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  Application Reading Season Kickoff We are indeed looking for human beings in every sense, not just looking for numbers.

  

  We had our reading season kickoff meeting today, which checked in at ... was pleased to find that I wasn't too far off in any of my ratings and ... " with the rest of the office is already pretty good. Go instinct! I was

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  ’m almost at water level, and run my hand across the surface of the uneven ... ’ll text my friend Nathan at some ungodly hour of the night, and drag him to ... past it like some of the giant ideas in this area. I had no beginning

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 7 Days

  

  wanted to put myself at the forefront of that field. I started doing ... of my friends, one that I met at TechCrunch DisruptNY, messaged me with ... of Shark Tank in my dorm room late at night. The Sharks were some of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it was at 14 during that time or at 20 sitting outside the stud as when I ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... look at how the sketch is going. That's why some of the details and ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  industry. Thank you to Rosario and Hilda at Softtek for taking care of ... While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... (likely) pause. Speaking of patterns, Patrones Hermosas or Beautiful

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  can only capture, at most, one ten-thousandth of the grace that Gloria ... TFP (an ETLA) was handing out in Lobby 7 and I wondered about the rate of ... Newtonian fluid). I was in the middle of calculating the kLa when I grew

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  at my blog. If that applies to you, um, Hi. 14.41 Public Finance and ... , the author of the class textbook!!) format: two 1.5 hour lectures a week ... externalities (which "arise whenever the actions of one party make another party

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  ,726,400 SOS When I look back at the blogger I was at the beginning of freshman ... I had started off with the goal of piecing together my life at MIT ... things to happen at certain time frames. But what we see in the stories of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  . I had applied to a Summer Research Fellowship at the University of ... expanding my horizons and becoming at least somewhat skilled in the realm of C ... playing skills at all hours of the day). But I think I would have been ok

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  cash out at the end of the game in exchange for money–$10,000, $20 ... , chasing the aurora at Tufts on a random Thursday. Each of these memories is ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one of the 4 midterms. I lucked out and squeezed a high enough grade on our ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  include at least one photo from every month of the year, and they ... the west of there! July I spend two weeks in July at some warehouses ... There’s a lot of things that happen to us that we simply don’t think

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Study Break on the Roof! We had an EMT study break on the roof of the tallest building in Cambridge!

  

  she works - the roof of the Green Building!  The Green Building is the tallest building in Cambridge - 19 stories tall and on stilts at 277 feet!  She brought up her giant telescope and we looked at the moon, Mars

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summertime Science Got that summertime, summertime science...

  

  feat of making science unbelievably boring. So while I was at home this ... : (This is how I brainstorm most of my doodle entries, for those of you who ... , Parks and Rec, and the Oregon Ducks). Another thing on the list of things

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  hours of my life. Eric '14 and I tried our hand at some astrophotography ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical ... set), two hours total in the van, and four hours out at Wallace

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  Captcha is the box of wavy text at the bottom of the page, just above the ... subject line? Will he show a can of the eponymous meat-like substance (now with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this tendency of opening too many windows so my computer crashed and I had to

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... place off campus at the MIT Endicott House. Various presentations were

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005