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  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  usual pork belly in my Miso ramen, though). We then went to Nike to buy ... because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  to the last times in my life, especially because I've realized recently ... waited in the car, promising that I'd visit again soon. I had even been ... Campus party I went to was, nor what the last meal that I cooked in my hall

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  those lines that are not written in English, note that Colin read them in ... English translation in brackets. https://youtu.be/dGiehdTV5Ok   Class ... , followed by “yo, 你怎么样?”, which means “yo, what’s up?” in Mandarin Chinese

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• 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 nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often happens when I am not in a place, I am deeply missing Random and my friends

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in Moscow on March 12, 1992, into a demographic hole created by World ... ’s financial shakiness was magnified in my family by my parents’ youth and ... salaries and some help from the government, was just enough to buy half a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  assembling her course schedule, picking up her textbooks - and buying a ... allows cats in four of its 11 undergraduate dorms, a rare amenity that ... experiment at MIT several years ago has now taken hold in the campus culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Well, at least you didn’t fail, right? A tale of mystery, wonder, and the worst possible way to handle too much work…

  

  tests and a pset to turn in on Wednesday. 2:03 PM - Roll over, reach for ... that if I ever buy a half acre of land, I will build a deck on it à la JD ... commandments (as sent in his last email to the class), "Thou shalt not tool* from

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us buys a bouquet of flowers from safeway and we put them in makeshift vases ... time for a summer update. i'm in seattle! again! this time i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  . They buy blocks of tickets for events in the Boston area and offer them ... When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  me, not that he took my exam and then handed it in. Of course, that would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his sixth year of German, whereas I'm in my sixth week of German. He had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Brass Rat

  

  process begins in freshman year with the highly competitive process of ... students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one company actually shuts down their factory for the one week each year of prime MIT ring-buying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  's a tradition to get your ring in your sophomore year to commemorate ... at 7:30 to let everyone trickle in. There was a bit of a line when we got there--nothing too bad, though. They tapped us in to make sure that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... mathematics. What are the chances that at some point in the last five years somebody in the UK dreamt that a loved one had died, only for that loved one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Quantifying Angst the most course 6 thing we've ever done

  

  Three weeks ago in 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming), we had to ... to implement takes in any text file and spits out a list of tuples of all the words in that file and their respective frequencies of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... sit together in a darkened lounge and watch shadows of Jupiter’s moons ... (Course 18). I’ve sat transfixed in random places in the hallway many times

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My advisor won $3 million Unraveling the mysteries of the universe, and helping Anna make life choices

  

  , “in the past”, studied “lattice gauge theory, magnetic monopoles and ... investigating inflation in “brane world” models.” His MIT faculty page says that ... fundamental laws of nature?” What you won’t find out from these websites

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Going Social Thinking about MIT Admissions and social media.

  

  "everyone was in it." His brother was a meaty metalhead (and consequently a ... Rolled - and it was a very different website then. There were no photos, no ... . Students could not friend students at other colleges. In fact, most colleges

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 3 Connecting with your Educational Counselor

  

  contact information for your EC is to log in to your my.mit.edu account ... applicants to the ECs in their area. Some ECs interview for just one school so you and several of your friends may get the same EC while in really

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  UROP in the O'Connor Lab. The lab's a part of the chemistry department ... involves techniques in molecular biology as well as biochemistry and organic chemistry. I came across the lab's website last year when I was looking for a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  explanation, including a circuit diagram and drivers on his website, in case ... iteration in a series of upgrades to his dorm room door lock. Now because MIT ... collaborate. Now, at the new Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., he's trying to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006