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  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal ... history of the MIT Department of Economics and its graduates. MIT ... MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  Sunday night. There are many hundreds of thousands of women across the ... .R.O.C. (the People's Republic of Clay) was generous enough to invite me to Clay's Boston concert. The Bank of America Pavillion is right off the Silver

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “That’s one small step for man; one giant leap for mankind” ...the cow jumped over the moon....

  

  To celebrate the anniversary of the first manned moon landing, Google ... , you can see what the moon is made of ;-) (thanks to diana for pointing this out) Freshman year, one of my classes was actually taught by former

  • by Bryan
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about ... year at MIT. I think fondly of that year, despite all the difficulties ... ='courtesy of my dorm East Campus setting up a ropes rig in the courtyard

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what the f*** am i doing this summer still don't know if i'm going abroad or not lol

  

  the feasibility of traveling to Israel. it said that we should expect to ... State Department travel warning was at level 3, the prospect of travel ... would calm down by mid-May. at the end of April, I had my training weekend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 12, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  loftblogging 2: acoustic boogaloo turns out that at mit, even the non-academics are incredibly hard and deeply rewarding

  

  week of school, and then write about it. And here we are, in the fourth ... immediately bought the making-of book, already dreaming about all the things I ... 't do too badly. One of the features that immediately caught my eye was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  Meet Edmund Jones, a member of the Admissions Office staff (and Sam ... photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ... 's the blog entry? I'm not seeing it. Are you busy or something? When you

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  . The Land of MIT. And its inhabitants, the Students, look like this ... homo sapiens. Actually, if you took one person from each of the planets ... up. But The Land of MIT is a new planet altogether. And here's a quick

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  introduce its attendees to the world of transportation, as seen through the eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in ... idea behind freshman advising seminars is one of the student and advisor

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  amounts of free time. Let's start off with the Center for Talent ... 's Talent Identification Program offers the option of either taking classes ... , check out Questbridge, which offers help with the costs of summer programs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... total of 6 years.) Besides the time-savings, I am excited about this ... with one big project that requires actual application of the ideas. I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California. Meeting location: the beautiful home of an MIT alum. Tuesday Miami. With

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  and lost. This was probably one of the best learning experiences of my ... race isn't the end of the world. I got my first B+. This in my opinion ... have received a C+. I had a lot of fun. One of the things that I feared

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Poaching Imagination Just a few more hours.

  

  In just a few hours, you'll know whether or not you have the option of spending four years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Yes, that's right. In just a few hours, a simple flick of a cursor, a

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a variety of fall-themed Trader Joe’s snacks (the maple syrup fudge is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry ... the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we should get on that. Anyway, the point of this entry is the tables. I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick Harris. Other times, another kind of life lesson comes from the calm and ... rediscovering the meaning of the word “passion”. You see, when you’re playing a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop ... bottle. The water tasted strangely of swimming pool. Weird. All that was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I ... day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... particularly stunning occasions come to mind: -As part of the Discover

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009