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  5n, n=1

  

  Arizona Diamondbacks-Washington Nationals baseball game at Bank One Ballpark ... Cruise, a reunion dinner at Baker House (my old dorm), a "Young Alumni Networking Brunch," and, perhaps the best of them all, Tech Night at the Pops

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning ... , presented the work at a recent American Astronomical Society meeting, where it ... of media, from USA Today to CNN and space.com. Full article at http

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  This past September, I started my master’s of engineering. At MIT ... . Instead, I live in an apartment with a roommate who works full-time at a ... . I’m only taking one class. At MIT, MEngs are capped at twenty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  .600[/annotation] exam last week. At risk of sounding dramatic, I don't even need to ... . I'm mad at myself -- I'm at risk of failing a math class, and there ... excelling at math. I'm mad at MIT: I'm taking 102 units in an attempt to start

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  super fun and hilarious -- and at the very least, you have to admit that ... comments below each bingo are from that blogger. Peruse at your leisure ... the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Three Tales of Junior Year Accidental Harvard Class, UROPs, Experimenting in College

  

  (that’s 46.5% of the total class load!). The ones at MIT were: 17 ... loved was SOC-STD 98LH Education and American society at Harvard (note the ... were shocked I could be a non-technical major at MIT (pro-tip: great

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  triangular "bookcases," at once industrial, contemporary, and abstract ... to have seen previous operas, including Carmen at the Metropolitan Opera in New York with my family and La Bohème at the Boston Opera

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I found myself, along with 15 groggy teammates and five coaches, at Logan ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  each one of you possesses a talent that will make you stars at wherever you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... a steep rock face at the back of the temple. The rock face was full of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Short, Sweet, and to the Point: MIT in five senses or less (Guest Entry) Hear, See, Touch, Smell, and Taste MIT

  

  While at MIT CPW, I had the wonderful opportunity to sample all sorts of ... smelling at MIT? Well, you probably think he’d make some pathetic ... right. I happened to be staying at the ridiculously awesome Theta Delta

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super ... chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... bad at statistics doesn't mean I'll accept that as an excuse from you as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I ... doctor took one look at me and diagnosed me with [annotation note="This isn ... best idea I’ve had at MIT"]I even went to all my classes on Tuesday

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been ... the categories at each qualiflyer. Distance and hangtime are measured by ... finalists earn a spot in the Global Finals at Hanger-7, in Salzburg, Austria

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... variety of events at each dorm was completely overwhelming, so I started ... -1556001363.mp4"][/video] Thursday [Ankita] I arrived at CPW around 10:30 and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  is on Wednesday. At Seattle, we're crashing at the Phi Kappa Sigma ... brothers had previously stayed at Phi Pools while he interned at Microsoft ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... didn’t shake out that way. “Come on, at least tell me you presented at a conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  —they radiate heavy grad student energy. I imagine hunched over adults sitting at ... biologists are usually pretty good at. It might be all the figures and ... the murky figures at the top which remind me of [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... inevitably there is at least one final post by a student in their final year at ... ’m taking two classes at Harvard this semester, and one of them is in an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016