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  Walter Lewin ESG Lecture Oh, you know, only one of the most famous Physics Professors of all time

  

  Earlier this year I had the pleasure to meet Walter Lewin at an ESG Friday Luncheon. A close friend of ESG's 8.012/8.022 Professor Paola, he ... lucky enough to video tape. Covering topics from why he majored in physics

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MITwitter That's possible the worst portmanteau I've ever made.

  

  title, this has something to do with twitter. It is in fact a historic day ... opposed to all things apple, I've shared my dislike and disinterest in the internet phenomena known as twitter. But if you were to go here, you'd see

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  of classes with friends and dorm-mates. When it comes time to do ... Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  velvet cookie dough instead of making pies. I took a trip to Target, which had the added bonus of being a great excuse to procrastinate studying ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  -edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San ... not expect the catastrophe to develop so quickly. Because of this, the ... best efforts to beat the arrival of my train in Emeryville. They’ll be

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  amongst the stars a comic

  

  in NYC.  In an attempt to get back part of my soul after what ... , inspired me to draw the comic above. There are a lot of nebulous feelings I'm trying to define and process right now, but I don't feel like airing that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... , most of the times they were sold out in the store. I'm not sure where to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch this year’s 2.s009 final presentations designing kindness during a time of covid

  

  webcast at s009kindness.com, where you will also be able to ask questions of ... This is a very brief blog post to remind you —  as our announcement ... Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering) and one of the most famous courses at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... processor can take care of--for instance, dialogue does not need to be

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  , there are lots of things about the transition to grown up life and this other side of MIT that I would love to share with you guys (and feel free ... Tube channel - on everything from squid skin with a mind of its own to growing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Road Again Adventures in Texas!

  

  to Boston. A whirlwind trip, no doubt! Hopefully I'll see some of you ... tweeting" (although isn't all tweeting sort of live by nature?) of my ... account - feel free to follow me @MikeyMIT. So far it's been mostly text

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  , impatient for decisions, reluctant to do my other apps, doubtful of my ... chance. And now I'm wondering - To all of you who just clicked 'submit' on ... asking others for advice. It got to the point where I nearly had my writing

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update We plan to release Early Action decisions on Monday, 12/15.

  

  We plan to post Early Action admissions decisions online at 9pm EST ... applicants an email on how to access the decisions online; I will also post a copy of that email here. We'll have more details on the decisions in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Live from Florida Hello from Tampa, Florida!

  

  in Florida. Last night began the first of four presentations with my colleagues from Princeton, Swarthmore, and Wellesley. (Check out the rest of ... we got from the audience were some of the most thoughtful I've heard in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I ... decided to raise Liv as if Todd Rundgren were her father. Since her mother was having a lengthy relationship with Todd Rundgren around the time of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K last Saturday. Results here. I very intelligently chose to walk across the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Small Get-together Friday An informal reception for HMMT participants and others visiting Boston on Friday.

  

  (and hence won't be able to informally meet with folks otherwise or attend HMMT), I want to be able to take some time to see the MIT Class of ... me as well. For those of you in from out of town, I'll be happy to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  11,231 Applications

  

  to find room for all of the many, many terrific applicants. But it also ... Today's issue of MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, accurately ... (this number will probably change slightly by the time we get to selection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  weekend, I hope to answer the backlog of questions, talk a bit about the waitlist, and more. Again, congratulations to the Class of 2009! ... I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student Center to play some Dance Dance Revolution (DDR 4th Mix Plus, in this case ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004