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  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.

  

  You know, I'm not a real admissions worker, but I bet they often get ... to say something like, "Oh, the campus is incredibly diverse but all ... absolute perfect answer to this question. My freshman year, I went to Sigma

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  to wander betwixt all the floors, get even more free food (with the ... side of Burton Conner, known as Conner 3, was fortunate enough to get ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  dtyd weekend all party, no planning (for once)

  

  final act of the CPW closing show, we had a lot to get through to make ... through [annotation note="the time each performer gets to stage + run ... "]DTYD[/annotation] LIV was on Sunday, so the days leading up to it were filled with events

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  process: the build challenge from early in the class to get students ... (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this ... . You can watch the full video here:     If you would like to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  HT@MIT: Cantab Lounge Poetry Slam An Amazing Show For A 10 Minute Walk And $3

  

  the National Poetry Slam! While it's generally difficult to get off campus during the week due to the general hustle and bussle of psets, I take every chance I can to drop by Central Square and listen to a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  We will not be taking anyone from the wait list in 2020 closing out the wait list for the Class of 2024

  

  patiently since Pi Day to tell them that, unfortunately, we will not be able to admit any students from our wait list this year. I am writing this blog post to announce that and explain why.  As you may know, the wait

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... couldn’t meet her, or get her to sign the two books that I brought along, or even get to sit inside of the lecture hall. There was also an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  have enough time to get to know everyone i wanted to even though i ... a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a ... added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  move on. The boxes on my to-do list are unchecked, but they will get done simply because they have to get done. And not having everything done ... understanding is simply something I will have to get used to because it will

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  helped them get to that stage. A perceived lack of gratitude is indicative ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... gratitude gets overlooked. There have been many moments where I felt

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  opportunities to get hands on rather than just brainstorm ideas. Fireflies, the ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  take advantage of every opportunity to get a full MIT experience. So ... On Friday morning, I walked into Lobby 7 to head up to the Edgerton ... embellished with a QR code. Now theoretically, if one were able to scan the code

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  wedding ring on his desk, trying to see for how long he can get it to spin ... price to pay to get to meet Lincoln, you know?   Also, the ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  Raymond and others to get through my coding assignments and I wonder if I ... As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag ... regret wash over me. New waves of kiddos are coming in to make MIT their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  getting stopped in the halls. It's awesome, but I'm starting to lose my ... least there's no more sleet. 6:05pm: I get a chance to upload some ... hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... is for getting students to go to Harvard's sports events. We had to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  (thing is true) but why? I go to MIT 100% (or so I've been told) I get these ... . I've been known to say things like "Well, I'm fairly sure that I have ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  flight to los angeles to [annotation note="dope, right??? i get so many ... wandering around LA [annotation note="groceries, getting a bus card, etc."] completing various errands [/annotation]. i've never been to LA, so i formed a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019