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  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  I blog a lot of retrospective trip reports (see, e.g., ISEF 2016, IOI ... I arrive somewhere to give a talk. Someone emailed to suggest this might be more useful, so I'm going to try to do it when I can. So: right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  you can do better," and then we worked together to come up with a plan ... that they do in fact believe I ought to become a professional astronomer ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  if you haven’t yet, you can take a look right here. MIT: Live the ... summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for ... communication strategy to showcase a constantly changing mix of videos -- from old

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  Note: I'll be doing a Q&A video with our very own Dean of ... -of-the-year blogger get-together be held at SkyZone (i.e. playing dodgeball on a court ... like a 4-year-old. I realize that I could write a whole entry on how our

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Celebrate the Good Times just another good reason to eat more cake

  

  hosted a graduation barbecue in the backyard for 40 people. We set up a big ... in a circle. We bought balloons, we bought beer and hard lemonade, we made cold salads, ordered cake and hung decorations. And at the end of a

  • by Kris Guay
  • June 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  a ton of movies, tv shows, and plays to fill my visual cortex! As such, here is a complete listing of all the moving picture shows I’ve viewed in ... House Lie to Me Bones Men of a Certain Age The Game Meet the Browns Numb3

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  walked around for three hours. Then, he was off to do soundchecks. A few ... , SM ’67, PhD ’70 about a blog entry he thought you might enjoy (via ... Black Eyed Peas played to a sold-out crowd at the TD Banknorth Garden. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  Remember that epic pset I told you about? Well, a few days after that ... right from freshman year, I came up with a plan to help me to stay calm and ward off test-taking anxiety. Quoting myself from a blog entry

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  wonder how I am getting paid to do this job... I should be paying them ... cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Name: Mollie Burgoon Hometown: Pickerington, Ohio (a two-horse town ... literature, which is way more fun than doing problem sets and taking tests. Susumu Tonegawa, who's a Nobel laureate, taught 9.301, and Rudolf Jaenisch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  In my past entry, a few students commented with the request that I post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... , so here's a revised version: Here goes: I'm Mitra, class of 2007

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  are lots of terrific applications! This will be a challenging year to choose from so many great applicants. A quick roundup of some interesting news... A nice article in today's New York Times science section: A

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  Massachusetts, do yourself a favor and have a fun, relaxing weekend... maybe check ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window ... that by leaving only a very small number of spaces for regular action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  Jane W asked, Matt, I have a question about CPW. Will we know who ... at this point, but it'd be nice to know. Here's the scoop: we spent a ... left before 8pm), but in the end, everyone was matched. You have a host

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BASICNESS!!!!! a major major update

  

  ! I do believe that a lot of people enjoy and are passionate about ... I come today as the bearer of some un-chic news. It is not only a frankly boring, overdone announcement, but a regression to my previous self

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  life doing stem, but it’s not so different from the realization i had a ... a few weeks ago someone wanted to shoot a music video and needed a few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  is everyone growing up without me? we're only getting older

  

  the grand scheme of things, it felt odd to see a couple that had met ... status for a truth is” and videos of ourselves upending a bucket of ice water over our heads. Now, in the past year, at least a dozen engagement

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  party was way cooler than we had anticipated. There was a live band doing ... begged for an encore. They clearly hadn't planned on doing one, but after a ... , a nap, more goodbyes, more packing -- and then suddenly I was turning

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022