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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  backseat of a lesser sized yellow overpriced mini beast until I arrived at ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  manipulate and assemble nanowires at the National Institute of Standards and ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table ... and poked at a few of them, just to see what would happen. My un ... on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... an onsite visit at a local biopharmaceutical company with a group of ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... . Mountains, denser houses than I had imagined. Lots of farmland at the foot of ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... , analyzing some of the coolest art I’ve ever seen at the outdoor deCordova, and ... home and no energy left at the end of the day to do anything but make the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  into tech when I know it's not what I want to do at the end of the day ... experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned at MIT, if you even think you're interested in something, you owe it to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  in something here, you know that you're capable of that skill at a top ... when your biggest worry is a math final at the end of the month, you ... I just turned nineteen, and the journey billed as the first year of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and ... around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite ... so far.     By the time I took the pictures, that evening’s denizens of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  a half hour’s reach of my parents at any given time. Now I had to fly ... offered at the aquarium, then visit for the aesthetics- the dimly lit ... John Harvard Statue at some point in our tour, this being the origin of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ... 't make sense to major in, say, Literature, at MIT (which I sort of agree ... HASS requirement. How many different languages are offered at MIT? 9

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  ? As Purple Team explained, a 3.5 degrees celsius rise in temperature of ... running. I began screaming. At first, it might have been a scream of joy ... . However, it is quite heavy, so that at the end of a loop, the stand operator

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  most of my time doing math. I haphazardly dyed my hair at home and ... perhaps it was because our school was 80% Caucasian and in the heart of ... is true that the white boys at my high school usually dated other white

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  team. A whole lot of smart people weighed in, including the folks at ... , network neutrality is a matter of ensuring basic democratic equality (or at ... ’s continued pursuit of neutrality (or at least the appearance of neutrality

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016