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• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and sunny and there's a high of 73 degrees tomorrow. i haven't shared pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication of Kresge Auditorium at MIT, was the only piece Aaron Copland ever ... many pictures of myself on this blog recently... but perhaps that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  -intentionally resolving to “nap” a bunch of times, creating a period of essentially no schedule at all, and then trying to fix that by listening to the advice of ... yourself of society and Vitamin D and disrupting your circadian rhythms, not

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Tick was created as a mascot for the newsletter of a comics shop in Boston. In my daily perusal of Wikipedia I came ... want to fabricate really bad, fake narratives loosely based on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Lab talk/tour this afternoon...) Ben has been out of the office all week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... answering many of your financial aid questions. You (or whoever is filling out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop ... ;n> without going through all the work of actually being <n>? Build a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistical thinking. From Kahneman's Nobel biography: The standard example of a ... will save 200 lives, the other has a 1/3 chance of saving all 600 lives and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  And speaking of awesome MIT alumna... Later this month, Heidemarie ... in space when STS-115 launches. More than one-third of the nation ... total of more than 15,000 hours in space. (Check out the MIT Astronaut

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  Swagfest Battle of the Fakes Space Team and Screaming Water War How ... [esidence] EX[ploration Period] again (including the herculean task of scheduling ... few days ago I had a lot of fun chilling with a few of you at Giant

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  the quality of people here at The Institute. Judd Logan is yet another ... because of the people. On another note, doesn't the name "Judd Logan" sound like a super hero's day name? Kind of like Clark Kent by day Superman by

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  --even data collected from the test itself shows this.   BEWARE OF FAKE ... This post began with my long-standing hatred of Myers-Briggs tests ... periods of introspection, helped in part by taking a Myers

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  I’m a food blogger now enjoy reading through 700 words of personal digression to get to the recipes

  

  ="only REAL CANADIAN MAPLE SYRUP THOUGH, none of you Americans' terrible fake ... myself a glass of water, and taking ready-to-eat baby carrots out of the fridge. Learning to cook was the one thing I hadn't crossed off all of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I'll share a few of my thoughts and observations after having seen 21 this weekend (now the #1 movie in the country): Lots of folks have been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Degrees of Separation (Anthony Michael Hall's character in the film) Sam ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ... Of course, it's nothing new for a film or other work of fiction to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  leading to the Bachelor of Science in Art and Design degree ... all the schools and majors and degrees if you are curious.) As you ... the entire School of Architecture+Planning is pretty small. The school

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  length you need. Most of the time, these are cute. They fall into the category of cultural differences like "toilets are heated and have a fake ... 're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  ! Caltech's 'prank' this year was pretty sweet - they make a fake issue of the ... MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since I basically spent most of my weekend with her, I figured that it

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Exploring Classes a guide

  

  a number of different course planning websites (and apps!) to choose ... " /] Firehose is one of the most popular schedule planning tools at MIT. You can ... at MIT, and it lets you plan out your classes over a longer period of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why It Pays…

  

  meant downing gallons of coffee, but that math- or science-related major might just be worth it -- in terms of job outlook and high starting pay, that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  IM sports totally rock

  

  ; Aeronautics/Astronautics 1 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1   Alumni goal: Matt MacLeod   I came out of last night's IM hockey game just ... 'll have to take a picture of it and post it), and I'm so proud of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004