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  Knock On Wood Can I Graduate?

  

  . We'll see how close I stay on that contract. More updates coming soon as the night progresses. 2:13 AM I started rocking out in my Athena Cluster to: Still going. I just had a DATA breakthrough. I want to hug

  • by Bryan
  • May 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  pro-Klan stance, and its endorsement of slavery." They went on to call ... later. If we adjusted the gross to fit the present day consumer price ... and Sesame Street. But it most definitely should be shown to smart and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  story, if one at all. But, life was continuing to move on. In the Spring ... experience, I was predisposed to fail Physics. That’s what it felt like. So, if you’re reading this because you want to know what the secret to

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

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

  

  down the street with the wind at their backs. (It's easier to be generous ... Francisco Bay Area. At the time, it wasn't clear if these internships would be ... I started The Idiot by Elif Batuman but I'm not sure if I'll finish it

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

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

  

  Chicago. That is, of course, if everything goes to plan. By the looks of it ... ’t own the tracks it travels over, instead contracting for “trackage rights ... , yeah, and Kevin McCarthy has failed to win on the first ballot

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  audio or pictures of this concert? Would love to hear it / see it... The ... . Here's the story, as I have come to understand it: The Grateful Dead ... Grateful Dead returned to MIT the following night to perform the Spring

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  everything seemed to be going so well...I failed the first test. I had never ... behind it. Fast forward to the middle of December. The second of our two ... love with science in the first place. If you choose to take 8.012 - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... to be a first-team all-league selection in the Ivy League. It’s simple ... many hours as it takes to succeed in the classroom. "Jimmy goes after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  If you’re scared of decision day Here's an exercise

  

  and my friends to not say anything about it if I don't get in? That ... to say that it's the "top sliver" because there is no rational way to ... awesome their student is, and are trying to make the school understand. If I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  the back of my mind. It started as snippits and sentences that came to ... ’m not intelligent, it doesn’t mean I’m going to fail. It just means that I ... academically, it started to make sense in my athletic life. On the basketball

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  need today, and the determination to take full advantage of it. Through ... education, there remains the anxiety over how to pay for it. I know that for ... "every government dollar invested in energy R&D returns 40-fold to the

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  more substantial. It's also always helpful to have the book put out for ... the whole way through. It's a really good way to relax about the test ... won't teach you as much about the SATs, it's a good way to get you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  , "If one of our parents is coming with us to CPW, is it okay for us to ... ???" Alas, the EA telethons have passed, but if you'd like a phone call, let ... over the coming weeks. If you're super excited to talk to someone, you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  obtain the transportation patterns of individuals, perhaps using it to ... warrant if looking to use the data for law enforcement purposes. Further ... sense of the legal frameworks that govern our country and apply it to an

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  PSA: there’s a new mit.edu!

  

  wanted to transform the Search function. We sought not just to make it ... ways to make Search satisfy and delight our visitors. If the ... mit.edu. It was designed and built by the same agency, Upstatement, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  about the intricacies of black holes. It turned out to be less Nobel ... adjective to describe the same adjective. That's how much it blew the mind ... week. It turns out that, due to the gnarly distortions in spacetime

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  how (not?) to concentrate a quick guide

  

  the breadsticks; call back Eat food Wait for breadsticks; try to concentrate on assignment. Fail It is 2:34 am Eat breadsticks Try to ... Try to concentrate on assignment Fail Browse memes Try to

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • May 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  world and contracts, pulling the blue piston to the left. The air is again displaced, sending it back to the hotter region of the engine, and the cycle ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  eventful return back to the Institute. It's odd how quickly everything felt ... first week back. #nofilter.[/caption] Returning back to the 'Tute “After a ... mom before falling asleep to start it all over again. That was just the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  asking why this is unethical if it's public knowledge. To begin, well, it ... against their contract and policies. But most important: the choice to make ... DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005