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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  comedian. The room is so large that he has to have a microphone. By the end ... -Inspired Robotics is taught by Professor Sangbae Kim, who led the famous MIT Cheetah ... . Nothing humans have ever built is even close to the compact, efficient, yet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... "MIT student." You can laugh at me now. (the irony is I used to be quite ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  to a few times. It’s right on the water, the way *my* park was back in ... reasonable, I can order on my phone, all the food is vegetarian, and it’s one of the only nearby places open until 11:00 PM. This place is freakin

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Name in Flashing Lights Or maybe just mitadmissions.org

  

  - we want to hear you and hear what CPW is like for you and the friends you meet along the way - Timeliness - we don't want to post CPW entries ... Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  stories to tell on the road. Perhaps the best stories were provided by Prof ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... that I've returned from a long time away, I'm getting ready to head out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  the way back to my office, I spied another movie event poster that might appeal to some of you... The (27th annual!) LSC Sci-Fi Marathon is a ... Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  or did you contact the coach and (this is going to sound stupid) how ... visit a friend on Burton 5 would have to go all the way downstairs, across ... what to say). Have a lovely day. I really am sorry about the delay with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  While I may lack Ben's ability to speak to the heart, Matt's wisdom ... outcome to the decision you receive from MIT, and the odds are heavily ... . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  get more green-blue clothes but i somehow never find the time to go ... . and thanks for talking with me, by the way. of course. i'm you. i ... walked to campus today and let the mid-fall breeze bite at my face. i could

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  choose MIT, you get to take a gap year. You’ve been selling your soul to ... fight with my advisor to get this to go through. I was ready. This is ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  pretty awake. The issue is, last year I always set my alarm to about thirty ... of time to shower (hair soaking wet in the Boston winter), get dressed ... 'm going to change it to 6-9, which was the plan all along. Get Rid of Stuff

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  weeks. Python is easier to commit to since I'll be practicing it by ... track of time. I flew back home to Pennsylvania for the first time on ... 2023 to sneak up so quickly, and I opened my planner last Wednesday to

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... wiggling absorbs) is dictated by how heavy the ball is and how many springs ... . I guess the moral of this story is to trust everything on the internet

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... . Okay, so let's get right to the... MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Cook with your ... . While you're punching the cattle, Sam's Mom is punching the dough. You

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around ... between all the things I wanted to share about the last couple weeks. I ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and doing what you love (even if that takes getting hit by a truck to ... available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor was impossible to decline. Some of my colleagues are puzzled by this

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  my lab is coordinating a book group to get together and discuss it ... was by a company called Celera Genomics which wanted to patent/sell the ... sequence as much of the genome as possible before Celera could get to it. In

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  . This is understandable behavior. The past few months of your life were ... to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and ... of the biggest perks about getting accepted early is also getting on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009