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  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier ... norm. “Oh, just publish a few good papers in your field.”, I recall one

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  -optimal thing. But now I’m back, with a little less self promotion, to join in ... well. So sometimes I sit in a cubicle 9-5 by myself without speaking to ... ? A few things: 1. I get to learn about so many things everyday

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  transition temperatures that allow you to burn information onto a CD. In ... . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... in an equation, and you have to be on your toes. Something I like

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  ://web.mit.edu/mitir/! -- Forum on American Progress will be releasing a booklet, America in the ... that you can get a sneak preview: Next, a hearty round of congratulations is in order for Zahir Dossa, who I profiled in my first blog. A

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This…Is…BLODGEBALL! Everything and anything you ever wanted to know about us.

  

  -dot-com - I get to make silly videos, draw doodles, write my opinions and then ... -of-the-year blogger get-together be held at SkyZone (i.e. playing dodgeball on a court ... pool groups, I had my FlipCam a-rollin' to document that sometimes it

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave ... , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I ... picture. For a person who grew up in very arid parts of the west coast, I

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  . But more on those when we get closer to reg day. In other news, I ... for the Mac, I have come to love later versions of Safari in a way I ... get behind. I'm not in love, but I may have a little bit of a crush

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... students, when you made up your college list, did you apply to the most

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  , however, get a fairly decent photo of those people who decided to watch the ... So in case you didn't know, there's a eclipse going on. A total ... in the middle of writing a HASS paper on the Hippocratic Oath, so I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  to call the American Consulate in St. Petersburg to get connected to ... ://www.fontanka.ru/2012/07/04/070/ - it’s in English, which a bunch of the reporters ... ;congratulations on your debut!” There appears to be some sort of argument of

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  thousands on a wait list to get tickets. ~40,000 The number of people ... on this team had to lay in a freezing pool for hours in order to test ... user raising the height of their seat to eat in a restaurant). This was

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  have to nullify any part of any experience. just because i am calm in a ... will be okay. or in a different world, i would graduate from MIT and get ... roses. it waits for you to be eager, to let go of the meteor in your fist

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself ... studying. If you want to go out with your friends to dinner on a Friday night ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM ... that they are welcome. It is a great opportunity to meet new people and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  and time of this activity is registered to your computing account (or a ... respond to each notice individually or make a note of the other notices in ... should have prior to invoking these procedures, please include them in your

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  schools, but make sure you like ALL OF THEM. You don't want to get into a ... 't care at all. _____ I think if a fire marshal walked in we'd get in ... pass your class you just get a "P" on your report card. If you fail, it

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  biological engineering. To "prove your worth" to the department and earn a degree, you're asked to use your expertise to tackle a realistic, complex ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007