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  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I'm going to have to make this quick today, since I have to study for ... 'm having to study quite a bit because I haven't learned anything about plants ... be possible for me to have four free hours per day. This is a pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.

  

  I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging ... invited readers to decide which college the character Alex should attend

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Events

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

  

  my neck to see the TV. After a brief introduction, Lahiri began by ... MIT) that ends at 6:30 pm. I knew I wasn’t likely to get a good ... forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84 ... obsessively checking the weather app to make sure what I’m wearing will be ... well). That may also very well translate to me carrying around a sweater

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... high school. I went to an IB school, so I had to write a 4,000 word ... happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... , a school reputed to have plenty of geeks to spare. Ankur, an alumnus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... financial engineering. "Our overall goal at Sloan is to spur innovation by ... this one with you: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:25:08 -0500 To: suma

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... 18.02, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024, or 18.02A. If you want to review, you ... classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  with three people. I volunteered to organize and compile it by 3 PM today ... . Please be patient a little bit longer. We hope to send you our acceptance ... First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  : Roll with the A Dogs The people of A invited prefrosh to meet residents ... Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... sources tell me that D residents have a similar vibe to B and F, but that

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for a whole day until he flew down to New York City to appear on The

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  , I had a gorgeous five-story house to live in. For three, I gained 43 ... , upperclassmen, fellow 17'ers, and new members. I wanted to make sure everyone was ... because for a moment I had almost began to take it all for granted. Wow

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  laughing maniacally. Another lady comes up to the counter with a bag. "42 ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was ... else is also hoping will get bitten by a snake on this plane, is sitting

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Guests on The Colbert Report All the MIT guests Stephen Colbert has had on his show.

  

  ) sent out an email with a link to a retweet by @cmsw_mit of a tweet by @MITListCenter of a link to an article on SPECTRVM which linked to Stephen ... SPECTRVM is a newsletter distributed without charge to friends and supporters

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  was pitched to me as a "cute place with baklava pancakes that have a ... , which were both delicious. According to my sister and a few other East ... I've never had Uyghur cuisine, so this was a great restaurant to order

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  walked to the other side of main campus to go to a class. The lecture hall ... Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  , compared with 22% who choose to have an interview. The reason for this is a ... better matches for MIT, making them more likely to be admitted? Or do we ... I almost forgot: for you regular action folks, the deadline to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are ... . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  't make you learn material any better.  Turning in a pset 24 hours late ... you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015