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  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  , just a moment, to think about how you will make the world suck a little ... do on a day to day basis: try to make the world suck a little less ... will be honored by speakers, recognized by faculty, and handed a well

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  myself for saying this when I have a kid later on, and have to make all ... how they compared to the previous states of our lives, and then ate a ... for now, since it'll probably change by tomorrow and we'll be back to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  ,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to ... people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a ... to rage, and in a place where most students are only here for four

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

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ...  into these problems only to find a nonresult is heartbreaking, to put it mildly ... . Monday morning, she wakes up at 9:51 A.M., a situation you might try to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... actually as exciting and mysterious as I tried to make the rest of this blog

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  There are few things that will make me wake up early in the morning ... Luckily, thanks to our friendly Senior Haus GRTs I was able to acquire number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  baseball to politics was like) "If you're making a true prediction, you ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  . I really want to make a second part for this post if I get the chance. ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... a thing. As much as it's inspiring to be around the latest research

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Two important reminders

  

  fast approaching. Today, Friday, April 29, is the regular deadline to ... for U.S. students to sign up. Remember that we require, in addition to the SAT or ACT, 3 SAT IIs: one in math, one in science, and a third SAT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  pretty black one, also for $8. I worried for a while that, unbeknownst to me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... to light a clove cigarette as Brian '08 looks on. It was a huge cake

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a rose is a rose is a rose ...is a rose

  

  So I haven’t blogged for a while - again... I’m not going to lie ... ’s like, most of it. Haven’t really gone to any big new events. Haven ... and hours to various software and machines and spray paint and glue

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 12, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly ... —and now you have to make it again. 7 more times. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. — there are

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  me to take a much-needed break from writing the J-Lab paper by playing ... A week ago today, I turned 20. It occurs to me that something weird ... . BIZARRE THINGS - AN OVERVIEW Bizarreness from 1 (a little peculiar) to 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  left the house, and then forgot to publish it. Well, here it is, a year ... -description attached to this post may have, despite my best efforts, given some of you a ... , came to perhaps a far-too-hasty conclusion: that's stupid. We stopped

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  pencil to work out more than a fifth of a problem. The grind started ... I was slowing down. I got distracted quite a bit, but still managed to ... to practice to even have a chance at passing, and that I was nowhere

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything I Miss and Don’t Miss About MIT Frolicking in nostalgia

  

  at La Verdes at 3 am and trying to make a pack of four Vienna Fingers ... , yet)--I'm just going to sit here a while and indulge in nostalgia ... pride that comes from knowing how to navigate the tunnels and a silent joy

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school ... class to make all eight plays and musicals held during my four years in ... conveniently located next to the floor closet. And Carenina '03, a senior

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to ... PhD. There’s a coda to that story. Over a decade ago (!), when I was an ... from being a postdoc to being a faculty member was the most abrupt of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  drawn to that organization because they have a child with Down Syndrome ... 's a gigantic statue of Jesus. After we returned to ground level and ate ... , we paused to examine a map -- and suddenly, a local starting yelling to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  sheets making door signs for the freshman  getting a LOT of cardboard and wood scraps for...reasons making a, well, some may call it, an intro video. Others, a cringy atrocity. Continue reading to decide

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018