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  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  is connected in a web of yarn: a pretty cool visualization of how ... feels like you're in a hamster ball, surrounded by due dates ... to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  't read or sometimes even sleep without doing "errands around the web" every once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  applicant. I'll tell you right up front that I attribute my success in grad school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my ... scores 2001: Pretty good, but nothing really outstanding in the applicant

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  in area 05:32 AM CDT on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 By NICO PLACINO / The ... Technology in the fall. [LARA SOLT/DMN] Astronaut Buzz Aldrin did it in 1963, and former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did it in 1975

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  My time in Germany sadly came to an end two Sundays ago, when I ... a poverty action project sponsored by the Public Service Center (http://web ... too much involvement in the Philippines before, so it was our job to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  taxa currently fished by the mid-21st century (in the year 2048 ... decrease in biomass (living matter - like fish, shrimp, scallops, krill...etc.) in the Atlantic Ocean from 1900 to 1999. Just in 99 years... Source

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... participate in the January Scholars in France program, an incredible program for ... spend two weeks in Paris trying out all sorts of restaurants, visiting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... MIT’s campus in 1996 as an undergrad and has not ventured far from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  KNOW IF I GOT IN TO MIT!! MAYBE THEY SPONTANEOUSLY DECIDED TO POST THEIR ADMISSION DECISIONS AT 10:37 PM TODAY! URAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!" In doing so, you may ... detailing the future of fossil fuels in the United States. Although renewable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  website. Another reason was this magical thing called "Web 2.0." Web 2 ... of context and that prefrosh understand the background In the past I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  web space (anything with mit.edu in it), plus tons more stuff. Within IS ... Lots of students make money during term by working in their UROPs ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  returned to Next House last week in time for UPOP's week-long training ... it in another post, but for now, I wanted to give a small room tour! I live in room 251, which means I live on the second floor. More

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  "The Pretender" reached 6,000 views in less than a month and has been ... 've Learned", is quickly rising up in views to join its brothers with over 2,000 views in four days. It's funny, I had thought that to garner views, my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Science! at the BAH!Fest The science is a lie. The exclamation points are not.

  

  for the inevitable punch line. In which case I’d happily comply and say ... awkwardness, but still, to everyone’s chagrin, logically sound in a roundabout ... short) that was held Sunday night in Kresge auditorium was essentially one

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... was at South Station and hopped on Amtrak, arriving in the bustling metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  one with nothing making peace with unproductivity

  

  seven. in magic the gathering, a player's hand size is seven cards ... means "i shouldn't be procrastinating on my work". i mean it in the literal sense, where "being productive" means "producing things". in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  2024 in Review the things and stuff of 2024

  

  challenging. In 2024 I developed strength and self reliance. Obviously it ... that I am beyond grateful for. But in some of these lows, I grappled with ... successfully after a while, choose to take in the things that bring color to my

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  They say that today's graduation theme was "MIT students in service ... to cancel or postpone the elaborate shindig in Killian Court (check out ... squishing around in. I think that's the worst of it. The first thing I did

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor ... opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  all, the web address is displayed in a splashy font across the front of ... enough witty, engaging stories to constitute an entire entry, but in light ... kids (all of whom moved in on Sunday) has left me no time for the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007