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  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  interested in is that I wrote a book with Simon Johnson, a Nobel Prize winner ... double major in something else. That's not true. 14 is a great major. We ... good at doing math in my head. So I thought I'd be a math major, but it

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  's Mom and sorting through the shambolic mess that is my room right now. I had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk ... , isn't it? Considering that I only weigh 140 pounds, I wondered just how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... chose the latter.” i think this is a possibility that we don’t explicitly ... to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  in Course 2 in charge of the 2A department so they can verify that I ... drama groups in a production) as one of your classes, which I think is ... next entry, where I’ll discuss that in a lot more depth. (Also, Sandimelb

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2025 and taking part in tradition

  

  , but tbh that song is rlly catchy and i do recall looping it for about a ... always, your entertainment. Okay. I admit it. This is the latest that a ... Hello everybody! It's high time that I take a break from all the deep

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 1, 2026
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  second, which is a very awkward unit. I guess I’d go with that; it’d made ... , I can’t tell you how huge a fan I am of your work. I actually quoted ... .” *begins to sign my book* “But I do have to ask: if you were a unit of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  , this is a picture that I think is awesome (though awesomeness, like ... On Monday, I got to see a pacemaker insertion surgery, eat lunch in ... - '14 hopeful: My name is Ryan, I live in Prescott, Arizona, and I will

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt ... that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... that language, and I have included a best-efforts transliteration and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  #9 Dream Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse! Ah, bowakawa, pousse pousse!

  

  snuggled back into bed for another hour or so. Turns out that I was having a ... Harbison is teaching 21M.500L Senior Seminar in Music next term. 21M.500 ... studying, and also so you can judge how cool I am as a person by my musical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  UROP adventures in a separate post, since there's a ton of things that I ... totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... shoes looked a little lonely and abandoned that morning, so I went back to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  in the MIT undergraduate student body? And, which foreign country is ... the door. Please note that no RSVP is required. The meeting itself will ... MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  he’s a verifiable icon in the MIT community. I wish I had checked how ... me that I was pulling a “freshman spring” and taking too many classes ... of realizing somewhere in the middle that I had FOUR finals to prepare

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  teens hadn”t seen me for four days in a row and I knew that they would ... way could be severely hampered if one is constantly in the act of doing ... on yet my 10th trip on the Mass Pike in a matter of days. And while I

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  highlights of a hellish semester it's OVER. IT'S FINALLY OVER GOSDAIUOSDSOIJD

  

  's not even talk about how quickly I put a [annotation note="6.009 homies ... and a mf pandemic??? ANYways. as i've talked about in previous posts ... . living in a dorm last year was wonderful because I could have all sorts of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  ." Teresa Giblin '11 (Course 9, of Senior Haus): "I'll be doing a UROP in the ... (Course 18, of Phi Delts, formerly of Next House): "I'll be doing a UROP in ... , Paul Happily, it turns out that I have a lot of friends who like to be

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  same amount of work I'd do on a regular basis at school in person. I ... exhaustion of being in multiple Zoom meetings a day and that I'll be able to ... be pretty damn hard. While writing, I realized that I hadn't written a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  without a serious kind of intentionality to it that is hard to find. I ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... in Cantonese, a language I cannot understand. It was something about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  it off and never think about it again. Sorry, “How do I get in” is a ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” -- No disrespect (I mean that) but why do e-mails from India always have a ... all of a sudden you realize that everything is due in 4 days and you don

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful ... . copley square is beautiful on a sunny day with clouds. i watched some boys

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  , except today in addition to all that I was excited about a shiny new CCD ... , I had to take care of something else that was giving me a deep sense ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008