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  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  wasn’t as great. Freshman year, in the Faculty Records, he was “called to ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal ... Maclaurin traveled the world to recruit foreign students. Numbers prove MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nagging, awful feeling that the clever trick is going to be forever beyond ... the water and to socialize. I asked if I could socialize with the class ... would watch me repeatedly fail to overcome those obstacles. I saw the dark

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  this project was to try and see how long the water source would last--if ... source, causing the first source you built to fail. Of course, there ... future sources are built in the next few years, this would need to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... strange joy of being reached out to and the beauty of the idea that I could ... me that it wouldn’t be a problem, but my mom did wonder if I wanted to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  , with the energy and creativity to improvise if - when - something doesn ... shy away from participating for the rest of the semester. Fail to ... . - I’m not here specifically to be a teacher; I’m here to help out in the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

  people who kept challenging the ways I think, inspiring me to be more, or ... , I wonder if MIT needs to be as hard as it is. I deeply appreciated ... still the same. I’m still a grad student. Still trying to do research on

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  -to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send ... whatsoever to do with age when I couldn't stop giggling and failed miserably at ... bought some coils of wire to be our springs, labeled appropriately with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  -time, so this isn't going to really be a post about my own experiences in the ... would be shifted to the West Campus. The space thus vacated could be ... (click to enlarge): You'll also notice that the Lewis report calls not

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... proud of what we were able to make. The body and handles of the camera are ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  bye (for now)

  

   stories of mental health at mit. if you would like to read it, it's called "the ... people and wonder if it would be the last time i saw them, if not ever ... extended reflection on what it means to be creating a community of people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 12, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  the top half of the Red Line. A map might be useful to follow along. CJ ... machine. Our first stop would be Ashmont, then taking the trolley to ... high-speed. CJ: To be fair, it was faster than the Green Line. Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ode to Freshman Days composed in the wee hours of morning

  

  I came to MIT a wide-eyed froshling. The sun shone brighter through ... , unreasonable psets. The fight to rise will start in your subconscious. Without ... to wear jeans. Nice things are for the early birds.   The easiest thing

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 29, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... , a.k.a. Tony Stark, be an MIT alum got me interested in the movie. According to the Wikipedia bio, this is Stark's background:  

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

  The future isn’t the answer reflecting on anxiety

  

  the fall semester, only to be unearthed again over [annotation note ... no immediate safe space to go to if something bad happens (hence, the ... want to say that the future scares me. But how can I be scared of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If man is five Then most people are six, and if most people are six then pre-meds are seven.

  

  just to be in the same room for a minute and catch a glimpse of his well ... recommendation would be to get a UROP or two and see what you're more interested in--the ... to go myself to reveal the wonders of Chemical Engineering to excited

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  eight hours of sleep per night and if I don’t have anywhere to be I will ... burning any bridges. Do I regret the decision now? To be honest, yeah ... time favorite has to be the Braum's chain in Texas. It gives me major

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  lifetime?" How many years before it'd have to be rewritten again? The ... ' Guild, work can be anything from helping cart the Nerf guns to and from the office, to writing or reviewing a game. In Tech Squares, work can be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  IHTFParadise – A Journey of Depression at MIT Guest entry by Angelina G.

  

  but failed to meet the expectations of my supervisor. I felt guilty ... legs back to the bus station. I had earned the certificate by presenting ... . Something was wrong. The next day Lauren messaged me and asked me to go on a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Maybe it’s okay to be this way The return of Dumbledore, and a new professor friend

  

  being interested in science + wanting to help people and change the world ... rehearse for the musical, because no one would be able to hear me) and phoned ... finish. This seems to be the MIT way: punt your psets to help your friends

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 3, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  inspirational quotes, including “All anyone wants to be labeled is smart!" Yes ... to be doing the World and Nation section. 2:29am: Apparently in honor ... for quite some time, so people know when to show up in the office, no

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011