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  Let There Be Prefrosh! And let them build ALL the things!

  

  Just one year ago, I had arrived at MIT as a prefrosh, ready to start ... -orientation program (FPOP) known as FUP, where I got to do all sorts of cool community ... so many exciting things going on, and best of all, THERE ARE SO MANY

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! how to something something

  

  blogger committee - composed of communications staff and some senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications. We laughed. We cried. We got ... the anatomically correct shape of a heart. We <3 her too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn ... us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went ... blue mask. As of today, ~4 people living within 50 feet of me had some

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th Bomb Wing with a fleet of B-1B bombers as well as the 317th Airlift group

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of ... meetings for most of these groups. Not because I don't want to, but because ... commit a...healthy...amount of time to extra-curriculars, but outside of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  have been destroyed. From myself and all of my colleagues in Admissions ... and prayers are with you. We know that for some of you, it may be weeks ... helicopters carry their relatively miniscule payloads of water (relative to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  A few updates for the Class of 2011... Tonight MIT students will be ... (EST). Start thinking of questions you might have for actual MIT students ... student tonight, there are plenty of other opportunities to do so. (We

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An IAP in Texas, chapter one Reporting on location from Fort Worth.

  

  Worth, Texas area, where I'll be spending all of IAP (and the summer) interning at the headquarters of North America's second-largest railroad, BNSF ... the home of my boss-to-be while he and his family are vacationing. I had

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  -out entry in the midst of studying for finals. Go read Mollie's blog; she's a senior, so she doesn't have finals. Today, Mitra awoke me with a knock at ... posters from the walls of my rooms, so I e-mailed the '07 with a description

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  who stop at yellow lights, sums of squares, Craig Armstrong, navy blue ... post a biography of myself. I wrote a list of things I do and don't like ... , so here's a revised version: Here goes: I'm Mitra, class of 2007

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  !). At the end of a recent class, she took us on a tour of the Language Lab ... :-) A couple of classes I'm paying special attention to: 21F.019 ... of MIT's Teaching & Learning Lab and Bernd is the associate

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  They’re not just regular artists… ...they're Artists in Residence.

  

  of the TATS CRU will be at MIT throughout the week, giving guest ... than 40 years. Some of the previous Artists in Residence have included ... Toni Morrison, Author Gregory Hines, Dancer Several of my friends had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  time I dropped it at a bus stop in the middle of northern Italy one night ... my pocket. Both my hands were occupied holding the rest of me aloft, so ... "]was[/annotation] a Pixel 3a, top-of-the-line about four years ago, and middle-of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  would have said at the end of last semester. I still like the time ... at learning from books -- and I'm very jealous of them! 3. Katie '10 ... Last time, Jon asked, What kind of high school student were you? Did

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  syrup. sorry !"]maple syrup.[/annotation]At risk of sounding like an ... 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 / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... research.[/annotation] Mind you, how could I not? Over 90% of MIT students ... undergraduate research, also what this happens to be about."]UROP[/annotation] at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... if we add more vectors?) Let’s look at the tiles. Each of the tiles is ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  just vibing tough times out here

  

  have had to learn anyway, at some point along the way: so many of us are ... , to feel several different kinds of grief all at once, to pay even 10 ... One of the things that MIT teaches you really well (among many others

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  at a distance. Here’s a short (and apologetically low quality) video of ... is at a final presentation and tech fair type of event:   But ... I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  called my parents, who are looking at houses. lots of moving parts ... quick dispatch from my new room on the first floor of senior haus ... years of taking a lot of required/introductory/foundational classes that i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016