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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

   have all made appearances during my time at MIT because of some sort of collaboration with people here. It's neat-o business, folks. And as of last Monday, we got to add Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder and current CEO of Facebook

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  Tomorrow, I will roll out of bed, eat some oatmeal, and put on a pair ... , brought by hundreds of yellow schoolbuses, will gather on a field near the ... Boston Marathon as a member of Team MR8, the charity team that runs on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Flux and Flow Thermodynamics as therapeutic analogy; or, the longest way I've ever said, "I'm still figuring things…

  

  lesson numerous times. On top of that, I've felt as if my post ... lieu of moving on from it. When I sensed the beginning of a spiral of ... health after lots of research, a stint in therapy to maintain my self

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  (VIDEO) THINGS on campus, from MITx to TAing the ESG educational video ... to tap into the knowledge/expertise/enthusiasm of MIT students and make ... working on various projects involving educational/digital media literacy

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  particularly painful rejection myself, Brené Brown’s words on the power of ... I have a lot of feelings. It doesn’t take much to make me cry ... gets me every single time, and I regularly tear up watching World of

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  , Facebooked, Slacked, or spoken on the phone with many members of the Class of ... he'd taken me on a tour of their office while I was in the Bay Area ... / Theses on the Philosophy of History Sam texted me recently that he has made

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  3 weeks in northern Italy Global Teaching Labs and MISTI-Italy

  

  that in Santa Fe. In Santa Fe I slept on a beautiful couch carved out of wood, and I woke up every morning to the voices of my family and the ... full of ceramic tiles and the wind on the water again. The sound of and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Diversity or Merit? false questions, false answers

  

  prepared. Based on a bevy of data in your application - your scores, your ... . On our What To Do In High School page, we say this of our application ... . It's an issue at the intersection of other excellent posts that folks

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  Hello beautiful people. I know that one of my previous entries hinted at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Making Connections we live in a society (affectionate)

  

  A few hours ago, I was on my way to my room in the[annotation note="EC has two buildings; one is to the west of the other"]west parallel[/annotation]of ... ) rainy today, instead of going outside to get from one parallel to the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  one. one of my coworkers, john, lives on a boat. last sunday, father ... a wind indicator on the top of the boat?" asked joseph. "yes," said ... goes on the scale of days, affected by the events in someone's life. the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-Med @ MIT The title says it all.

  

  pre-med students here offer a unique perspective on medicine: that of a ... /engineering school and has the reputation of being incredibly difficult. This isn't the first time one of the bloggers has written about being pre-med at MIT, but

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  bombed a couple of tests, watched a beautiful sunrise on nights when I ... know how to do, instead of focusing on the ones you know you can’t do ... Most of my conversations back home seem to begin with this question

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to date at an American college Things we never talk about

  

  , on the blogs. I am not used to being open about this kind of ... relationships”: a non-exclusive relationship based on multiple interactions of a ... point is the thesis of "hookups", which occur on a spectrum. First, the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How to use these blogs Scattered thoughts on the information age, plus some bonus snark.

  

  ago about all of the machine shops on campus? That was done by request ... So I was looking through some old notes that I was working on for ... came across a collection of things that I had written which can most

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  xylophone, we decoded the combination lock and moved on to the rest of the ... around the room and use the clues written on the walls, but instead of ... of us got to solidify our legacy by writing our names in Sharpies on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Things (That MIT Made) LISTS

  

  Happy Friday! Yes, that is an Oberlin College-produced parody of ... the site and my brain is a bit melty. So, as a bit of a break, in the spirit (but without the inspiration) of Ben's big lists, and following up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ) Lawyer; former staff to House of Representatives Committee on Science (Georgetown JD) "I work on quantitative stock trading out of my living room ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  rolling waves of panic I had on the flight back to Boston). Thinking about ... was going on. She sympathized with how the sense of time gets completely ... around on-campus before rushing back to my dorm in the midst of a panic

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull ... idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015