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• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  ), happens to be pals with Mark Bathe, who is a professor in course 20, who ... following sports once I got to college. Or maybe I just enjoy getting a peek ... . But in the last month, since coming back to MIT from Thanksgiving break

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  student in your hall) A midterm but no final 4 or 5 problem sets A ten-page ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT ... to graduate,” but let us not fret about semantics. HASS, in a vague

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  say all you're going to get are tips on how to eat like a West African ... the last to get up. After I get up I go to my job in Building 46, where ... . In a nutshell, summer is a diced onion, once carefully layered and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  Society, of which Ternus is a member. Long story short, Ternus explained to ... asked me if there was anything in particular I wanted him to take a photo ... Building 72. Although Cody and I left a little before sunset in order to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners. When I get stuck on a problem or am unsure about a step in a ... I sat down to have my 3 hours of lecture spat at me right in a row ... beavers. Our Harry Potter friends are looking on in amazement as to what

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  over after a few days. 2. I am old and need to get a real person job. I'm getting flown out to NYC soon for a full day of being wined, dined, and ... around to playing Braid, which is sort of like Portal in that it involves

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  onto the Stanford campus to give a guest lecture in web security, and ... pivot to a career unrelated to your major. Optimize for life ... kill us. Later that month we took a short trip to Tahoe to traipse

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  the tip of the iceberg...to get a head start on your plans check out our ... ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent ... Counselor on-hand in the Student Center or schedule a 20-minute appointment to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to avoid flooding in nonapocalyptic scenarios, is almost certain to lose ... before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched ... -finals, when I had absolutely nothing to do, I started reading a lot about this

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... 't include me in their follow forever. in a way, it was comforting to just read ... getting rejected from my top job choice and so i felt a strong urge to bury

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... would have been the kind of math that causes a ringing in your ears and ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  airport. After a short ride to the airport, I board transcontinental flight ... are a few things to think about as you visit colleges before making your ... surreptitiously jump out of my lofted bed trying to land with a gymnast's dismount

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  everything you write and syncs it to your computer to be used later in a ... notes you're taking. All it takes is a tap on a word you've written to ... change your mind. Here's the important stuff that you get in your box. You

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  the Academic Record page for like the n! time, it was a strange feeling to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... I slept. I slept voraciously. I slept with a vigor to make up for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences ... the airport, drove to my grandma's house a few miles away, and spent ... college, you're doing it wrong. I had a double Wilbur with double cheese and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  -wracking. You don't really get a chance to redo college, but that doesn't stop you ... C in 8.02, but at least I felt like a human person with attachments to ... interaction made your day? The trick to talking to people (at MIT and in real

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  New Portlets? Just throwin' some ideas around.

  

  manage to sequester a few minutes of Quinton's schedule, you'll see them in ... media, customized to your preferences, right in your portal. #2 OCW ... link to a given user's interests in academics as designated in his

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2004
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  . It was freeing, in a way, to be able to seek new dreams, create new ... commit to in the cup holder next to me. At last, I was able to open a ... where it was. I got reminded to go on this page because I found a video

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  things to look out for in a university, and they're all great. But there ... a barber in 5 years now. At least, not one where I had to tell them ... really spoken to a barber in the past 8 years, I walked trembling into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006