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• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  First of all, Welcome to the MIT Family! (click to see full ... statistics. It's always interesting to see how you fared (especially since this ... peeled on the myMIT portal. Sign the guestbook to introduce yourself to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  's important to know how MIT helps its students once they're here. I hope you ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  MIT. Impostor syndrome started to take a backseat, and taking CS classes ... enough though, I had to start thinking about internships, and I couldn ... drew closer, resume workshops and interview tips began to dominate my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... miraculin stays bound to our taste buds—fifteen to thirty minutes. The maximum

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  how many students from Spain apply to MIT each year, but just in case someone from Spain is reading this, allow me to say that you have one ... every day (from 10 AM to 1 PM) and at least one test every day of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  the workplace you would have to reserve a time slot to use the big office computer, bring all of your files down to it, do what you needed to ... collaborate, share, and process data without needing to set up heavy

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  of pajamas – all winter long it seemed. “Looks like we will need to ... reception in the MIT Museum celebrating the kick-off to MIT”s 150 Celebration ... real pleasure to listen to Tod Machover animatedly describe the FAST Arts

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.

  

  ? There’s just no way to tell!” The seniors all clammered, “There’s no need ... My apologies to Clement Clark Moore. ‘Twas the night before finals ... there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  My Funny Valentine No kissing on Valentine's Day.

  

  infection rendering my voiceless and without a desire to eat. So I think my ... Roommate: That's not sexy. Me: Yes, yes I know. --- My Roommate: We need a Medlink. Enter Medlink, Mike. Medlink Mike: What seems to be the problem

  • by Bryan
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 2

  

  discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... forward to watching "The Incredibles" tonight and not thinking about ... 've been lucky enough to work so far with Stu, Quinton, Salvador (the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  those entries. Instead, I want to focus on something much more grandiose, much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd ... poll on Doonesbury.com asking readers where Alex should go to college. As

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  extraordinary and everyday beauty the city in fall is my city

  

  real, and I found myself stopping to take pictures so much that by the ... I got up a little early this morning thanks to the time change and decided to walk to Trader Joe's to do my grocery shopping. There's two

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  entertained? There's really not much to lose. The opening comedian was from ... desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am oblivious to the world around me. Both are valid options. Either way, I got

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…

  

  student center to battle it out for a shot at glory! So how much would you ... food than you'll know what to do with (hint: give it to a hungry ... anything to them was Battle of the Bands.* For an hour and a half one night

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... .  We don’t have time right now to write something too substantial, so in attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  kicked in; I'm allergic to pretty much every type of tree you can think of ... On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... North America, and is home to over 1.3 million trees, shrubs, and woody

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

  ’m getting to see how much everyone has grown. However, Reflecting back, I ... our classes, there’s so much to learn. But I found no use complaining ...   ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress about - academics, career, finances, etc.- so much so that the ... are. People are more willing to help you than you think they are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mattress Dominoes! One of many reasons why my summer is better than yours.

  

  about what I have to say all that much - there, I covered everyone!), I ... are brains, really, but they're at least marginally related to this post. My Neuroscience class had 17 students who are pretty much the best

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  go out, all these things that used to bring me so much joy. I feel ... be able to access so much reality. For two weeks in a row now, I ... This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020