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• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  senior at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where is majors in ... laboratory of Drew Endy, now an assistant professor of bioengineering at ... last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  important thing to know is that radians, like degrees, are a way of measuring ... angles and degrees are easy: one-eighth of a circle, or [latex]45^{\circ ... number. At some point in high school, I had 100 digits of tau memorized

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  saturated and shouldn’t I use my college degree to get one of those well ... with the notion of “half”, I did a zig-zag that still partitioned the page into two equal areas. The teacher, who by this time of the school

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  dear kuya i promise this post is mostly in english

  

  makes calling people back at home hard to schedule. i have memories of ... the tagalog word for "older brother". tagalog does not have a lot of gendered language, but this is an exception; the counterpart of kuya is ate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab, one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says ... The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  honest account, even if it’s overwhelming at times. Please take care of ... , on-campus resources at the end of the article, as well as some notes if ... questions at the early half of my recovery, I know it would have been

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... As Technology Review’s 2007 Top Young Innovator of the Year ... problems.” While he admits that he wouldn’t jump out of a plane

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  aren't expecting. I plan on doing a bit of that myself actually, so hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the ... completely worth it: Did you hear the voices at the end of the video ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  ZigZag Episode 7 A new episode features Commencement highlights and an interview with the party button guys.

  

  Episode 7 of MIT's video podcast ZigZag is out now. Stories include ... from the beautiful roof deck of McCormick Hall; it's worth watching just ... Jeff Silva of Academic Media Production Services (AMPS), who makes each

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  that he offered to share:       Hope to see you both -- and the rest of ... deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... read our inaugural Deep Fried Taste of Kenmore Square event hosted by my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  , Yan's vocabulous wit, and Anna's inspirational eloquence, I can offer you a byte (or a few) from my bottomless cache of labyrinthine analogies ... . Regardless of whether you go to MIT or elsewhere, your intrinsic drive and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... spring here! Yet, despite all those years of dreaming and planning, none of

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again ... the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  places an upper limit on the diameter of a telescope at around 10 meters ... 's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... something of it. It's been weird, standing at the intersection of media ... more time in the present with my friends, even if it means at the cost of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022