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  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  -raising to help you out in a time of need. I'm endlessly grateful to them for ... to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a pernicious myth."]connection between body and mind[/annotation] to keep both in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  pull off the kinds of academic feats you're used to. Working full-tilt in ... something that's better than what used to be there before (which in my case ... -management skills you haven't needed up until now. And while keeping your ego in check

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  my priority, and I'm much happier now. MIT is confusing in many more ... [/caption] Throughout high school I was often lost in confusion. I like to think about ... thing. In my senior year, I used a Google Doc as an agenda to keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  . According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:   ... really like to give these kind of honors to fictional MIT grads, though. In ... said to have graduated magna cum laude from MIT. In an MIT Viewbook

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  research and development office in Cambridge. Adam is the go-to guy for ... August 2006, he asked me to marry him in Killian Court with a bunch of tour ... to take pictures in the museum, and we got this great picture of us

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Difficulty With Data the shadow of an application

  

  . When it comes to baseball I'm a converted sabremetrician. In the natural world, I believe in the scientific method, which is to say I believe in ... which occur in our universe. But there is a problem with social science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  to lose yourself in. oh, you're losing sight, you're losing touch all these little things seem to matter so much that they confuse you in the ... almost all of us, is a once-in-a-lifetime experience. it's not often that

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Sunrise, Sunset An MIT-Israel student shares his day

  

  here in Israel) is something that forces you to stop. It can be ... I’m not going to be in a Jewish wedding anytime soon, so far all I can ... that make it pretty homey. Every Wednesday there is a street festival in

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Are people on the East Coast friendly? An entry especially for those from the Midwest.

  

  are so many awesome people to meet and activities to try (and so much work to do) at MIT that I haven't spent a whole lot of time in Boston ... answer, because MIT is the community you will spend most of your time in

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 21, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  corners in the two photos to figure out how to line up the images, and then ... :)   Rose R. ‘17 Mural-ish thing :) In order to brighten up my room a bit, I ... sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  turn out the lights always the last one to say goodbye

  

  filled with memories too large to contain any of us. It is the end of my ... changed from "what happens now?" to "what happens next?" and there is so, so ... , or that I have grown from it. That will take time to see though, and in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 31, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Midsemester Night’s Dream Technically an All-Nighter's Dream, but hey, close enough

  

  to write this post at 5:38 AM. In front of me is an empty Pringles can and some iced tea, to my right is a notebook full of vectors and ... stressed I am, or how much work MIT is, or how to handle it, because I

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... , which would make some in the audience gasp ("She got into MIT with those

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  video game metaphor was easiest to conceptualize in comic form, so enjoy all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT amongst the autobiographical brainbarf in which the monsters are classes and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  How Wrestling With Snapping Turtles Can Get You Into MIT A student profile of an aspiring limnologist.

  

  , writing search algorithms to help fictional cows find salt licks in ... to reenact this feat may result in serious injury, excessive brinyness ... ) freshwater version of marine biology. This field is notably much more prevalent

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... singing defiantly in the group session before cutting to clips from the ... ready to be at MIT again, especially an MIT that had changed so much while

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  (Bitter)sweet home meeting high school teachers again, and visiting my hometown for (probably) the last time

  

  that this is probably going to be the last time I’ll be in Alabama for a ... I were both in town and had nothing to do. Other than that I cut my ... . The best part is that Tom and I didn’t have to follow the dress code

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Underwater Dreams (from a distance) A reflection on immigration, student activism, and civic engagement at MIT.

  

  live, and how to live ethically, and how to live in a way that is very ... asked him what he’d like to say to students in his situation, undocumented ... part of it, at least. No one’s journey to MIT is typical. His wasn

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  identification.  In reality, most of the confusion is about how to best leverage a ... . In that respect, I appreciate the spotlight that is now shining ... fail to recognize or appreciate, is that amongst a host of factors

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

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  is beautiful: (1) Because I get to see this view every day walking ... sailing photos, but I'm not confident enough in my abilities to bring ... we have wacky (modern? postmodern?) buildings, the best river views in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014