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  SpaceVision 2010 Space is cool.

  

  be on time for my 8:10am flight. I asked the hotel to give me a wake ... good to breathe. As much as I love MIT, it was a relief to get away. I needed a break. I was running on low, and going to this was exactly what I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  International Colleges & Universities, a higher education directory. I have a few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list: OpenCourseWare: MIT courses for free on the web. What's not to love about

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... real holiday falls on a Sunday. So you should be able to submit stuff ... will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to ... ([email protected]) a link to it, though if you aren't able to host it ... will be forced to make a really lame one, and then make up another person

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  scenes to change things around a bunch - some portlets will be retired ... . A girl basically paid a consultant to help her reinvent her entire ... , not just MIT) have a responsibilty to find a way to take the pressure

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time ... store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a ... probability as a value between 0 and 1 assigned to events. When you flip a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  about living in a group like this is having to be organized about meeting ... to sit down again and have a discussion. We also have to have semi ... sharing a suite. You also have to operate as a unit, so there's a lot more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  So, in Massachusetts, there is a law called “An Act Relative to ... Massachusetts will vote to repeal or keep the law. As a transgender woman, my ... MIT and it’s wonderful people. MIT is such a great place to be queer! I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Four September 13th shall henceforth be known as National Gauss Appreciation Day.

  

  credit limit. To give you a glimpse of what a week of my life looks like ... 9th grade and well, I figured if one class was going to be a disaster ... going to be thrown into a class with virtually zero prior knowledge and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  obesity. To find the receptor, Mike and his colleagues are using a technique ... equipment. Mike helped to build a database called the "massome" where you can ... does not always yield the best results. If you really want to work in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to make is that Susan Hockfield was the best candidate by a landslide, and the fact that she also happens to be a woman reinforces the fact ... encourage them at a younger age. And what better place for that movement to

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... people tend to overestimate their unhappiness about not getting a job, as ... 's a limit to which your life satisfaction increases with your income

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a ... name a living scientist. I wanted to help counter that a little bit by ... some computer systems next to her and a little mini rocket.  

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a ... positive thing to people's lives. this is a good feeling and i'd like it to ... , commemorating nostalgia. i saw a tumblr quote today: "if you want to learn what

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  were on crutches for weeks, thanks to a broken big toe. Senior year ... your forehead, you approach a lifeguard and announce that you are here to ... 's possible to arrange to take the test at a different time. "Try going to the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  everything from shadowing a doctor to working a brief stint at a finance giant ... decided to pursue a position at a fashion startup that boasted a fresh ... fireplace to work on my clipboard. It almost feels a little bit like MIT

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to chronicle this week's adventures and realized that I was about to write a blog ... , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... the moisture steamed off, trying to loop into a point I couldn’t quite

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025