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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... extreme poverty up close. On a trip to Zambia, he became amazed at how clean ... exact problem on such a large scale." Then Matt Damon said, "And getting

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It ... their day into working on this project, then there was no doubt in my mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  ; Early Action applications should be submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on ... sent to MIT through Naviance, fax or mail will not appear as submitted on ... well aware that these are marked on different point scales. Remember

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  swooping down on campus with brightly-colored t-shirts, cheap plastic goodies ... whatever else you're working on. I don't know if GPA is that strong of a correlation for this - I've worked with people who did well on tests but not so

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  Artifact. It meets from 7-10PM on Wednesday nights. Right now, we have 18 ... Open Society Foundation. You may have seen his TED talk on the importance ... Consensus and Running Code" The Internet runs on code, but it also runs on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  . After all, when Tim Cook wants something on his desk in three hours ... sardonically put it, "Congratulations on being a professional workaholic." But ... .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  few weeks ago it looked nice... On Saturday there was significantly ... because sunlight shines on snow, it melts, and drips down, but by the time ... that Marco Antonio Solis? I went to a costume party on Halloween hosted

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  went on an expedition around MIT and into Boston:   Photo ... on this blog! Coming from Colorado, the weather itself actually wasn ... call it (my super Asian mother has always placed a high value on both qi

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  (both at MIT and on the road) and have been known to tear up a bit on ... probably also figured out that I love to give advice…both on what you should say on the application, but also how you should approach this whole

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  fantastic. But I left my kitty and went to the meetings, and I put on more ... , etc.). Then you go to the housemaster suite, located on the second floor ... Resident Tutors, that live on each hall) deserves to win the best costume

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  . Well, not really free time. I COULD be studying for my 8.02 exam on Monday morning but instead I'm catching on all of my blog post writing ... .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  infinite. That is, it’s on a whole new level of infinity, and this makes ... since Physics and Chemistry, my other two classes, rely heavily on math ... it later on here boosts the thrill, for I am a wanderer of the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  's going on?" Friend: "..." Me: "...is that a parade?" Friend: "..." Me ... boats are on the land, who's claiming the water? ...floating houses ... Needle is one of five, and together they play music based on how the people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Right back where we started from You can call me Dr. Mollie.

  

  ’s inevitable that you’ll have a lot to catch up on. I’ll start here: Hi, I ... Biomedical Sciences program, and my dissertation research was on two genes that ... defended my thesis on October 29, 2012, which you may recognize as the day

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  before summer’s end! After school let out, I hopped on a plane and flew ... luxury of seeing my cats or rolling around on the living room carpet (as I ... with friends I hadn’t seen for months and pig out on foods I had been

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  -minded noises in response while working on a short story that looked funnily ... make sure we were okay. We were stunned on two levels, first by the news ... , blood in patches on the floor. Phone calls kept coming in, friends and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  became more involved in promoting mental health and general health on ... , and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... , and I even got to read some of my own work on my friend Valentina C. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  that Wichita was dead-set on making sure flight was as difficult as ... morning (and praying that the wind will take the morning off). Corn Dog on the move. Corn Dog weighed in on the heavy side at 4.66 pounds empty

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  faster than all the other teams. It's about as hands-on as aerospace ... attendants standing next to patients on gurneys. The plane also has to be able to taxi for 40 feet on corrugated roofing. The theme is different every

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  ’s not you, it’s me. I’ve moved on. Don’t get me wrong though. We had our ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC ... come to an end. But let’s not dwell on the past. I’m with spring semester

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014