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  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty-six back to back 4:45 miles.  How do they do it? The answer is that they ... aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  libraries in New England. Needless to say, this makes me really happy. ^_^ I ... being convinced that it was the most boring thing I've ever had to read ... family. "80s are good enough," my grandma once said to me in high school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Wangoballwime?” C'mon. You know what this entry is about. Check out the title!

  

  order to make a movie that was less than 6 hours long, but I thought they ... gesturing towards in this picture, hang on. We'll get to that. As I hope you ... , always willing to lend the proverbial cup of sugar to a neighbor, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  tables and are asked to solve problems too complicated for one. So, they ... with their friends. Goodman does the near impossible. He makes physics ... ," he said. "I began to see that there was an option that I had never

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  was this: people prefer to tell us about the things they think we ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  MIT evening is like, and I will not be able to tell. By “evening” I ... The 3D Lounge Experience For this part, I ask you to settle in a ... " by Sting (embedded below). Pretend the two photographs underneath are

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  Auditorium), there will be two prominent faculty keynote speakers. To highlight ... ; Cognitive Sciences faculty at MIT. Here's an official biography, followed by an official photograph, followed by the Q&A: Nancy Kanwisher is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  . By competitively, I mean, we were trying to see who would finish first ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to return to a topic over and over again. It is a form whose flexibility

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?

  

  Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... place of its kind trying to come at diagnosis, treatment and prevention of ... definitely worth a visit. It was established to connect the community in

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You know my name I should think of a clever title, but the song has been in my head…

  

  21 years old. Well, it's been a while. According to MT I started ... microfabricated fuel cell that could be used to power a cell phone. We filled Ruth's room with one thousand inflated balloons. My flight back to Harrisburg

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to ... at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... night's sleep in three days. DID YOU KNOW? Building 66, designed by MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years ago, of course) and it was sunny, warm, and breezy, so I decided to bike up Massachusetts Avenue to see just how far it goes into Boston. Turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  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 ... ) ******************************   REGISTER NOW! TO REGISTER, please send an email to taskforce

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

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  -- and he gave me two books to read at the beach next week. By my count, I ... crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... bit of a workaholic. But it was totally worth it. Why it rocks to go to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Warmth, Happiness, and Baked Goods (guest post) The best way to spend your time off.

  

  have time to stop and smell the roses. Personally, pollen makes me ... the secret recipe to get into MIT. Here it goes. Check off 4 out of 5 ... . Unfortunately, there is none. You can certainly can try to help your chances. You

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • July 25, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  is not to overwhelm you with knowledge and make you want to shout ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Nerd’s Paradise Phi is a "h" of a lot cooler than pi.

  

  using their talents and abilities to actually making a difference in the ... listen to an admissions presentation, take a campus tour, visit a lab, and talk to some of the current students. I was on campus for a grand total

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  back-to-back 3-hour neuroscience electives. I only needed to register for one… I chose both. It’s Week 5 now, and I've gotten used to taking the ... and Diseases of the Nervous System, 1-4pm—the final elective I need to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  responded to a Craigslist personal ad which bore only a single coy statement ... , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011