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  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  opportunities. For our seniors, it will be nice for many of them to have a job ... , are making their way to the largest of MIT's annual career fairs. Today, 300 companies are on campus trying to recruit MIT students to come work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  this one -- I don't have to use it, but it's nice on winter mornings. I ... in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... : they're not just for kindergarteners! I never used to take short naps

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century ... WILG (Womens' Independent Living Group) at the end of last semester. They ... halfway around the world to start my internship, and was housed at a really

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  Well, it has certainly been fun to write as an admissions blogger. I ... other direction (as in, now that I’m an alumna), it’s time for me to ... , using public transit, and eating better food. That’s not to say that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  on the highway, or the service road next to it. Particularly when I'm in the right lane on the highway, and it suddenly tells me to "turn ... because I'm in a spaghetti-type junction, so it starts going crazy trying to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bringing Down the (Lottery) House Like the movie '21,' but with scratch tickets.

  

  " and/or the book on which it was based, Ben Mezrich's "Bringing Down the ... tic-tac-toe lottery was seriously flawed. It took a few hours of ... defect in the game: The visible numbers turned out to reveal essential

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... they said that it wasn't in their department. Why can't Musical Theater ... ...we sing too! Personally, I find it necessary for musical-theater students to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  alone. It’s hard to value companionship until you’re starved of it, and ... brewing through the very air pockets of MIT, and I was able to breathe it in ... get used to. Eventually, I made the decision to attend MIT—how could I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give the girl what she wants Ruth '07 wants pictures, she can have them.

  

  some upper classmen to take whatever credit I could and run with it, so I did. So far I'm very happy with that decision, but it remains to be seen ... calculus you need to know for that class is integration by parts. Sure, it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  $. I.e., can you use integration (as opposed to discrete sums) to get rid ... proof! I can write it down completely from beginning to end. I can explain ... irks me about a proof. I can write it down from start to finish. Examine

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  can exploit to make higher and higher temperature superconductors. At ... current flowing through it. If non-superconducting material were used, it ... as it turns out is the perfect place to build top secret atomic weapons

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  , he asked how we felt about the pset. He wanted to know if it was too ... loved this class so so much and wanted to ~ memorialize it ~ in some kind ... phone useful or necessary so he didn't see the need to own one "I got

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... more crazy things? To put it another way: what was three months of not ... just play it by ear and do whatever you like for a while. So, to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  said that it’s not used for anything and it’s just too big to get out of ... obsession: of the kind of person who can be an astronomer, of marching to the ... discovery. Exaclty how this came to pass is a long story and I'll skip it here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  can't very well write about something I don't have access to. So I thought up a lie, and I thought it up quick. I walked over to the ... it'd be good to blog about it. We arrived at the Museum of Science and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  home, if you chose to use toilet paper rather than a bidet, you threw it ... to think of it, I can’t really distinguish much between Philippine ... steps down. It does mean that you can cross the road anytime you want to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  neighborhoods i know well enough that i can find my way home without google maps ... 'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... time, seattle feels like home by now -- i know the way to the churches i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  new paths. It’s horrifying sometimes to think how much knowledge there ... four academic years. I am grateful to MIT because it has shown me those ... . Knowing little has driven me to know more. The best I can do now is take

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  than it is because I'm not used to needing to try to sleep. Regardless, I ... [annotation note="I used Google sheets to record data and Python (numpy, pandas ... (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  , this is it, just watch, you'll see it happen." Sure enough, the lady to ... . We then proceeded to just spew all math onto it. When we started we had ... that it's impossible to study without getting distracted. When you've got

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008