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  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  ;   As I wrote when we admitted them: These 1419 students are truly ... -deserved diploma. https://youtu.be/AdwPeNsMmGM I helped select the Class of 2018 when I first returned to admissions from graduate school. It was a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  Columbus Day weekend was a four day weekend. I got an embarrassingly ... I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  The young kids are now the age I thought I’d be when I thought I’d be old (I’m not): the people running REX events are the people REX was for when I ran REX events (still not). This year I get to experience R

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  required readings, and I am enjoying a breezy carefree summer. I have sadly ... catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from friends, in the order they asked. Scretious Scretious is… I guess the best

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  This summer we (Matt, Kris, Chris, the ‘15s, and I), after a rigorous ... decisions were not easy. If you applied and didn’t make it this year, I highly recommend trying again next summer. I got in as a sophomore, the second time I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  Earlier today I read Michael Lewis' remarkable remarks at the ... path to his success: I was 28 years old. I had a career, a little fame, a ... telling me I was born to be a writer. This was absurd. Even I could see

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  I don’t know if your school does this, but MIT asks its students at ... make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if I’m giving feedback or just sending my opinions into a black box. We

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…

  

  . I know, I know, you're probably going crazy right now - real live ... 's almost like we're not crippled by our social awkwardness! I may be being a ... make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the ... actually like, so I've posted a few of the problems from my own problem sets (don't give me the answers! I haven't solved all of these yet!). 9.22 has

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  I'm definitely not going to be the only person to talk about this on ... many others for the past month. I'm not going to, nor would I like to, give one-sided, pathos-inspired opinions or rants about what I think and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  Meeting about Amazingly-small Rocks and Computers), and I get to be there ... lives. And then there's me! I don't have any of those kinds of ideas, but the good people running the meeting let me come along anyway. So now I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... means I finally finished my EMT training! Yay! Of course, I still have to ... . In other news, April and I got a futon, and now our room is supercool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  Last weekend, I took a short solo trip up to New York to see the Whitney Biennial! I’ve wanted to go to the Whitney Museum of American Art for years, ever since I learned that they’re host to (almost) all of the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  fun facts about random stuff sometimes i just like learning new things

  

  I’ve potatoed so much over the past few weeks of break — lounging in ... -quite-potato thing that I’ve been doing is trying to learn a lot of trivia — time on Protobowl, going down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and playing Sporcle quizzes. I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 5, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  meet the baby bloggers! (some of whom are older than me)

  

  to be so good, so so good, and I am very excited for you to get to read ... ! I know I am :D (I also want to thank, very much so, everyone who sent in an application this year. I'm very grateful that you shared your

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same agent, and I actually got to see her at Boston Book Festival last month ... containing a draft of [annotation note = "I meant to revise this throughout the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  Hello, everyone! It’s been a while since I last posted. Here are two ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5-ish classes (3 12-unit classes, a 9-unit, and a 6-unit). I think it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2017 FAQ You've got questions, I've got answers

  

  question is here! Q: What do I do next? A: First, you should create a My ... option. There is no need to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests in November or December. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 18, 2017