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• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe ... character-building stories are for bloggers who secretly want to be Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... physics capstone, which pairs you with one lab partner for the entire class ... always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... quirks before. For example, many know that MIT’s buildings aren’t named ... circle for only a moment before diverging). 9/10 [caption id

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  , you can still sign up for virtual information sessions and tours here ... For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... -1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  reflection on the past year for a while now. A lot has happened in the past ... fingers would freeze up and suddenly the activation energy required to start ... forgetting that they have died. For every 30 minutes that I forget, there are

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  I linked up here. So I was wondering about the opportunities for ... ask me questions any time; you don't just have to wait for a blog entry ... I have a "me-them" mentality... If MIT was a nice match for me, wouldn

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... story which could be improved. Finally, the author came up with a few ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  experiment co-founded by Kip for gravitational wave detection. The set-up ... to give a colloquium at MIT. Kip, for the biology students reading this ... the lottery for free dinners with distinguished members of the physics

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

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  election year. It's business as usual for most seasoned Americans but, for me ... voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... opening up the backs of the machines and counting up the votes at the end of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Al Kwon ‘08: Researching drug delivery Al Kwon, a Junior majoring in Biology, talks about some of his really exciting work…

  

  pending patents and is in the National Inventors Hall of Fame for his ... Prize” for engineers) and author of over 900 papers, Professor ... until the end to see his really great advice for prefrosh! Melis: Can you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  'm a little too ADD for straight up productivity. I have a hundred ... 're still alive, dying for fall semester to start? from hearing about how hard ... grade like back in high school? for example, were you a straight a student

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  student(s) is (are) responsible for the conduct of her/his guests including ... responsible for their own conduct as well as the conduct of their guests ... applied for improvement for my 12th this year).i am an NTSE scholar.since i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  Unfortunately for me, I've been hit with what's hopefully some sort ... for the all-you-can-eat lunch buffet. On the upside, we've been ... classes you take can be applied toward the degree requirements for both

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  tonight and give a free midnight concert all over campus except for Building ... ." Unfortunately, since we were too lazy to wait another 35 seconds for the light to ... . Just plain "WATE" is the signal for some unholy combination of the three

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  ended up as a combination refresher course for some topics and really ... some point in my grad school life, I’ll have to come up with ideas and be ... have opinions, in the area I decide to research. In A Guide for the Young

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
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