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  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  . This was done primarily to create the illusion of actually having time ... reading assignments with only a moderate degree of success at remaining dry ... myself up-to-date on goings-on outside the world of MIT - What? The

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  The Class of 2007 walked across the stage last Friday, and among the ... offerings at MIT. Among her many experiences, Ana worked in the Sinkey Lab, one of the few MIT microbiology labs, for one and a half years. She says

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  , and somehow came up with the idea of learning calculus. I had never ... could’ve gotten me into MIT. Because of the OCW preparation, I got to ... University of Sannio about the productivity gap between the North and the South

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... substitute for the sensation of interior space, but I grabbed a few anyway

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 3 is third time the charm??? questionable

  

  The hell of fall semester is finally over and I have resurfaced from ... estimate, but honestly, I'm sort of over the free t-shirt craze. This is ... wardrobe and this has not changed for the past two years. You get tired of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  want a masters degree in your subject pretty much by the end of sophomore ... taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... moving to Westgate at the end of the month, and suddenly we have to buy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  the Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory ("AI Lab ... of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the ... domestic applicants has ended. I spent much of the day discussing and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... me. The climb to 5West was not terribly laborious and was well greeted ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  meet other people on the west side of the dormitory I didn’t know, and ... hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven’t blagged since the fall semester started due to trying to get on top of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of the ATP (Association of Tennis Professionals). As an undergraduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fran Sancisco and Spother Oonerisms Racing tays and fighting lires

  

  This all starts with a minister by the name of William Archibald ... from the first sentence of the introduction, where Obama is noted as the 44th President of the United States and Beyonce is identified as an

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013. Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... -three percent and the temperature was seventeen degrees Celsius. One had left ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language classes over IAP

  

  During our Independent Activities Period (IAP), essentially most of January -- the intermediate period between winter break and the spring semester -- numerous for-credit classes are on offer. The full first semester

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What can I say, it grew on me . . . (Guest Entry) Now I'm a beaver believer!

  

  staying on The 5th floor of The West parallel. And, I was at The MIT. It ... icebreakers Thursday night (he's the one in the gray sweatshirt). The three of ... physically possible, and to visit all of the dorms. And so, we began our

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  , West Virginia: site of the world's largest (and sexiest, to use the ... : under my keyboard, behind my monitor, on the side of my computer. Raphael ... over. The guest bedroom has a huge pile of cardboard boxes, and Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... electricity. I guess the reason that robots are first thought of as human, as ... with them — to replace the labor of a person, but still accomplish a task

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  other early risers traveled as far as the lawless borders of West Campus ... few students had seen fit to revive the traditional Olympic sport of DDR ... projections simulating the effects of a particular focal length, using the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Party pics

  

  reawakens - hence the name of the party. We help him reawaken by staging a ... pretty white dress and a crown of black roses, and is being led to the sacrificial table by Deirdre '08, handmaiden of Krotus. Yelena '06 was the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 2, 2005