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  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  start! And if you do know a lot about MIT, I think McGreggor will share a ... person about what it's like to be a part of MIT. But even MIT hasn ... , or hold a big meeting in every city. And not every student interested

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2019!

  

  become a Plant Dad (tm) and am growing tomatoes in my office window The ... your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and ... ; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) A ten year ... classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth. MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in ... autonomy; the blogs are a specific example of this general case. The mission of the blogs is to allow our bloggers to communicate what being a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Blogographical Biography ...although whatever 'blogographical' means, I somehow doubt it applies to a blog containing graphs.

  

  optimization. I live in East Campus with a ginger cat named Reese, who takes his REM a lot more seriously than I do. Sometimes, he relinquishes his ... were: the process by which I knit a replica of the spawn of Cthulhu

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  challenging courseload and doing a zillion extracurriculars at once and ... I look pretty much the same as I do now, which pretty much ensures ... to get a driver's permit a few weeks ago, and the lady said, "You have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  one could do yoga holding a pair of weights, if the routine was too easy ... doing this in a yoga class; on my knees (the big toe on my left foot is ... , and do bicep curls. Then what I can only describe as a tricep curl. Too

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A CPW Challenge I hope Chris Peterson doesn't fire me for too many prefrosh stealing his nametag...

  

  include my oh-so-awesome CPW event? Oh right, I'm a blogger. So here it is ... , see, and do! So, if you're coming to CPW this weekend, this is my challenge to you: Eat free food. Find a hack somewhere on campus Build

  • by Kate R. '14
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  who score 6's and 7's on their A-levels are (respectively) 94 and 93 ... have studied a foreign language... the only languages I studied in high ... Kenya - so will you consider swahili as being a foreign language?" We don

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  topic (patience with the mail) this week. Here's a sampling: Daniel at ... for your PATIENCE throughout the month of January. Please do not contact ... everything updated. We're having what might turn out to be a record year so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  year's non-freshmen do it?" This question has a few parts, so I ... move from a dorm to an FSILG can just do so as long as the FSILG has a ... . Timur Sahin asks, "Forget admissions, housing, et al. Where do you see

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  , or whatever. what kind of a world do i live in, where i feel like i have to do work on a sick day? ... , and mucus discharged from my faucet of a nose. unsurprising, given what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Everyone at MIT should take this class. How often do you get to design toys in class?

  

  What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that ... course they'll in, they'll hedge a little; they might say "6, or 2, or ... , gotten some lab experience at UC Davis trying to develop a fungal

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  obscene hours of the morning to attend a 2 hour long double lecture. And you get to do this every day. You get to do one double-pset and a lab each ... 're an aero/astro major at MIT you, too, will take a (24-unit) class called

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  I listen to a lot of audiobooks. In 2023, I listened to 28.6 days worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and sometimes even while doing psets. It’s something I’ve been doing since middle

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  ’t really want to do my psets. And that’s okay, because I have a natural ... noticed a renewed interest in dressing nicely, in doing my makeup before I ... doing enough. In that vein, there's a lot more I could write, but the sun

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ?" "On a picnic. Do you want to come?" "...Where?" "Killian Court. We have ... , but how do you measure, measure a year?*). The beginning of my senior ... Monday was a student holiday, which means that while my friends at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Tale of 8 Instagrams Low resolution, high flavor

  

  do important stuff like attending a graduate school fair, picking up ... Once upon a time, I developed an Instagramming problem and started to ... retreated, and I woke up to sunshine and a gentle old man painting the Boston

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  implore, “isn’t that a bad word? Why do you want to use that word?" And my ... I don’t watch much TV anymore and I’m a little behind when it comes ... conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  project of a reasonable scope for an undergrad to be doing; no, seriously, you could probably make a thesis out of what you want to do," and then I ... a few lasers for dinner today, things will be better? No? [annotation

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022