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  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  lecture. It is noon. Danny B.D. ‘15 You ask for a studfinder. I give you a ... above you. You’re hungry. Danny B.D. ‘15 You need to pee. You enter the ... pset. You open your email. Danny B.D. ‘15 The UA finds itself in a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the blogs at twenty some reflections, plus an index of posts

  

  mile markers by Danny B.D. '15 The After by Kirsten L. '15 Three ... to blog, I genuinely wasn't sure of the response we'd get. It's a cold

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  doubled. My list of responsibilities tripled. And this is where I learned the value of my MIT education. Around that time, the CEO and COO began ... ” feature. One day the CEO casually asked me to estimate our market potential

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  You don’t have to be a founder move slow and fix things

  

  extracurriculars. And I cared about them enough that I took on some responsibility to ... Hydrant is a SIPB project, we encourage our members to take on roles like being a Hydrant maintainer, one of the many roles in our many projects. We

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 29, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Random Hall ‘13s Life plans, advice, and stories from last year’s Random Hall graduates.

  

  Box CEO Drew Houston ‘05’s commencement speech, at 2:45:42, transcribed by ... responses: Melissa H. ‘13, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (course ... ’ll major in but which you can envision might play a role in your education

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 20, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Brief History of Cars on Fire at MIT You didn't think I would miss an anniversary, did you?

  

  If you're the kind of person who remembers to look up once in a while, it's not that uncommon to wander MIT's campus and find yourself wondering: How did THAT…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  response was amazing. Submissions poured in—from upperclassmen, from

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  group of MIT students in the '80s. Adam's undergrad advisor and the CEO of ... Adam's CEO finished undergrad here in 1979, then continued on to do his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  statement on the role of diversity in MIT’s educational mission, I would like ... Stanford, IBM, and Aeris Communications, which addresses (1) the vital role ... – and we value one another’s contributions in every role. Together we

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  your life, maybe thousands of miles away. You’re about to be responsible ... will learn just how big a role luck plays in success, and you will learn

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Note To Self Please don't forget this.

  

  tendencies – liking to play a role in deciding how things progress, and are run ... responsible for something doesn’t mean that you can’t help out, or give your

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Watch '93 at 11:30 was the message. '93 was the new dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Out Loud! On teaching/making/producing educational videos and why it's so much fun

  

  real responsibility was memorizing and delivering lines. Not to mention ... couple final lines for my video. My only real responsibility as a host was ... responsible for various aspects of a production.” Basically, that means a PA is

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  told them about how media has played such a huge role in shaping who I am ... my family’s role in raising me, to avoid discussing the fact that I ... the most genuine response I could give, and I like writing stories far

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Two thousand students walk into a Zoom call summer hssp: now virtual™

  

  very responsibility-averse, and I specifically avoided any named roles ... 's coronavirus response, we had to cancel both programs. And this made me pretty ... actually had responsibility for, and I'm not sure what happened, but somehow

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  expect a decent response. NO you can't eat that crayon. WHY? It isn't food, and it might make you sick. NO you did not get the leading role in the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Flying Close to the Sun a semester of fire

  

  [/annotation] and mostly played a helper role. The first co-authors put forth the idea ... it was David’s and another co-author Alex’s responsibility ... Arts at that point, I took on a publicity/social role on a whim.  This

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Speaking in MITese A language all our own.

  

  variety of roles, from peacekeepers to mentors to providers of free food ... responsible for providing adult leadership and some extent of oversight to each ... employees responsible for overseeing the upkeep and condition of each dorm

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  Now playing: “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles It was a Thursday afternoon in New York City. It was also mid-December, so “afternoon” was code for “depressingly early…

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  responses of six students to four survey questions, which have been minimally ... involved on campus, taking on roles in my dorm and in clubs, and found a ... explore my interests at MIT and carefully refine my application responses

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024