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• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  is barely holding together. As events unfolded a number of questions ... still support Black Lives Matter?" "Is there even really a race issue?" "Are you okay?" "What is the point? Nothing is going to change." "You

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  , where I’m living for the summer with my partner. Campus is 40 - 100 minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the ... bathroom included. Plus nothing beats coming home to someone. This is the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Haley C. ‘18 is a sophomore living in East Campus and studying Course ... enjoy it as well! ________________________ Hi, guys! My name is Haley ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  cool 8th grader (because don’t we all feel that way in 8th grade) that is ... lines of “Woahhhhh this school would be awesome for (some person that is ... place for me. They were like that best friend you have that is super

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  good morning, MIT Guest post by Piper L. '17

  

  All words beyond this introduction belong to Piper L. '17 (who is no ... they need to be heard by more people. Here is her original post. This ... is Piper. i live in East Campus, on second east. i’m a sophomore. i

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of ... was finally able to read over the past week, and propped on my legs is

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

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  resistivity when pressure is applied to them, our hope is to be able to use that ... ! (Maggie is currently studying abroad in Oxford.) Where are you right now ... school and it is one of the best videos of all time. It is tangentially

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, is a program for ... " and we would yell back "HEY UPOP." My group is the table in the ... about how the current program is inconsistent, and sometimes unfair

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  Getting from London (England) to Charlottesville (Virginia) is much ... through take-off, which is disappointing since I always enjoy take ... . "Did you feel that?" "Yes." "Is that…supposed to happen?" "I don't think

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  starts tomorrow. It is always wonderful to see so many parents on campus taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just ... campus. The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... new life. The whole time I waited for some sign. This is it, it was ... desperately I wanted to be here. This is MIT, and I am here. I taste the words

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the ... famed statistician Nate Silver is one of them. Nate Silver needs no ... 'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy named Joel Moore from Berkeley, and his talk is on "Topological Insulators ... ago was about them. This is what makes attending these colloquia

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  A lot of what an engineer does is makes things more efficient. As I ... optimizing its performance under certain conditions, which is what we did with ... , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  promise. There is, however, one analogy for which I cannot be completely credited. In fact, it's a rather well-known phrase here: MIT is like drinking ... month, 'tis true, but I can attest to the fact that it IS like drinking

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  availability on campus is a little scarce. Do you have time to cook, even if it ... eating whatever is quickly made?" 2) "If you (or anyone you know) has a ... seems like MIT students are overwhelmed because the workload is impossible

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... , here is an apology blog post, complete with interesting topic and ... starters, and for something MIT-related, let's talk about Splash. Splash is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me ... post is that Prof. Reddien allowed me to interview him the other day, and ... may already be here. All of you must know that being a student is pretty

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  've grown up on the stations in MA; my presets are ordered such that 104.1 is ... car here and keep it in the city. However, MIT parking is prohibitively expensive, with good reason: space is limited in the city, and MIT's priority

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the ... how short this is, the cab meter begins at - you guessed it - 710 yen ... ten thirty bus.. is this where it leaves??" "It left already." I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009