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  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  probably need to keep looking. Try new things. Keep investigating and ... simply sufficient.  Don’t limit yourself by asking what do I need to do (which can also be read “what is the minimum that I need to do”) in order

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  bike riding under the Big Sail, which I need to remember to try when I ... fundraisers and creating petitions to re-emphasize the need for MIT to implement ... action on the issues that are important to us. We all need to step up for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT ... science or engineering. Then you get some who don't care so much about ... theoretical worlds in their heads, and love to know why things work the way they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  , can’t I? Wow! Wow! That feels great! Doesn’t seem to achieve very much ... really exciting, so much to find out about, so much to look forward to, I ... second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  . Where it all began. I will not describe this one much. No need to commute ... neon visitor sticker, as well as the knowledge that I no longer need to ... air to its full potential, I rush to catch the outbound T train. Two

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Have Never Been to Beijing A (loose) translation of the previous post written in Chinese

  

  them :) I have never been to Beijing. Whenever we returned to China, we always went to Shanghai, Nanjing, or Hangzhou, always somewhere in the Jiangsu province area. I remember being able to speak Shanghainese

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about what they've been up to after all this time. One frequent question I get ... 's hard to give a comprehensive answer to that question, but perhaps this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  from the supermarket to a dormitory at MIT. It has lived there ever since ... ago, a fairly lactose-intolerant resident of Random Hall decided to make ... ’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery store, braving and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Applying Sideways How to get in to MIT.

  

  them something they can do that will get them in. Maybe they need to be ... school. Just tell me what I need to do, their eyes implore, and I will ... 's what you need to understand: There is nothing, literally nothing, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  was in desperate need of some de-stressing) then came back to Cambridge to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... dinner held at different colleges where students need to dress in formal

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Policies, Principles, and Protests thinking about responsible citizenship in a time of student protests

  

  right to revoke or defer your offer of admission if your conduct does not ... , advocating for policies to prevent such a shooting from happening again. They ... across the country to join them in protests, including several school

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • February 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to ... have to rush around Boston saying goodbye to people and places that I've known, because I'm staying for another year to finish my Master's degree

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Future Is Grim check it out

  

  There is much hullabaloo around campus here lately as everyone is ... member. He loves MIT, which is no small thing to say considering he knows what it's like to be a student here (he got his PhD in Mathematics here

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 28, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  Kornbluth tells me. I have to agree, that does sound pretty funny. She then ... Chorallaries? Did you know that she is a foodie and loves to try new restaurants in Cambridge and Boston? Did you know that she does needlepoint

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford ... to all the people I’ve met along the way. This place has so much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  remembered helping my (sorority) little (sister) on a project she needed to ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  in the works, but I might need another Yultide for motivation to finish ... , and discarded some of the darker paragraphs—not because I need to censor ... being meta. And now double meta. Now I just need to take a screenshot of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tenets or, my only piece of advice for incoming first-years

  

  overall experience much more enjoyable. Second, it is a good way to start ... choose to take as much of this advice as you would like. I, personally ... campus, eager to experience MIT and everything it has to offer. Many of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  horchata (yummy Mexican drink). I wanted to tell you a little about the last ... lot of a student who used to work in our office, who we'll call "Pink ... 's more rigorous majors, Aero/Astro, and now works for NASA. Goes to show

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004