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  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  Dining is such a fancy word. Think of the different mental pictures ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... constricted greatly by where you live, because all of the dorms with dining

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of the rest of my life is meeting an anxious end. I'm still in the same ... information technology and toward the pursuit of transportation. I'm nursing my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... prison system in Georgia and the benefits of rehabilitation, and the Chairman of the Georgia Department of Corrections read it (and my age with it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  I need to dew was to trek up into the mountains of Switzerland and see the famous statue of Freddie Mercury built in Montreux, the site of Queen's major recording studio. The statue can be seen on the cover of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... the feeling of being stimulated, with new insights and questions brewing ... eloquent my classmates are… and in fact, much of the insight I’ve gathered

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  the last several weeks of the semester, I was so relieved that I didn ... autostitching, or automatically stitching together separate images of the same ... coded this with the Python version of Drake, which can be used for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander ... , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (WHO 2019) I've been a bit absent from the blogs lately. It's not from a lack of ideas of ... more without working over time. The problem seems to be a lack of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What have I been doing this break?

  

  prefers 9 or 9.5. Ah, the mysteries of life. Also, during term, my body is ... : - Played with my eight year-old brother - Watched most of the complete series ... with my brother (the same brother as above, though I have a few of them

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  in all the sports championships I care about (or in the case of the ... and all the fans in pandemonium of national pride is pretty exciting РI ... the rest of my life, I really want to be a Chloé....so see if you see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  Well, I've reached my first "last" of the year... I just put the ... -dimensional science geek (most of the time). I read poetry voluntarily, and I quote it ... ungodly long paper about the symbolism of the whale or some such thing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  went in it, but additionally learned a lot about the process of economics ... where I am today.) In this morning's edition of The Tech, the student ... -trivial modification to the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Tell me this does not

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting ... this summer. In the beginning, I braved the Boston streets in a week of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... videos a few minutes in length about each of the dorms so that the incoming ... course, most of the videos are nothing more than 5 minutes of someone with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on a desk? That which we call a workspace by any other name would look as depressing...

  

  structure elucidation problem… Anyway. The point is I’ve done a lot of work – good work, the kind where I do it and then I’m like, “Whoa! I know stuff ... minds. Well, let’s have a tour of the clean, organized and happy version

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  I’m perched on the top step of the super-architected Stata amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching ... principles of design: rhythm, scale, proportion. We watched the Eames Classic

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  What Makes You Tick? To all the Early applicants.

  

  I spent the majority of my time re-reading and re-examining my ... basically the master of churning out pointless fluff "insightful" essays for ... " orientation of stapling pieces of paper together (the staple should ideally make

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  The start of the semester was comically reminiscent of the first day ... , was. By the end of the story I had inched halfway around the table to ... -confidence, start a good pattern of sleeping and exercising and eating vegetables, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  sent back radar images of the surface. We got to see the images shortly ... writing - a rather different style of exploring the world. At JPL I was ... think of myself as a pretty good communicator. Imagine my surprise when

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008