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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  are now professors! Paula Hammond ('84, PhD '93), is now the Head of ... degrees) is now a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering ... how an MIT education is a valuable investment. Despite the awkward

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  enough" is easy. The challenge is to admit that the way you study doesn ... ][email protected] mailing list. It means speaking up when you think the group is wandering ... as competent as you. The club is not going to fall apart just because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  I recently saw a comic where a professor says "This is not the type ... certainly receive a hefty sum of homework, the main problem is time management ... must say, is endemic on campus. This semester, for the first time in my

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  antics of Nadya Okamoto. Here is a summary. At the time of writing this Nadya is a rising senior at Harvard primarily known for founding the non ... I mean the difference between where she started and where she is now

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... think, is beginning to adapt around the growing community. This year, as a ... be puzzles. With the epic line "Star Rats is a stupid theme" (around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  using the agenda). Each Sunday is marked with a gray vertical line. I ...  what I really got out of all of the confusion. High school is what you make of it ... is to stay indoors nearly all the time; how lonely it is to barely see

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to MIT: Choosing a Dorm the good and not-so-good reasons

  

  This post is the second in a series of Guide to MIT posts. Check out ... dorm). DINING: this one is a major addition to the bill and an ... )convenient the accommodations are, you will not be happy in a dorm that doesn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  To a lot of people, myself included, getting into MIT is the dream we ... other word. “Benjamin-behalf-the-Committee-is-pleasure-offer…….” Mom, it ... ;   In the back is the binder that I describe, and the open is binder

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends This is the way my hiatus ends Not with a bang but a vaguely-poetic angsty ... the Internet (even typing that number is terribly guilt-inducing, BUT

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  , and is the talk of campus. . . President Obama came and visited on ... visit the weekend before. MIT went into scramble mode, which is always fun ... speak, it was a no go. That is, until I realized I worked for the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... is neutral, without the dark ruminations and dramatically positive ... This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... spirit of hacking, the office is bedecked with a variety of posters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  why, so my job is to look at the mechanisms of MFG function in the ... to the awesomeness). I was thrilled, and everybody in my lab is totally ... For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  trees are all flowering just like they were, and the weather is sunny but ... yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what ... over two months. It is unfortunately not helpful because for the first

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tyrannosaurus REX the prefrosh are coming, the prefrosh are coming!

  

  fantasy. REX is the beginning of the real deal, and the signal that your old ... yourself on occasion to contemplate the truly nutso fact that time is passing ... just how wild it is to be here, living this moment as opposed to the one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  muddy, which is why I'll be wearing the sweatpants — the ones I'll only ... ground is not. When you run the Boston Marathon, you are assigned to a ... four and five hours after I begin. This is the third year I have run the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  Written by Danny The Brass Rat is one of MIT’s most iconic symbols ... . Just to give a sense of how crazy and loud it was, here is a video of the ... have the “This is fine dog” meme as our Beaver!!!!! This year is the year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  the next four (or three or five) years, wherever here is. That’s not ... know what it meant. MIT is MIT entirely because of the people here. For ... (including asking for help). Another effect is that the intelligent

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  that’s starting from the end, which is cheating. You know the end. The end, as I said, is that I left. The means to that end are worth talking ... is what happened to me: I started out as the girl who got a reasonable

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  important stories, about MIT and about planning our futures. The first is Drop ... the MIT News Office here. It is about risk, innovation, and life plans ... all the difference. The second is President Reif’s charge to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014