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  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  -- not from classes or because I was forced to, but because it was fun and ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  want to also talk a little about my experience being Course 18 and how it ... subject of this blog post. It’s important to note that there are significant ... math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  Policy joins forces with Josh to bring us up to speed. They review ... . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to ... to wrap up.  At least when you take an exam you know that, for better or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter ... , you have them now and you still look everything up on Google. Recycling

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blended Learning at MIT benefits of technology in MIT classrooms

  

  Learning website here.  Fourteen years ago, MIT democratized secondary ... in an Institute-wide effort to translate traditional course offerings into an online learning platform, MITx. MITx allows educators to develop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things You Shouldn’t Do And something I did

  

  somebody to take over his job and while nobody permanent has been decided upon, Winnie has agreed to take over for now and help all of bloggers ... , wondering why spam was destroying our masterpieces and trying to figure out

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... : Too many to name... Here are a few: Seventh Samurai, Dr. Strangelove ... Married An Ax Murder, Love Jones, Dolomite. If you ever need to settle a bet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... grade because I very distinctly running up the road near my house to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  th left much to be desired. I will elaborate on the details of “much” once I finish therapy. *Recently, someone I was talking to managed to ... , vernacular magic. Anyway, back to how much my week sucked. Three weeks, 13

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting ... anticipated it being difficult to get back into the swing of things but was ... Equations. It's too early to tell exactly how manageable this class will be

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was ... pointed MIT out to us, so I knew it was close, but I didn’t know it was that

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  may take us up to two more weeks for your materials to show up on the ... deadline, you are fine for EA. Storm: Due to the devastating snowstorm that ... still require you to submit the application by the normal deadline, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  're forced to collaborate with others and kind of work through this hardship ... can link it rather than having to figure out how to word it every single ... at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  'm forced to spend it in a way that I feel is meaningful. This includes ... I really was not going to post. There were several excuses I was making to myself as to why I was not going to post: I am not even that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  whose stories really changed my life. Every so often I google them to see ... about EA decisions being released next week. And I wanted to check in ... doesn’t guarantee you success, or even lead you to success

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... out to be my favorite class that term (the others were 8.04 8.044 18

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  to my own, Air Force members who show me how it’s possible to lead with ... Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... the big dreams that brought you to campus in the first place. Leader

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018