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  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  , after getting to a stopping point on a project at noon, I decided what I ... and listening to one of my favorite programs on public radio and the ... Self. I was engrossed listening to Ms. Turkle as she described the need

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  when I need to get a solid amount of work done, even though it usually ... student-type things (going to classes, sleeping very little, forgetting to wipe the crusted drool off my face before going to classes) and doing me

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  'm doing lately, and how MIT has continued to shape me post-graduation. Since ... 't get IAP off), I will organize my entry more than I ever have before ... blogging was not always this fancy -- I put my Course 14 skills to good use

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  Office: My friend Feldman '11 walked me to The East Campus, where I was ... us banded together and decided on our goals: to have as much fun as physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  guys will get to see it. I assure you that the real thing was much better ... MIT was packed to capacity with students eager to hear six MIT ... unique is that the professors use their own field of expertise to support

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... fall semester, my natural, MIT-conditioned response is to rattle off the ... what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... reimburse us for taking a faculty member out to dinner, since they want to encourage student-faculty interaction.) My friend Varsha '07 and I decided to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  -absorbed individuals that are too busy plotting their next breakthrough to pay any attention to their undergraduate students. While I have never encountered such ... with him today and asked him what it was like to receive such a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  class. This is due to a few reasons: Firstly, I have never had a semester at MIT where I didn’t want to be taking the classes I was taking. This is a somewhat privileged position to be in (and given some of those

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  into the room at all. So this year I was determined to get the beach ... things I might want to be when I grow up? Well, I think "interior decorator" is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... opportunity to get to know fellow GEL students as well! GEL Year Two ... ! After getting to know our mentors the day before, the GEL students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  you get to know the individual contexts of thousands of intl. apps? May ... can press hope to get to university in U.S.The list you have supplied ... from a good university to fulfill my quest for knowledge and get a good

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  look. The street I walked with my friends to get home every day after ... disliked the game, I was still forced to come to training every week, I'd get dragged to watching matches I wasn't interested in, and I'd get stern talks

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright, Subpoenas, and You." I laughed. Of course they'd have to remind MIT students about this, the tech center of the world was likely to have tons of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  ="116802" /] 10:00 - I BlueBike over to MIT Campus As MIT students, we get a ... and came back to get a masters, continuing his pursuits with underwater ... in the program! I did not get to go on the trip [😔] but this

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  be able to get a UROP?” Thankfully, there is already an excellent guide to getting your first UROP that I unfortunately overlooked my first time around: https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how_to_get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

  prepare my kid to get into MIT" was (mostly) "don't try." Many of Raising ... applying to college. Do homeschoolers have a harder time getting into MIT? If ... around trying to get into MIT or Harvard or Stanford or any other super

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  need to get better at conclusions"]that's it.[/annotation] Asia ’21 ... .” Okay, it’s actually supposed to say “one week ago” but it definitely wasn’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  , but boy does MIT know how to throw a party - I'm told the weekend was a $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016