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  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  that, yes, E=mc2. The new mayor of Edison, NJ, Jun Choi '94, was sworn ... most popular male name and the most popular female name of students ... Happy 2006, everyone! Before heading back to the office tomorrow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Forum Monday Let's make a list of questions that you feel you REALLY need answers to ASAP.

  

  the rules: Make sure your question is general enough to be of ... closer to application deadlines I know that your anxiety level is on the incline. As a way to help with your tension headaches, I propose the

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... me all the possible ways my life was capable of stretching and splitting and changing. Looking back, however, it was one of the most

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  [by Ken Haggerty '11] As I walked into the main stage of the Central ... construction was done, but it wasn't until last Sunday and the urging of friends ... creation of plays about science in addition to discussing the cultural impact

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding My Way Around MIT (Guest Entry) CPW was so hugely difficult to take in all at once that it's hard to…

  

  . Amy Smith gave an excellent presentation about some of the challenges of ... interesting idea. We got to see sparks. Lots of them. Big ones. The best ... inductor was a little disappointed that no one ran screaming out of the room

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Coming Full Circle C’mon & zoom, c’mon & zoom, c’mon & zooma zooma zooma zoom.

  

  , researching, among other commitments. I was not ready to take on the idea of ... more than two-thirds of the programming on PBS. In other words, I ... , read all of the Arthur books, and played Arthur’s Reading Games on the PC

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  9.00 with no context are you a cool rat?

  

  of the most interesting and fun lectures I've ever had at MIT. As a ... best quotes from lecture. Shout out the 9.00 group chat for all of these ... you want to take a sip of coffee, you know not only what the cup looks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  ambition finding direction

  

  attain any of the most common ambitions people have. do i want to become ... more about doing specific kinds of good for the world than doing the most ... response to the question, but i’m pretty sure it was a combination of “not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... oscilloscope"][/annotation] At the end of 2.678, I have to return the Analog ... into getting electronics equipment of my own. In the very back of this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  . This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary ... I liked them. It's a list of all the books I read or started any time ... , sister, best friend, chickens, poodle) in the temperate rainforest of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of weeks: the end of our first 8-week ICE course. ICE, or Integrated ... -nighters, the windowless basement computer lab, the return of 10.301 (fluid

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  , began exercising on a daily basis, and even quit pulling the pigtails of that girl who sits in front of me in class. I also took out the trash and ... fined $25 for not doing our cleaning duties, and the serious shame of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  level of Cambridge, MA increased with the arrival of my 10-year-old little ... . You may even recognize The Goober from his appearances in some of my videos. The folks on campus certainly did, as upwards of six people

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Room E51-151, Please??? By Jing, '11

  

  ’ve seen the encyclopedia of an events list that we all got for CPW ... were some of the few things that I actually attended after finding it in ... and did everything spur-of-the-moment. Thursday night, rather than walk

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... school? and the dreaded what are you doing in sf? or if it's that kind of ... course not. they're asking me about the supposed startup i'm a cofounder of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  host a summit for all the recipients. In May, I got an e-mail from one of my mentors, saying that "as part of the Google RISE program, we have ... do presentations." Neither of the teacher mentors could go, so they

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  It’s almost the end of 2020, which is terrifying. And hopeful, of ... point of the above, but this was such an important and new experience. Not only did I learn to live alone in all the practical senses of the word

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Wiimote Fun in Spain What I'm actually doing with my time over here, when I'm not learning Spanish insults…

  

  of the study abroad that MIT students do. Basically, back in the 70s ... 've been growing ever since, with Spain being one of the newer additions ... early in the year to talk about the details and logistics of the program

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 25, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  the frustration of attempting engineering drawings. We would draw boxes ... and meticulousness were the defining traits of a good engineer ... it did.  At the end of my freshman year at MIT, I declared brain and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  November was … read until the end to find out

  

  one test towards the very end of the semester and no final, which is ... was probably 70-80 percent of the whole course), it felt a lot like a ... /Exhausting Interviews We both managed to get to the final stage of the interview process

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 29, 2019