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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the ... gone to MIT and gotten a job at the career fair! Also in attendance on ... the floor space in my room. It’s now in cups on the desk, hanging from a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  desired distance to 0.5 meters. Then, if the code is written correctly, if ... definitely got the sense that this year is pushing me closer to the real world, to the starkest sense of being an independent individual in a global

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  the sun began to set in much clearer skies, I reflected on my experience ... . It's odd to think about it in this way, but MIT is one of the last ... now that I felt at ease in and around the water. More to the point, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  night in Lobdell in the Student Center there is Swing Dancing! That was my ... 'll post more information about how to get involved with birthright in the ... were the views. We even got to go to a gay pride parade in Tel Aviv

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... the time to do these hacks. I mean, considering someone is awake at all ... . Hacking Harvard is a popular favorite, and the hack you mention did in fact

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money ... girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome ... for Girls is the country's preëminent math competition for young women

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... kick to the face. - Scotty in Star Trek often says "Ye cannae change the ... costume he was wearing. - The easiest way to determine Chuck Norris' age is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... the weekend to have such a terrible end to it - see Anna H. '14's post ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  've learned to appreciate how much of the Institute is its people, but I've also learned how much the place shapes its people. Four. I used to play tennis ... out to the lounge at one in the morning and see people working. It's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  building 38 is, because all the buildings in the 30s are in a completely ... pretty much in disbelief until the recruiter actually called me, gave me ... ’s often a struggle to be just average in most of my technical classes. That

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  opportunity (which turned out to be somewhere in the middle of broad and ... wildland firefighting mask (which is the one we ended up going with). Just to ... balloons to the end of the course using mechanisms we had built in lab

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  ?) is the same: you come to MIT, most likely as a freshman, bright ... MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine ... your classes, a blank slate in the form of a P that equates a C to an A

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  to stick the landing. I think being in control is something I value a ... life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange, because I wanted to jump back up in the sky and say, no! I can't let go let

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I ... ’ve acquired on the way to becoming a full-fledged adult (in no particular order ... . Doing challenging things outside my comfort zone is the only way to grow

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  first date - a list of things that the male is supposed to do, and a list of things that the female is supposed to do - that was written by ... not, however, the sort of living group I would tend to click with in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  . (Although the placement of those windows leaves much to be desired.) [caption ... much harder to soundproof than solid walls, especially when even the ... -new concert hall modeled after the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin. Although it is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  entry is to let you know about the live webcast of the competition. It ... needed for the webcast. What you can't see in the picture is what I ... Who knows what course 6.270 is without having to look it up? Anybody

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  's the way life is. The real world is so much bigger than what you know now ... your friends, on your professors, on the random people you sit next to in ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple harmonic oscillations of the pendulum is going to keep whacking the sides of ... doing it right. And so I followed their advice. I tried to make the most

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  The ‘Game’ Supporting inter-collegiate relations.

  

  , MIT is in the mix too. MIT has a long standing tradition of hacking the ... So last week, I made a trek out to the school down the street for The ... I had the chance to go to the game. We started off by visiting the

  • by Bryan
  • November 25, 2006