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  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  I moved back to San Francisco and started medical school at my dream ... We were asked to write an entry for the anniversary of the blogs, a ... from MIT. First things first: I have now actually been out of college for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  warehouses for two weeks (wherein I drove a Toyota Forerunner in San Francisco ... effective. So, we should really be taking more advantage of that in robotics ... .832: Underactuated Robotics. Help I’m surrounded by grad students :O one of them

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) in computational materials ... those opportunities unfold in different directions to varying degrees of ... year ago, and it was bizarre again this past summer, to see some of my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  Los Angeles, I took a Greyhound bus to San Francisco where I attended my ... great degree of structure to it, six years of grade school, followed by ... , to study at MIT. In 2017, this ongoing chapter of my life promises to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  ’m not faking it. Everybody’s faking it. Which is just another way of ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline. If you’d rather not spend hours

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  to Sacramento for the first central meeting of my California trip. Over the next ten days I’ll be in Sacramento, San Francisco, Lafayette, and ... to our Central Meeting there hosted by Dean of Admissions, Stuart

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  advertises 33 majors for the Bachelor of Science degree, including a few ... in the 90s, with the advent of the sans serif graphic identity, that we ... Preface In the process of moving our office from its inaugural

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] You Have a 50/50 Chance a guest post from my mama

  

  up at 0400 in the morning on the streets of LA or San Diego for a ... all of the spotlight for this blogpost."]Maybe, but true.[/annotation] All the years of Camille studying, taking tests, volunteering, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  of an undergraduate college degree. My friend, who I love very dearly ... difficult to enjoy a higher quality of life without a diploma), and MIT is not ... this one. :)] The other day I was hanging out with one of my best

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . Luckily TextWrangler was able to resuscitate the text of the file sans ... students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco ... weekend, please join the 10K event. We leave from the eastern end of Golden ... lives of men, women, and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Even though

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  the end of their school day. I then kept driving south to San Diego ... :00PM - California Academy of Math and Science, a nonresidential public ... students about MIT. The goal of these presentations is to demystify the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  by Chih-Han Sah (published in 1979 by Fearon Pitman in San Francisco ... 18.304 (discrete math) is one of two communication intensive (CI-M, where the M means it’s within my major) seminars I need to take as part of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  (For those of you just tuning in, I'm Mollie. I graduated from MIT in 2006 with degrees in brain and cognitive sciences and biology, and I ... 's government, and was the captain of the cheerleading squad. When I was a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Degree (graduate) and Bachelor of Science in Course I. Civil Engineering B ... a total of 984 students were international. Three times more students ... efforts, the number of international students doubled in just ten years. 1

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Dissecting emotion what is feeling

  

  is not real, because I can sit in front of my text editor for an hour ... out of campus due to COVID. At once it feels like fourteen months has ... not real, because— Two. Here's the context of all this, okay? Two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at ... . There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to ... Truman's blog. A-ha! Hacking at MIT! There have been a bunch of entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  . Being happy, to a degree, is part of your health--in particular your ... the difficulty of adjusting to MIT called How to Fail. Since then, I ... or sad is sort of like being full or hungry. When I’m really full

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  everything i made this year (mostly)

  

  , whatever you want to call it, with 5 degrees of freedom (aka it can move the ... to push any of them over the finish line, mostly due to lack of time and mental space. In an effort to record at least some of what happened

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 1, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  how. By day, I work in South San Francisco. Last night, I took 101N through San Francisco, across the Bay (not Golden Gate) Bridge into Oakland ... , strolled down the quaint streets of Berkeley, covered my eyes through War of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005