cover your costs. This is opposed to a software startup ... ; Afterwards, we listened to some of the pitches from the audience, followed by

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  of which you get in May after you matriculate) and you're taken to your ... host your MIT mail. To do this you get to use a nifty little tool called ... lists on MIT's end has to happen) you'll start getting your MIT e-mail in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008