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• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  about the event and this is what he told me: "The Next House Thanksgiving ... think approximately 85 showed up. The dinner is generously sponsored by ... family. While it is only advertised to Next House, our goal is to give

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  notice that, in the rolling average of emotions, successive bets feel much ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside ... were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is ... across in the last few weeks and months: Boston Globe: "And the band is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  drums to destroy the undead is so strongly swimming in the zeitgeist that ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... the kind of world I want to live in with its terrible beauty and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K ... the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... -- thanks for the pictures! It is freezing, but we are happy =) The Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in the interview, you should know that Lou Dobbs is a television ... know want to know what a triffid is. If you've got all that, enjoy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in California is superior. :-( Time to break out the window air conditioner unit ... 've been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Suite Life ~20 pictures, be careful (Updated Wed, 5/17/06)

  

  Cambridge edge (Cambredge?) of the Charles River. To the east of my dorm are ... residents do In-house library Here's the Porter Room, a common space large ... with a computer (the wave of the future!) Laundry room In the suites

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Sneak Peek A teeny tiny sneak preview of BC REX. I mean really. It's basically useless.

  

  Ability I'm so mature, I know. Anyway, I've got to run, Alicia, the director of MIT-Spain is in Madrid, and all of the interns are meeting for ... Thanks to the wonders of the Internet, all the way from Madrid, Spain

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Coming Into My Own ft. an exciting semester and an exciting job lined up + making positive changes to…

  

  hours in the morning to cram work in is honestly pretty nice. I've also ... . That being said, this is definitely the semester in which I think I ... .911, is pretty fun and the engineering design class, 6.902, is the intro to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 16, 2020
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is MIT Code?

  -250, taking Linear Algebra, which is the unit distribution: 4 hours in class per ... MIT uses numbers for everything. You could be in 10-250 taking 18.06, which is 4-0-8, for 6-5. At MIT, all of your friends would understand
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  interested in the answers to some of them. That's okay - they're my questions ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  utilized to connect pieces of the colon in patients with Crohn’s disease, or ... near you in less than five years. The translation from bench to bedside ... experience is not a limiting factor. In particular, he tries to find students

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finding a job at the National Institutes of Health A guide to getting a job at the NIH

  

  ://www.training.nih.gov/student/) with links to student programs. After sending in the Summer Internship ... across your information are so low! What you have to do is browse the NIH ... , and desire to learn. Once you are in MIT, you can use the Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what ... worries, take the January TOEFL and feel free to let us know somewhere in ... Ambreen wrote: "What is the rationale behind question 'what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and RSVP here. On Wednesday, I will fly to Florida in preparation for my ... This week, MIT admissions officers will begin to travel across the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... . :) A lot of what is in the report is based on the data we collected ... Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story Of @MITStudents as told by the person behind it

  

  them back out to the best of our ability. If your student group is ... me an explanation of what DSL is trying to do with it (and, for that matter, what DSL is), which I wanted to post here. What do you know

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  didn't have the maturity to see these changes in others; the MIT I first ... 'm proudest of is that I'm more confident in myself and who I am. I came to MIT ... I was probably one of the youngest people ever to read the blogs. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023