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• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  interesting, comprising two rooms collectively large enough to create a ... with tiny shrieks. From getting the parts he needed to having a fully ... they want. Kevin has found a way to capitalize on this freedom to make

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  say that trying to will my body back to homeostasis topped off with a 11 ... 't help but be reminded, like when Obama came to MIT a few Fridays ago. It ... to be up there, on THAT VERY STAGE, doing standup with a hand puppet

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  car. But in a lot of ways, not much changed. It’s just another place to ... of around twenty questions, and, after a few months, managed to get ... ,[/annotation] with a double minor in Japanese and Energy Studies Christian S. '22

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  angle throughout, or you need to grip the chalk a bit further back. If you ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how-to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... 's atmosphere of absolute energy. I remember a large bouncy castle and ... only covered a pinprick of what was in store for us. And to everyone who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Springing into Junior Year actually not Springing, just Spring

  

  [annotation note="unfortunately, this does not translate to having a lot of free ... ="the last day students can add a class to their schedule without a fee ... Calendar and instead choose to spend an hour every semester making a silly

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 4, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 2 Wow, lots of questions to be answered...

  

  /supervisor. 2. Sometimes, it does make sense to lump similar activities into a ... a third SAT II. You do not need to take an "emergency" SAT II. 2. Use ... schools. Also, remember that to be a businessman, you do not need to major

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  's Knowledge Theorem: if you want to learn more about any topic, there's a world ... substantive about Iran on stage is like expecting a monkey to type Hamlet. So ... Walsh--a nuclear expert who's traveled to both Iran and North Korea (fun

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep ... , right? Perhaps it was the universe trying to teach me a lesson about ... nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News ... brainstormed on how to take that energy and translate it to the rest of MyMIT, as ... the right path. After a year of trying to find that path, I can't tell

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  a long time to change the energy mix appreciably. Yet we are probably ... As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  Alternatively, how to build a cult! Only it’s not a cult, it’s just a ... beginning on campus [annotation note="I am literally on a plane headed back to ... time. People talk a lot about how important your living group is to your

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  January Questions Omnibus 1 Some questions answered.

  

  you school does not follow the US school system do you need to hand in a ... ://my.mit.edu. ------------------------------------- Anon wrote, "How much does being a Siemens Westinghouse Semifinalist and ... (it takes a long time to compile these, even with the brief answers

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  couldn’t remember. I did a few practice exams. You need to understand these things just a bit more, they seemed to smugly suggest. “You need to ... classes race by, translates to a need for strong time-management that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... . I had a lot of stuff to pack. Go figure. You accumulate a lot of stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  紐約與我

  

  （三年級我們在醫院實習）都沒有照什麼相片。可是我倒是照了這一張。有一天晚上近七點時，我們搞了一天的事務，都非常的累。突然，搬運工送來了一檯”智慧白板“ （Smart Board，就是螢幕與白板合一）。我們好興奮地把插頭插上，開始享用這個白板。當插上後狐狸歌 (WHAT DOES THE FOX SAY ... 。我非常喜歡這個雕藝，因為我覺得它代表的紐約的多元，紐約的活力，與紐約的活潑。對我來說，這是最恰當的比喻。 2. 今年我和我的女朋友參加紐約的萬聖節遊行。當天晚上真是非常的難忘，路上好幾萬的紐約客盛裝打扮，愉悅飲酒，好不快樂。最近我讀了海明威 "A

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  . They need to find a way to bring students in who otherwise would be ... to out-of-state private universities. These stories, I think, give a ... a trail for other students and earned a scholarship to a prestigious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Brief Retreat How a short trip to Block Island left me revitalized

  

  has a happy ending: With the lighthouse to one's back, one need ... up last weekend, when my family and I took a trip to Block Island, a ... sinking feeling that I was able to shake off by taking a few swimming

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

  place. By the time I got around to actually having the energy to write a ... a number of classes, and I haven't been writing as much as I wanted to ...  terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  things to do with their time. I know that after such a long school year ... their time. (You don't need links to find out what types of cool things ... came to MIT, it started way back in high school. So here are a few

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010