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  Mark Zuckerberg Visits MIT NBD.

  

  00b. So, sorry Mark. Can't help you out, but Rachel can! There are ... his visit, but at the same time it made me soberingly-aware of how much ... [dare I say more competent] people working for him while he gets to enjoy

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  any number of other qualities and characteristics. While one's race can ... get excited about the prospect of such a student stepping foot onto a ... that place a premium on diversity utilize a much broader definition of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  resume? B: So I can get a well-paying job when I graduate. A: Why do you need a well-paying job when you graduate? B: So I can live well. A: Why ... , Aristotle argues that no ethical theory can provide a rule-based decision

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Home Under the Dome sorority recruitment, tips, and my experience

  

  start. FSR is over the span of four days, where you get the opportunity to ... and get to know the new class. I vividly remember the first time I ... ’s recruitment team spends a ton of time over the summer to get everything ready

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • August 14, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  a rail bridge, so pedestrians or cars can't get on it. Given all the ... University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note ... ="i’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT and Black Greek Letter Organizations An Interview

  

  members can span several generations.  Kenneth is one member like that. He ... to get a chance to meet as many fraternity members as possible and ... gained 20 moms when she joined the alumni chapter. She knows that she can

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  non-stop / walang hinto what a mess

  

  getting it ready. no, it’s not all work, if anything i’ve been doing can ... spring semesters. the only time i can think of that’s comparable was during ... was maybe i am doing much. even then, it felt like i was approaching my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  . You get an empty, sinking feeling in your stomach, and you wonder if you ... , “There’s this feeling that no matter how hard you work, you can always be better, and as long as you can be better, you’re not good enough.” But you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  get the point). * The nicest day of the class was probably the first day. We didn’t really get much swimming done. The instructor told us ... . Their difficulty can be so asymmetrical. You spend ten hours stuck on a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  street — can have the largest impact, should I be hit by a bus, or meet the ... school, I knew what I would get: four more years of living near home, with ... 've learned so much at MIT: about education, and privilege, and being thoughtful

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bursting the MIT Bubble 1.0 things to do in Downtown Boston

  

  up for the night, usually around midnight, students can still venture ... . Regardless, Haymarket is the place for best grocery deals, ones a buyer can ... Downtown Boston are real because “much of the Haymarket produce is what the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  platforms, called Concert Lift; an automated trash can; a walking cane that ... the raspberry pi to the arduino, the serial communication kept getting ... before it. I actually feel so close to this team. I have so much warmth and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  1916. East Campus can be found (somewhat unsurprisingly) on the eastern ... , way too much rebar, making it a Faraday cage nearly indestructible. Since the buildings are pretty much a fireproof bomb shelter (wrecking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Challenge Accepted I even put off writing this post.

  

  of assignment you can do the night before," to which a student ... (yes, I might give you a campus tour!), I sometimes get asked about the ... . That is, no matter how much time is given for an assignment, it will

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • December 10, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Colors In every sense of the word

  

  . I have been aware of race for as long as I can remember ... --which really are well-intentioned most of the time--can honestly be very tiring ... that, on a much less international level, here in the United States, many

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  worthwhile watch and can be helpful if you're missing MIT like I am. Some ... in her life (getting a job, graduate school, and marriage) occurred in ... student says that he doesn't think he's "smart" as much as he is hardworking

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

  Bring your stuffed toys to class reflections on liminality

  

  . Come up with two very different ways to get from point A to point B ... silly hats not on Halloween. Wear silly hats to your lab section. Get ... about how you can't do this after you graduate. Worry about how you can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  hour or so in, I can tell they're getting tired of it. My camera is off ... in the living room, but he also doesn't fare well outside where he can ... around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reverse Culture Shock Catching up and counting down

  

  up with, even in the absence of much else, and I’m sure being ... , clutching all sorts of books, taking pictures of and getting autographs from ... want to read this. And then there’s the bigger scope—trying to get the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 17, 2014