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  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a roast chicken-mashed avocado-jicama sandwich and talking to my sister on ... : On MIT's responsibility to lead educational innovation: "Everyone wants

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  you working on? What does your startup do?" "We uh... .... we're a ... on a huge dream, the office moves very quickly and the app is scheduled ... been pretty much what I imagined. Everyone on our team is driven, great

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... reflect on things. If you do any sort of leadership training program, much ... around, I had mostly stabilized out, so it looked like things were on the

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  Hi Everyone, I was just taking a look at some of the questions on ... . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... year; it depends on how the pool looks. Basically, if you've been

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... true meaning of IHTFP. MIT can be a wonderful or awful place depending on ... different things on campus. But having been here for a year, you realize that

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  pizza!! On a different note, today is World Suicide Prevention Day ... spread additional awareness of what MIT offers to help people on this day ... ^3 is the support center on campus and if anyone ever feels ill or is

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  , and I'm actually on campus about as often as when I was still a student ... post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said ... nowadays. (Seriously – I don't know what goes on outside of my office. Is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  like an old crow looks back on the time that has flown by. On my first ... I am being kicked from the nest without being able to fly. I sit on ... hour super lectures on the biology of DNA and chemistry of petroleum. 7

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  on the old boat. In fact she was rather demanding, although I must say now I quite enjoy being able to stream BBC Radio to Zanzibar while on ... one day a wise old man, Stuartus Schmillius, came down from his home on

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  . There are lots of other things going on, but as far as structured ... that everyone can see units dramatically exploding on the map during the ... causation, then living on my hall would make you pretty good at web

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  into a routine at MIT. Psets due every week on Tuesday and Thursday ... always had time to do X and Y and then pile on Z. But, MIT has so many ... starting to feel the weight of college applications on their shoulders.] In

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... lived in the Phi Delt house on Bay State Road in Boston, near Kenmore ... writing "a final research paper on baseball's 1919 'Black Sox' scandal. He

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... about Kansas, I've heard it all before. No I don't live on a farm, no I ... Living Situation: Now on to fun stuff. I currently live in East Campus

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what ... :23pm on Thursday, May 12, my work at MIT was done. Like many other ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  many visitors on campus is as if about ten Campus Preview Weekends took ... . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... while building a paper bridge on time, within their materials budget, and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming ... make a few promises on future content. Quite a lot has been compressed ... all of this will be going up on the blogs quite soon, but first, a brief

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  concert on campus. This year's Spring Concert features Jason Derulo and ... to have the best taste in music on campus, they tend to get the best ... ) and used one to play half of a song on his bass." Apparently, the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  reply read, “Mmmm speghatuuuuuna :).” We don’t even agree on the spelling ... family calls them yadda-yaddees. Also, one time, while talking on live ... fridgey?!” Apparently my family relies on vague onomatopoeia and unique

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for ... on my UROP, which involves computing statistics about traffic in a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  this blog post on any given day will be floored that some MIT admissions ... on my floor opened their mouths…and proceeded to shout, really loudly ... mini-lesson on binary! We ended up finding plenty of candles, so the cake

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010