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  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  (webcast embedded from commencement website. I'll return to this blog ... graduating), in the embedded webcast above.  On Wednesday night, I had the ... destabilization, of an inevitable shift in your identity, of a sense of who, what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  September and I’m not at MIT registering for classes and trying to squeeze in some fun before chaos resumes again. In case you missed it, thousands of ... science in K-12, but for a number of reasons (including the architecture

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... create classes in everything from "Alebgra 1" to "The Atomic Science of Space Weapons" and everything in between. You can check out some of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  three feet per second, and in last decade scientists have begun to ... station. But Prof. Jeffrey Karp, an investigator in the Harvard-MIT Health ... immune system, and tested these nifty band-aids on pig intestine in the lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... [annotation note="the U belongs in labour!!"]spelling that feels slightly off ... boiled alive in 90 deg C) writing the date the ‘wrong way’ (so apparently

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  weekly. Classes (not including in class time) [annotation note ... schedule and I'm just feeling very disappointed in myself for not living up ... stipend hasn't come in yet and I already paid off my summer housing so I am

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  't take too long to finish; you can even finish the game in one sitting. As a tip, buy processors and memory in a 3 to 7 ratio. A Dark Room. This ... two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a ... sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  only things in my room were a bed, bookshelf, and keyboard. I kept it ... security card) into my closet, which stayed in a state of constant chaos ... ."]opening[/annotation] of the closet door instantly spiked my blood pressure levels. So in an

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for ... It's interesting that I've never been even remotely involved in anything political, and in all such situations would always be the outsider

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... half the time! I stood somewhere in between – respectful of their ... equation describing a particle in a gravitational field"]a Schrödinger

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... interview? A: You can find your interviewer's information by logging in to

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  Danny B. '15 is an 8-Flex/6-3 major with aspirations in both fields ... to be part shameless plug for my website CourseRoad, and part ... of software to help MIT life in some way. Without much else to do, I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of ... Blendie looks like an ordinary blender, it is in fact a voice activated blender -- with a catch. Blenders don't speak English, so in order to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. Click through for the extended answer.

  

  Does MIT Offer Application Fee Waivers? In a word, yes. As a matter ... have no real interest in MIT from applying (the ones who do not wish to attend but just want to see if they can get in). How do I know if I should

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... 's Department Open House was great - freshmen interested in the field got to talk

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  lived in Jenny’s current room during orientation week before the Next House Housing Lottery switched up everyone’s rooms. In the class ... renumbering classes relatively soon so this might become obsolete in a few

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!

  

  At this point, the admission website must appear to be "all about CPW ... enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a ... weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 6, 2010