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  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing ... are linguisticsy, like chomsky or a book on acoustic analysis i ... several weeks ago, slowly adding to it by browsing bookstores on my birthday

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Food No Context blogging no context

  

  10:00AM bottle of soylent on the go for breakfast.   12:59PM free lunch after accidentally walking into a Joi Ito (Director of the MIT Media Lab) talk at the Martin Trust Center.   1:08PM our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  (where the doors are just buttons and switches on this circuit board

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from prospective applicants about what essay questions will be on our application ... have anyways), and focus more on making sure your essays authentically

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  -aerospace-engineering-major-boyfriend-now-aerospace-engineer-husband has been a frequent character on the blogs for the past decade, so I ... ’s a bit of a Star Wars nut, and recently, he’s been on a quest to build ... model of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and landing it on a mini-barge in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  Many people applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. We have placed a small number of students on the waitlist. If you would like to be considered for the waitlist, or you want to

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  may take on a full-time research project. But for a lot of students ... entrepreneurs. It’s a 2 ½ week long, full-time workshop that touches on everything ... on…which in some ways was the coolest part of the program. Prof

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  my courses at MIT than I have on all of my biology classes I’ve ever ... Linear Algebra, and, at the very last minute, added a Media Lab seminar on ... again (it’s becoming a theme). I also gave up on 24.09 and my political

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  effect on my health. Specifically, I was curious about fat, which I ... . Over the summer I read everything I could get my hands on about fat and ... if you like pizza (and salad (and salad on your pizza (and other carbs

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... flew across the country for California where I am currently lying on a ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things

  

  's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this ... , anyone can get in on the action by going to these public lectures that are ... Transfer and Chocolate." One lovely October day, Jasmine and I hopped on the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 9, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  organizations on the West Coast: Boeing, Blue Origin, JPL, SpaceX, and Northrop ... Yard. We passed around an aluminum wheel identical to the ones on ... . On the way, we passed both the Space Needle and the Hollywood sign, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It's been a couple weeks, hasn't it? Now that I'm back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs from this past semester (the MITx supplemental video-making one), I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  into the future and a look at what you might be working on if you go to ... ] as part of your protocol? Presenter: Yea, that was a bullet on my last ... presentation that you have heard of (if not see Kirsten's amazing blog on it here

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious

  

  - on graph paper!

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one ... opportunity to go on that trip, and to help make connections and friendships ... business class tickets for employees who are going on company business trips

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  They Call Me Yankee The stars at night are big and bright - deep in the heart of Texas!

  

  here in Texas - people up north are yankees, and people who live on the ... and helpful, and some employees have even invited us to hang out on the ... calendar on, and I like solving problems and organizing things around the R

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 6, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  annual winter skills program put on by the MIT Outing Club.  It's been one ... of connection between us and nature.” - Patagonia, on alpine sports ... serious disease: Signs of Winter School addiction: (1) on Wednesdays at 11

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  playing on the upper levels. The crowd exploded into cheers and applauses ... , each charged with making a new product on a budget of $6500 and a 3-month ... . Plus, cyclists have to be focused at all times, eyes on the road (so

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013