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• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  For the integrity of alumposting, I'm pasting Daniel's bio from 2009 ... 15 years of experience in the financial aid and student financing industry, including stints on "all three sides of the fence" -- working for

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  , maybe more -- but apart from a few bites of poke, the last time I ate meat ... think the key, for me, is to trick myself. I can’t think of sushi and then reconcile myself to the idea of never eating it again, ever. But I can say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox ... Visitors has a number of benefits, to include skipping the long line of

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Today was the first day of classes at MIT. Once again, the Infinite Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie I love freebies!

  

  Twice a year all of the bloggers essentially get a freebie post. We ... Wednesdays are pretty awesome. My Friday is pretty the opposite of awesome. Oh ... Fluids. This is the class I'm afraid of failing. It's notoriously difficult

  • by Snively '11
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... written here is from my own personal experience or the advice of others. If ... ” award – Walking around is, in my opinion, the most enjoyable method of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  of did them for the last time, and this time it’s different. As a ... into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take[annotation note="In EECS, the Master's requires six classes, but a lot of people end

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  audience places/corners of the Internet that still feel Wholesome and Good ... We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions ... 've been talking about this kind of redesign for the last few years and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  various other news outlets, all of which contributed greatly to the ... the country. But I was outside for every drop. For more of the nitty ... recognize that my smile is independent of my bank account or the label on my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  've been following the MIT blogs, recall the number of times we wrote that ... to the 2019s in anticipation of pi day and many many more here ... Enlightening: History through the Eyes of the Potato from TED-Ed Einstein

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  States; I guess this is just the first small difference in a long line of ... , here in my Notes app on the side of the highway. Well, so be it; I will ... . (I have a lot of feelings about many things.) Is the person I am

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

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  cannon blast and the faint smell of gunpowder. Because in Seattle, these ... unsuspecting passersby of his beer and chips, and smile for pictures. So if the ... and seaplanes. Of course. The nautical flavor of Seattle isn't too

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... minutes of cute animal vids Delete all the phone screenshots you don’t use ... ambidextrous Drink water Rank the letters of the alphabet Make a list of all of

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a freshman Getting a P+ isn't just for frosh anymore.

  

  contemplating the prospect of having a class on Junior/Senior P/D/F. You get to do this with any two regular classes of your choice during your senior year--the ... the tenths place)! But if I got a B in any one of them it would stay the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  they want to see you fail managing others' envy

  

  other people. The change wasn’t one of moral goodness but self ... texted him about all the good things happening—maybe that had felt like ... into the root of her resentment—but she’s unafraid to make that angsty

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  banning the recruitment of transgender people to the military. While the ... of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past ... history of military training; indeed, the MIT charter specifies that the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  's, and C's do."] ABC/NR. [/annotation] For me, it came in the fall of my ... "]machine learning[/annotation] algorithms, and the minutiae of [annotation note="6 ... .004, Computation Structures"]what happens inside the processor of a computer

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  There Goes My Baby The first music video from the MIT Logs.

  

  your head...but it's a good one!) To find out more about the Logs ... As it says in my introduction, I used to sing in the MIT Logarhythms (an all-male a cappella group), and still keep up with the group as a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V ... , and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some "Special Edition" cards, adding a little something extra to a few of the

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... teams found the coin within a few hours of starting the hunt, they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007