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  gawking at the height of the buildings. It feels strange to be in the center ... - college in the Northeast was a promised land. I wonder if I ought to have ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  , especially in the face of having their party privileges taken away. To be ... , end up executing the silent dance party, there'll be many pictures to ... to Susan Hockfield, but she never RSVPed). Since our return for the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  failed me! But why? Linear algebra to the… rescue? TL;DR, rotations in 3D ... times to achieve the desired orientation. There must be something else ... allows the player to build some really crazy contraptions – from amphibious

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  prelude. I used to be a (slightly) strange child. I once failed a ... . At MIT, it’s not enough to be vaguely smart. It turns out you have to ... attempt at pretending to be smart. Getting on campus didn’t fix my tendency

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  to kill the time.[/annotation] The plan is as follows: I will be ... Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... , yeah, and Kevin McCarthy has failed to win on the first ballot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  called Edmund Berkeley and asked if he wanted to develop a market research activity. He said: "No. If you want to do it, do it on your own." Over the ... percent of the research fee Тƒо in advance. To my amazement 12 companies

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here ... reason. The ~week after we got the notice to move out was... a lot. The ... decision: Go home to be with my family, or bug out with some friends who

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• 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…

  

  Report (USNWR) released its rankings and MIT fell to the number 7 slot, tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  check out the hosts! If you've set your mind on somewhere, apply to a ... age, such as 21 or 25). The bios are also a great place to find if a host is off-grid, or if you will be expected to camp outside or eat only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  about the idea of being the head engineer and running up to my boss after ... Reflecting on the lessons of last semester, I knew I was going to ... discussing how it was "sorta easy". I failed. Badly. Geez, I can't seem to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  disable access to the motion picture(s) listed below, or if it fails to ... 't find anything. What's the fallback when YouTube fails to provide adequate ... copyright holder to possess. If this step cannot be taken promptly, please

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  …But I never thought it would be so easy to practically fail. Almost ... !!!) multiple ideas to solve a key problem. Yeahhhhhhhhhh--- I don’t like the ... things MIT has been doing to me: I finally buckled down and memorized the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A way a lone a last a loved a long the An opportunity for heated debate and a cry for revolution.

  

  this should be company policy, since I had already handled the food and ... on the bus, and then I called Mitra to settle things from an economic ... This weekend I went on a rafting trip down the Kennebec river in mid-to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  ever I willingly failed =P) and told me to sleep "a lot" and come back if ... an epiphany with mini-flashbacks as if the audience isn't smart enough ... When it comes to immune systems, I'm the most arrogant person you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  what i’m up to this summer a list of verbs

  

  , and while the weather leaves much to be desired, there is still a lot of beauty to be found here. The sunshine drenches everything in ethereal ... down the street with the wind at their backs. (It's easier to be generous

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 25, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  learn at MIT will be how to fail. Okay, one time I said that the most ... the failing gets to be primary. This might sound surprising, since ... how to fail. If you're going to be a practicing scientist or engineer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  competence super smart and talented ofc. Raw talent I’d be referring to the ... academics, even if it’s not the same passion; I enjoy being able to grab ... competition of "I have to be the best, so you have to fail" or anything like

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m going to be a blogger! The words my family had to hear 635,382 times

  

  bags to make our car dip just a little bit. To my left in the line for ... entire life is in this car, pretty much, if you leave out all the friends I ... ones I will notice. I found out yesterday that I'll get to be a blogger

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  items in the catering contract? If you eat on campus in the dining plan ... One of the first things I did when I came to MIT was get myself on a ... – to coordinate and support work in the areas of food and agriculture

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  , asking if anyone might be interested. Surprisingly, the story got a lot of ... calls over which we ironed out the details of the trip. Kano wanted to go ... to be an incredible cafe with the [annotation note='just 8 euros for a

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2023