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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus is quiet summer thoughts and happenings

  

  we’re lame, or because there’s not much to do in the first place. It’s a Friday night, but campus is quiet in the summer. My door is open ... people on the bed and one in my chair, when enter Brenda through the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 15, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  The MIT Fall Career Fair is an intimidating thing. Over 350 companies ... , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... that want other majors, but 2, 6, and 18 are the big three. This is how

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  feel this way. That was what the knocking was about.  I asked who it was, and the girl at my door told me that she did not feel right.  I opened the door and let her in.  She sat on my floor, and I sat with her.  She

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  may have casually come up in the times that I’ve written here that I am a News Editor for our campus newspaper, The Tech. For me, that means one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  In Situations Requiring Social Interaction - I foresee the situation arising tomorrow. "Hi, it's nice to meet you - the gravitational force ... really, I swear I listen to the things my professors are telling me. Yup

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about ... 's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the ... using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... of the shifting admissions landscape, our applicant pool was slightly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  The berry of the West African Synsepalum dulcificum (miracle fruit) bush has been popular in the United States since the 70s for its temporary effect on taste. The berry’s miraculin glycoprotein (3

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Starbucks. I'm getting a little too familiar with it.

  

  the local Starbucks, plugging myself into my music and reading orgo ... . Aside from learning about mass spec and the excretory system and all that ... . Starbucks works during various hours of the day. For instance: 1. The busiest

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  keeping the laptop charging even though it’s 100% charged - which I’ve been told is actually bad for the computer, but whatever ... in the derrière these days. (Also, the programs just suck - yet they

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... look out my window and to the left; if I look straight ahead, all I see ... having visited the professor I'll be UROP-ing with this upcoming semester

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  the quality of people here at The Institute. Judd Logan is yet another ... because of the people. On another note, doesn't the name "Judd Logan" sound ... night. For the MIT people, Tony Stark a/k/a Ironman........ Just my

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors ... there at the right time. (the people in line before me) Our tickets

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  posts that mentioned MIT President Susan Hockfield's trip to the White ... below). Now, he's returning the favor and coming to visit us this ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ruminations and room-inations Written on the anniversary of one year ago.

  

  The past year in retrospect is a telescoping compression of proper ... disorienting, suffered the raw heat of August sunlight during Susan Hockfield ... would tomorrow lose the ability to put food between slices of bread. “Year

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Story Oh goody!

  

  cooking our own food, if we so choose. Many people embrace the kitchens and ... do I really feel like learning right away, so I don't use the kitchens very often. This story, however, doesn't concern me, it concerns the girl

  • by Snively '11
  • July 19, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  Last night, I was lying on my mattress somewhere near the precarious edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... audition because I missed the actual auditions and trudged to the other side

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  A Burton Jew Thanksgiving Because I'm game for any excuse to eat stuffing.

  

  live on Burton 2, known primarily for being right below the Burton Third Bombers and for having the largest concentration of Kosher keeping Jews on one floor anywhere, or just the highest concentration of Jews in general

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West Coast. After an early morning trip to the Manchester, NH airport (that 4 ... young woman came all the way from Hawaii) and a terrific group of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008