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  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil ... pointed at me: "yes! question?" Me: "You talked a lot about how the public ... was, and" - he glanced at me - "let me know if I have this wrong. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... .   It was Friday, October 25th. My family was coming at 10am. I knew ... , so I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 11. After throwing everything

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge, CPW, and YOU! A welcome from a couple of MIT Quest Scholars to our newly admitted Quest Scholars

  

  be a lesson to all of you – use your Google calendars!) and thus missed ... again and again was “The people.” Of course at that time, I had no idea ... about QuestBridge at MIT and I’ll tell you to talk to the Scholars who are

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • April 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  -n-tears work for my finals, left my dorm at 8:30 AM and returned at 3 AM daily ... me in terms of not traveling to NYC at all. That's saying a lot ... be in four classrooms at once Monday and Wednesdays from 1-3. he

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At ... through it okay, and emerged at 6AM Saturday morning (okay, the essay was a small number of hours late.... whoops) tired and ready for a break. At

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  find it peaceful to think like this at times. Growing up, I used to ... me at least, to think about the idea of this being a part of some story ... watched Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, [annotation note="after a brief

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  prediction when I got an email. I remember sitting at my desk in the Google ... research, from an organized beginning to a furious blur at the end. Step 1 ... . Journals (or at least this one) always want you to resubmit within four weeks

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  last first day of my undergraduate studies at MIT. It is the kind of ... , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive ... . 10:04 AM: I am at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Amherst Alley

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  air; you are at least 90% sure that nothing would happen. A google ... delicate and costly red glass ball at the end, and send it slowly shooting ... sides. The three of you spend the next half hour chipping at the parts of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  over and die. your grief at being neither splits you open. sometimes you ... through campus buildings at 3 a.m., passing through halls that are utterly devoid of people, because everyone's on break but you're still at MIT

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... ; Suddenly, I started having headaches that wouldn't go away. At first I ... hand at legislative drafting. For example, *Carpenter v. U.S., U.S. v

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

    Hi. Meet my Google Calendar, the metronome to which my life ... electronics printer, other things that are slipping my mind) and looked at the ... class registration at MIT goes like this: student spends December

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  a solar system, as an academic exercise. Meanwhile at home: Anyway. Being at MIT means quickly finding out that most people don't really know ... prepositions), and mixed with a few people that are really really good at doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  ‘now’. And at this moment, ‘moment’. My throat predicted that truly awful ... forms, a passport and a picture of my family that’s at least two years old ... genius afforded to Youtube’s most cringeworthy comments. At other times, we

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  , Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked ... which he uses legitimate, scientific tools and data to guess at impossible ... punch cards, how big would Google's data warehouse be?” “What would

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  air and remembers that I'm actually enrolled as a full-time student at ... unrelated to the institution you are working at. You can imagine that that ... ? There are many different kinds of fellowships, targeted at many different

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  -year-old brother play the saxophone. On January 2nd, I was sitting at ... wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... tech was going to be showcased at the Consumer Electronics Expo in Las

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  days of the week, we wake up at around 7 or 8 or 9, depending on what ... end of our BART trip, we get this beautiful view of the city at sunset ... at the scene. three It took us two hours to commute home, because the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating ... bottle at the water fountain by the elevator on 4W and then shove it in my ... walking at 9 and finish the marathon by 5, which requires me to walk at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... to give you a taste of the types of speakers at the program: Drew

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016