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  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... . That I always end up contemplating what went wrong in the past few ... hours ranting about how much I despise Bevi… but this post isn’t about

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig’s advice on how MIT could best explore its historical connections in this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  .  Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to ... cost and cycle time.  If the costs in a field have come down recently, or ... start up in that field (see: genome sequencing). Aim for small wins first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Goodnight Moon Or: The Senior Who Desperately Tries to Put Off Bedtime By Saying Goodnight to Every…

  

  as is my house back in California. I remember being gently startled the ... alleviate the dissonance in my mind every time I accidentally referred to MIT ... no home and no place and no thing that is perfect. I love MIT in the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  350 you start to forget how you normally write your name). That's why I ... listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary ... cards. I made sure to write down what I added to the cards I customized

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some CPW Thoughts The latest on CPW planning from the Admissions Office.

  

  had a dream where I visited Snively at his school. I walked in in the ... CPW hosts This past week, my colleagues and I spent many, many hours ... for you, you can imagine how time consuming this can be. Even daylight

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week. Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the newspaper or the watch the news as often as I should, but that's why I am glad

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things That Have Happened To Me Recently in no particular order

  

  can't seem to find a place that makes good ones in the area). I had ... .  I have this friend who, lately, will not stop replacing lyrics in ... find good links in huge articles. I wish I could tell you what articles

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  In my last blog post, I mentioned that one nice benefit of becoming a ... . Trying out new places in my neighbourhood Now that I Live In A Place TM ... the summer as something to do when I was alone in my little New York

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had ... commiserate over the hardest parts. In the evenings, once I was done with my ... my imagination. It was easy, in those late nights, when I was wrapped

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F ... class In addition, I am advising the freshmen seminar 14.A03: Economics ... trustees play in fund governance? How does mutual fund regulation affect

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Independent Studies the making of a (very) short film

  

  approach, since we knew that would work. We still learned a lot about DDA in ... be super tiny so that it would compile in the range of 10 to 15 minutes ... entire time at MIT essentially. We would have probably taken 6.839 Advanced

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  I know well in MIT graduate programs are cheerleaders or former ... I'll be interviewing there in three weeks. (All of the schools at ... . I'll offer this warning, though: no matter how much you might think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , "Whatttt. How can one person be so. incredibly. happy?!" I quickly came to ... , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the ... During my freshman orientation many, many months ago, I came across a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Senior Bucket List, Pt. I Do ALL the things!

  

  I spent a while thinking about how to introduce this blog post, but ... 've wanted to do in college/MIT/Boston that I just haven't gotten around to ... that crossed my mind was Holy moly I am going to be in the vicinity of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 18, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  that I haven't blogged in "forever." (The earlier back you look, the ... entries I planned but never wrote. Looking back in the archives, it seems ... heard from me, I had just turned in my thesis and was going to a meeting

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kickstart My Art highest form of expression

  

  point (though I hope it will be, and am backing it, because I would like a ... There was a great article in the Tech earlier this week about startup ... . Now, Mark could do a lot of things in a lot of organizations, and all of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send ... will begin looking at candidates during the week of May 8. How can I ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  MISTI Notes from the Field     Topics I taught I taught in a group with five other MIT students. For Physics, we designed a ... to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  "Blowing up the alamo into pieces then hiding out in the mountains", I admire ... 're pretty good at reading titles. If you guessed I'll be working at Los Alamos this summer and I'm currently looking for an apartment somewhere near the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009