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  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  think back to the call I received from Steve Jobs on a Sunday morning in ... products, from my Macbook to my iPhone, are omnipresent in my life - Steve ... were a fish, he'd have provided much of the water in which I swim. When

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... classes to a timeline of their academic careers and get immediate feedback ... called “The iCampus Student Prize”. This blue piece of paper stapled to a

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  , visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... check now to make sure you can log in smoothly. If you need to reset your ... information in the near future. Okay! Those are the essentials. Try to take a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  . We’re all jealous. In addition to getting into dorms, your ID card is ... you do is get access to your dorm (New World Symphony, “Going Home ... could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  different dramatic aesthetics - crucial factors in a composer's approach to ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some France, some stay at home ... and some go to lab. After a brief search on

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  looking to take care of everything from your Google search results to your ... student, you sort of get used to being one of the youngest. Everyone else is either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are destined to do great things," a quote from Joe Paterno, sewn in white into a ... to them in a measured, respectful way, without drawing weird and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  just gotten to campus and was enjoying getting swept up in the excitement ... were given a room in Maseeh as an option, in addition to Saxon Court, a ... , expressed their interest in moving to BC, and talked to us for quite a bit of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  summer, where she gets to "work from home" one day a week and sit in her ... getting a PhD by offering a gift to his committee beforehand--while most of ... can see exactly what our soldiers actually get to eat out in the desert

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  finish a few pages for Friday, along with studying a bit for my (last ... desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of ... the GIRs your first year. If it suits you, it's certainly beneficial to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  children? If not (or if you are a male), do you expect your spouse to take ... across a front page article titled, "Many Women at Elite Colleges Set ... she speaks with aspires to be a lawyer and almost all plan to stop

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  weren't on Facebook. In retrospect, it was a primitive and dim space to ... love MIT, you may not want MIT to be where your friends are, jumping in ... himself over to your house and would let himself in and begin eating your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  about being in a country where nobody has electricity or regular access to ... It's hard to know exactly how I'm feeling on our last night here in Haiti, but I'll do my best to try to summarize. We just got back from a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... exams in order to get a grade I could achieve with a nontrivial amount of ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  have already sent in a form detailing how much of that you plan to earn ... sending water + people goo down a water slide at high speed), you get ... chlorine in the water might have something to do with it. Now, I know Mollie

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  cheaper for me to go to MIT than to go to a public tech school in a state ... bouncing around my head for about a week nonetheless.   In the summer ... coordinator (basically a guidance counselor) to review my college application

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  Pecker, but if you're willing to lump a bioengineering, bioengineering ... multimeter in my backpack. Why wouldn't you have a multimeter in your backpack ... flavor of nerdiness.  If you choose to climb up all three and a half

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  's honestly a bonus (living in EC means I really don't get much unintentional ... (shocker, I know). This IAP, I'm getting back to reading in two ways: trying to read a little bit in the mornings after I wake up, and reading over

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... to start fresh in a new dorm room, decked out with a couple personal ... Giants song Birdhouse in your Soul. They’re awesome. A blank deck of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015