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  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  . Bryan, President Hockfield periodically has lunch with a small group of 4 - 6 graduate and undergraduate students. She very much hopes that you ... you can be a part. Sincerely, Kirk Kolenbrander Senior Advisor to the

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  , you're the one I would expect to know how." This is one of the highest ... (life is both hard and weird without a conventional living situation ... more patient later. 2.Bring a big tote bag or backpack (this is self

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... is completely optional): "On a separate sheet, show us and/or tell us ... Championship Series. My friends and I had planned a West Wing season premiere

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• 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 ... across. how to set up a meeting. i've learned that mit also runs on when2

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  MIT portal, in the orange box on the left there is an "Overnight Program" link ... quite a trip! We left off in Miami, where I had a great meeting before a ... , where I was due to do a meeting in Tampa. Like in Orlando and Miami, I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  good idea for a while, but after an hour of congratulating myself on how ... is a truncated icosahedron, which has 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons ... hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  . Navigate how much pain you can take. Decide how much is ‘worth it,’ whatever ... for how much I lifted or how long I rested. When bench presses or ... worse. If the former is true, I might well push through a set; if it’s the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  weekend; it is the intangible element that makes CPW so much more than a ... Campus Preview Weekend, none is more important than the CPW booklet, a 96 ... was a large cardboard box filled with industrial quantities of frozen

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the ... CAN BE EATEN is a clue for EDIBLE. These are the cookies: (C ... Technology has plans for world domination through weather control. It is our

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  metallurgy). I am finding that Cambridge is much more concerned with theory and ... , the lab experience is much lamer. This week, I am learning atomic force ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  considering how understaffed he is, but I’ve been sick pretty much every other ... , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... from a friend a few weeks ago during a different contamination: Hey, how’s

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Standing Out [by C/3C Christopher Benson, '10] Before AFROTC, this abstract concept of "leadership" seemed very generic...

  

  cadets a few weeks ago. It is statements like these that make me very ... . I want to be a fighter pilot - that is why I joined AFROTC, for the ... 't expecting to gain much in the program other than a commission. Now I am a year

  • by ROTC
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn ... major, not a major crisis necessarily, though it certainly is a question ... true that is anymore. I think, in a vacuum, I love physics. But I don

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  is completely snapped off) at 5:30, and there was already a line forming for like 3 blocks down a side street. At 6:45, after much scuffling ... -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  will be a simple text box, similar to one of the essays from the Part 2 ... Midyear Report: This online form is required for all applicants, including ... semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  say is that I've never really been able to take a break yet this ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self ... classes, have a schedule: 6.01 (Intro to EECS via Robot Sensing) is an

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  ://open.spotify.com/playlist/3EGKKO6m7WI5iA1Z7eHb40?si=6c3b4351813f4ae0 Monday My general plan is ... lab, a 25-minute walk down Mass Ave. Usually the day is clear, or ... time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  , In Time ), and I have to decide how to spend it. MIT is a culture ... fact that people say an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... go to. It's now evident how much MIT throws at its students. I'd be

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  much from last year, but we did make a few minor tweaks:  We ... possible  Something that is the same as last year, but a change from our ... -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... London. what this means is that i have been away from MIT for a little over ... the past five (that is such a large number) semesters at MIT. and all

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024