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  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  't afraid to speak up, as evidenced by the huge hubbub that sparked from ... My employer recently sent me to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women ... .  It was a great opportunity to see some wonderful speakers, connect with

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  tunnel. The reason all of these things need to be done by next Thursday is ... I am taking 5 minutes out of my life just to let you all know why I don't exist. I don't exist, because this is my to-do list: No joke

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  semester 4, take 2 positivity edition!

  

  . But I've been trying to examine what actually makes me happy, and how I ... . Mostly, I'm glad to be here, and to be free to make mistakes and learn from ... 't intend to make this connection when I started writing!), I'm iterating and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 23, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  . After stopping by a bakery to buy some roll cake (for breakfast the next ... Currently listening to Currently with: Raymond, Lucy, and Shannia ... course, Thanksgiving weekend. I have...a lot to be thankful for. Mom, if

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  't really my goal. All I wanted was to make somebody on the judges' panel ... Author's note: The original title was going to be "I DUPED THE COOP!" but I decided that was too much. I still wanted to mention it though

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  cracking each card. I estimated that I could expect to make about $600 a day. That's not bad. But to be honest, I make more as a consultant, and I find ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  make 3D models. Basically, we modeled a cafe on AutoCAD and sent it to a ... ’s pretty irrational - computers are meant to be used, aren’t they. But still ... digital age that I can't take an architecture class without having to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  . Ask yourself questions -- enough to make yourself see your own personal ... 's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that ... impossible to satisfy everyone, you know? For example, if you really wanted to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  technological edge that you need to really make progress." These days, he said ... genetics. So now, he said, it makes more sense to locate brain science in a ... Friday, MIT plans to dedicate what it bills as the largest collection of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  to take the next bus with Gloria who also didn’t make it with the first ... weekend to see the latest updates!). Background Slack Messages Earlier ... begin. (Also deep thanks to Kano for the planning and brilliant execution

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  wanted to write it anyway, so here I am. I considered just not writing this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I felt it would be disingenuous to present the fall semester through only

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  art or just the societal pressure to make small talk in quiet rooms, the ... Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had ... Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... seems to have grown each year. This year, we had around 70 signups and we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Two opportunities for high school students And you don't have to live near Cambridge, MA this time!

  

  Hi prospective students! I’m writing to tell you about two events ... interested students were disappointed that they did not live close enough to Cambridge to participate. This time around, however, SWE is holding an

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  , and with my second season of reading applications behind me, its time to start getting to know all of the wonderful people I have been able to read about over the past several months! Kris was kind enough to let me guest

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain ... alert. After opening the email, what I began to read about seemed like a ... by the Dupont-MIT Alliance, and Dupont recently donated another $25

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  compensate. On your way to your destination you will pass by many people ... , we were assigned to read Raymond Queneau's classic Exercises in Style ... style, ranging from "Hesitation" to "Tactile" to "Spoonerisms". We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] I was once told, "If you come into MIT wanting to do the same thing as when you leave without even ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  out of your control, so it doesn’t make sense to put too much weight on ... personal expression and craft? people often say you can’t/shouldn’t try to ... people in these areas reconcile “not being able to change other people

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022