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  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I ... ’s why I stayed at the Institute, and why I’d recommend it to other nerds ... ’ll help those of you considering your match with the Institute before you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? You can create your own motivational, or de ... noticed that the taxi was actually offering free rides to anybody who joined ... rings the dorm doorbell, press the "door open" button. Sometimes they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una ... communication. Not only are we struggling to convey our own thoughts to others in ... class time as an exercise in functional communication. Story and movie

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Vive la France!

  

  I’m about to head off for a two week in vacation in Paris, Rennes, and Bordeaux. In the meantime, you can check out the MIT France Program, one of MIT’s…

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  Apple "Other" Winner: Samantha Burke, Plonge de pomme, C4 Second place

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  life that inhabits the Institute after dark. Anyway, I promised John that ... the MIT dining system, I'm a prototypical deviant from the Institute ... an actual MIT Press Bookstore across the street, the Coop sells all

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  useful, is a badge of honor. drop - (1) v. To de-register for a subject ... Institute Requirement. A class that all undergraduates must pass in order to ... technical field. A badge of honor at the Institute, e.g., "Nerd Pride". (2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  de Florez Fund for Humor sponsored this free (to the MIT community

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  Tuesday morning, I excused myself from de-insectifying MATLAB scripts for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into concrete sidewalk grids, swollen with rain delicately infused with the brine

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  air-insulated Van de Graaff generator (donated to the Museum by MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  rock. Pictures and information from: http://www.dw-world.de

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ,9171,1655718,00.html Cordially Ysabel de León Assistant to Professor Diaz Here ... Theater september 12. tix available through harvard book store: http://www.harvard.com/events/press ... Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  , the orchestra played Debussy’s Clair de Lune and a piece from E.T. the ... orchestra performed music from three John Williams film scores: E.T., Close ... universe.” During the ET soundtrack, he bobbed his head to the music. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  Institute (RPI). After graduation he returned to Cuba to found the Mechanical Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department ... 1959, the National Inventors Council offered $5,000 to anyone who could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  pretty psyched to see just how cool the PE offerings at MIT are! A small ... to de-stress and take my mind off academics for a little while. Plus ... classes on offer, that I'm surprised that students need to be incentivized

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  French. She also wrote a book, Les Institutions de physique which she had ... but used terms like dy/dx. In his book, Nova Methodus pro Maximis et

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night. May 15-19: ISEF @ LA This ... out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... . ISEF will take up lots of my time, so I won't get to do much else in LA

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  Google Form out to the residents, and here are the responses! (a la Humans ... night.” - Marie de A. ‘18 (not pictured, but the top of the doorframe

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... were modeled after European cities with islands such as the Ile de Cite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  Souter; scientists like Edwin Hubble, Robert J. van de Graaff and Brian ... , Honolulu, Hawaii, is a senior at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010