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• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  because there was a fake statue of David like 100 feet away. There is ... DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... further and now must be stabilized with cables. For those of you just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  light is rotated a bit, but not the full 90 degrees required for all of it ... light the full 90 degrees.) G: 50% (all of the green subpixels are letting ... . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... complete my master's degree in Comparative Media Studies. A few weeks ago, on ... . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  , hopefully this format makes sense. I'm donating half of the income that I ... been recently. Also, a full text description of the images is at the end of the post for accessibility! — [visually_hidden]Querida Ana

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  knowledge of what it entailed prior to MIT. And to some degree, you're never ... , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing for grad programs. Everybody applies to basically the same set of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports ... be (of course, I’m not generalizing across airlines – some carriers are ... two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  dish under 375 degree heat. A modest serving of leftover bread stuffing ... all over the dessicated grids of my post-semester calendar: 1.Baked ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  . It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad ... problem, except that 1) it was 45 degrees and raining, and 2) I had no idea

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external ... what feels like eternity without actually getting all of the pus out, so ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  degree of expertise about Japan that may have a significant impact on their ... entry including the secrets of how to live your life, get into MIT and ... from throughout the United States to engage in an intensive study of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  theory and verify the age of the universe. Smoot received B.S. degrees in ... familiar, it's probably because you've seen the work of his distant relative, Oliver Smoot '62, while walking across the Harvard Bridge. As part of a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  Name: Anjum Sharma Hometown: Perkasie, PA Degree and Minor: 15 with a ... time with Matt McGann and the rest of the advising group freshman year. I didn't like the way the bobas tasted so I started shooting them out of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... teenager i could walk in shorts in 40 degree (fahrenheit) weather without any issue, whereas currently the weather in boston is around 50 degrees and i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  whatever classes they want, within the constraint of satisfying their degree ... I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and ... experiences with Course 6-9 and give an overview of what the major is like

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  Although most of the time I coast through my days in lab in a whirlwind of science glee, I have to admit that every once in a while, the lab ... -- and yesterday, the complexity apparently got the best of me. When I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  , particularly one with a large population of graduate students, means that ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary ... common data set, over 60% of the classes at MIT have 19 people or fewer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  My last post was on my gap year, which was wild, full of writing, and very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... someone will feel inspired, and we can dream of what we'll be doing when the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  can speak for all of MIT in saying that our thoughts and hearts are with ... so happy to meet so many of you. I hope you all make the right decision and come to MIT =) If any of you saw the Wall Street Journal today, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  . Matt Damon was too. Yes, when he got up on stage, one of the first things ... ’s just put that out there. I mean, I’ve seen the list of previous ... of the World Bank. President of the United States. And who did you get

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016