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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity ... Emerge the old-fashioned way: one trip to Sri Lanka at a time, one lecture ... from Victoria’s Secret to Sarvodaya, a Sri Lankan group that

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  ." I'm awkwardly posed next to them, hovering over them by a couple ... ? Prove what? Or maybe I saw it as a chance to live out my dreams of feeling like the popular kid and go to a party and shed away all that high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having ... entries to come involving my research and other jobs, but until then here's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nonlinearity My conjecture on finding my way through four years at MIT.

  

  I wrote a letter to myself before coming to college that I promised ... that I was able to carve out a path for myself that I feel very happy ... , I was en route to spend another five years at MIT pursuing a PhD in

  • by Bryan
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  even learned to sow at the Metropolis Makerspace and made a reversible ... a wooden pull toy. I am learning how to be a leader through dorm ... degree to be (6-2? 6-1? 2A-6? 6-3?). To be transparent, this approach has

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year, I left my home on Long Island to go live on a Christmas tree farm with a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

  to do a UROP involving research that's tangential to my major ... Linguistics Group, a group that uses large-scale corpus studies to discover ... languages all around the world. How many? Enough to populate a map like this

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Personal Projects

  summer side projects a nonzero amount of them are final fantasy related

  

  Blender! - Blender is a 3D modeling software that you can use to model a lot ... of things to learn for a while and i'm glad that i finally got around ... ="aligncenter" width="600"] i valiantly tried and failed to animate a car moving

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  erosion of diversity that appears to be accelerating on a global scale. This ... species management to ecosystem management. It just requires a big chunk of ... -life interviews, just to name a few. At the end, the consolidation of research takes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  things i have done since leaving school but only in the ten hundred most used words

  

  to be a doctor in games computers and learning didn't get into the big ... left my computer job and moved to rain city with a friend from computer ... ~~~ cut off all my hair moved to city where the sun is out every day

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in ... become -- --- OKAY, so there IS a point to this entry! Here it is ... , based on the stat counters at the bottom, has probably been of help to a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  opportunity to attend a 3 week base visit called "Ops Air Force" during the ... Development Training (PDT) program designed to give cadets a better view of Air ... different squadrons to get a broad view of base operations. I was lucky enough

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  ’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school ... of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... Spanish, I want to write a novel, I want to get a PhD in media studies, I ... make the necessary series of choices to lead me down a path that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I ... a single applicant's numbers, to tell you the truth, and I'd be hard-pressed to find a single admissions officer who could. Because you are not

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  important changes in policy. This week, his job is to prepare a delegation of ... year olds, expected to become experts in a wide variety of areas often ... the next closest thing.” To help staffers, there is a non

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... organized a MLTalk with the DCI developers and Media Lab director Joi Ito to ... , the DCI announced a $900,000 Bitcoin Developer Fund to to cover salaries

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Grocery Store Run Run, Geza, run!

  

  line for hours for milk, to enjoy a weekend in the beautiful New England ... decent shape, my whole family decided to visit. We had a great time. My ... . Needless to say, this was not a bad position to be in. She forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  I saw going to college as a rebirth. I really disliked high school. College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build ... something I have to rebuild. I was a pretty lonely high schooler. I didn

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  : how to delegate things. delegate is a fancy word meaning getting someone else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022