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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  month or two later that I had secured a spot in my first choice dorm. Room ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... don’t know how long my body can sustain this level of non-activity. I do

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Boys like cars and money $1 billion is not enough for thefacebook, but $9 an hour is good enough for…

  

  've mentioned this in passing a few times, but I thought that now we have the ... recieve outside calls, but nobody ever taught us how to do that, so I ... let you do your p-sets, but once in a while I've gotten to talking to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  summer! This summer, I am doing research in synthetic biology as a member ... in a concert that the team is organizing this fall! Ballroom is one of ... ! Another person I would like to give a shout-out is Katie Bodner ’15 (whom I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  . Happiness is not a place. In the following months I went to CPW, shopped for ... still works. I felt that I had passed a crossroads. For about six years ... the scenes I used to only see in photographs, and I remember how

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  restaurant (Chik-fil-A) in the first line of my email “to demonstrate that I ... worried that I wasn’t doing enough, that I wasn’t a good enough writer, or ... that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  ambition. I also hope that this gives you a sense of how MIT is wrestling ... ’t tell my colleagues in other departments I said that) department at MIT, and a department that is top ranked in Computer Science, in Computer

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

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  as a whole. Remember how I said that the Internet was a more trusting ... immediately assumed that these were power cables. Carefully, I got a closer look ... . It connects back, I promise. How My Dad Crashed the Internet In

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  and don't like it, it only costs a fraction of what I make in an hour; back then, if I bought a boba and didn't like it, well, that was an ... that is a net negative and leaving something because the grass might be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  first week of classes. It was a fun time, in the sense that I enjoyed ... class or two and still graduate, and I have a little wiggle room in how ... -and-white answer in vain; that this is a question where you will only find answers by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  on how far they live from a "high quality" hospital. And I am studying ... ! Q. Can you tell us about an undergraduate course that you teach? A. I ... come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  what I asked in the entry I wrote before - "What is it that makes you ... one of those boring spots in the background? I am a firm believer that ... admissions. Over the year and a half that I've been here, after meeting

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  ramen place in Porter Square), but also I've left behind a lot of good food places I really enjoyed (Umami Burger, that one tteokbokki place in ... 've missed above all, however, is Chick Fil A. There are no Chick Fil A's in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  intimidated by the to-do list. With that said, I did not apply Early Action to ... applicants is an absurd and nearly impossible task in itself. But that’s why we ... ’t define us. In fact, I’m pretty sure this is one of the principles MIT

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  equipment in the lander. Every once in a while it hit me that: Woah. I ... ="92359" image5="92372" /] I am so happy that I took the gamble to live in a new ... Class of 2022 that is doing her masters at MIT for Manufacturing, was

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak but it depends on how shameless I am that day. Most likely, I will ... a test (it's pretty funny if you're not one of the kids) I could do

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  while in a pandemic. Among all that, I feel like haven’t spent enough time ... semester, which resulted in a lot of stress. I’m glad I made that mistake now ... understand what it is I’m doing with my life. I’m certain enough that biology

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room ... morning (which is to say that I switched to being nervous about waking up in ... I was in looked like that, all wood paneling and a bit of dark gothic

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  I think (and hopefully you do too) that the title of this blog post sounds like a fun, silly mini-project that an MIT student would do in their ... Huawei P7. Huawei is a smartphone brand that sells widely in Africa and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  looks like (don't panic - take it from a reliable source that there is a ... -be on MIT blogs). --- This is a simple story of three guys, how they met ... but I tried to connect with him a bit since I already knew that I was

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... book, followed by an in-depth review by a professor. And I do mean in ... me. But I’ll get to that in just a bit. In Closing, A Few Things From

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014