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• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  . We ended up riding every one of the water slides, except for me -- I ... bunch of cute guys. What more could you ask for in a vaca?

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  answer for you. If you're honest about who you are and what interests and ... Michigan Wolverines (Go Blue!), and the Boston Red Sox (but I always root for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wheels on the Bus Go Round And Round what do you get when you cross the flinstones with public transportation?

  

  's not as substantive as other newspapers but it's good for finding out ... prototype ready in September for people to ride across the city. Eventually

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  . Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for ... ready to vie for the number one spot. Next Tuesday's lessons will be about

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to establish credibility for a character by giving them an MIT degree. Here are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  . I love all kinds of sports and will be playing for MIT's field hockey ... the amusement park next door for free, get to stay outside all day and ... [whatever that is], and I've worked as an intern for IBM since I was 7 but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  of Feb 5!! Go to our website for more info: alumweb ... August 2012 pi Reunion for the Class of 2009...

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  intimidating-looking cafe I saw in the neighborhood of my hotel, asked for a ... twenty miles tip-to-tail. We’d speed through the middle for a few minutes ... . For the whole evening we ate and chatted and the mother would emerge

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  4th and Goal – College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus tours. I miss feeling out of place on those tours. I miss seeing MIT for ... nostalgic for me now. I miss the witty lyrics and heartfelt chords that I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  us to Boston. I talked to the boy for a moment, running through the ... to Nashville for the flight), where he was living (Simmons, the same as ... before (fast, especially for the South, speckled with laughter). He sat a

  • by Ella T. '25
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  world that the random firing of my neurons had created for me, but, for ... , for the most part, the words I said were helpful—that I was capable of ... determine if they’re feeling down. I think genuinely caring for the people

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young Economist (intended for PhD students), William Thomson writes: There is ... will not stop"]set a calendar event for August 5th[/annotation] to remove

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  experiences, or the lack thereof flailing around in a sea of adjectives trying to find the noun

  

  tab and don't reopen it for a year. i've been thinking a lot about race lately. for a lot of reasons. one is that, well, being[annotation note ... you signing in for?" - "beewa" - "sorry, which group?" - "B. W. A

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 13, 2021
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... for Undergraduate Research OPportunities. As my family demonstrates, it ... so grateful for my lab. This blog is about how I found my UROP and what

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  college dorms didn’t fully hit me until I walked in for the first time. For ... residents went back and forth for a few years, reportedly until 1972. After ... to the first post in this series, I sent out a poll asking people for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... familiarity with probability helps. For our purposes, you can think of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  For a lot of incoming MIT students, the story is the same. Four ... she walks into Walker Memorial, three weeks into the semester, for her ... solutions that can help them, because for the first time, they actually have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  is always a cause for celebration. And, on the surface at least ... as much as I enjoy writing for the blogs, I spend the bulk of my time ... with my academic work. Even at moments when missing classes to study for

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  McCormick Observatory in Charlottesville, VA, for their first public ... astronomy professor for permission to deliver a 20-minute public talk on ... away and make a home for yourself in a bathroom stall. Dealing with it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... patriotic?)(Oh, alright. Duh. President's Day.) (For those of you who don ... a little spout at the top for washing your hands when your business is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011