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• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... seconds. My luck in airports is notoriously crappy. To celebrate, I went to ... want to throw a heavy glass object every time I see it, which is often

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…

  

  with once saying, "The trick to education is to teach people in such a ... 's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided ... in a HS setting. How would you recommend that I display these sort of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  so close to each other that I often forget which is which. A perfect example: the word "and" in Spanish is "y" (pronounced like a long E), while the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  actually know how to pronounce it. The nice compromise I've come up with is ... after work. Time not at work is usually spent sleeping. I write in the ... in high school? How many hours per week? How many weeks per year

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

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  thing I have: A copy of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on DVD 21F ... class In addition, I am advising the freshmen seminar 14.A03: Economics ... its regulation. How do you read the mutual fund section of a financial

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I ... cool project. In my advising seminar last year (6.070 - it's a great ... 'm working with in my banner photo, because that actually happens to be a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  certainly not forgotten. I've got a blog post in the works about how to write ... so this subject is both fresh in my mind and timely for yours as the ... the same reasons TNC did in his post: because it's a shocking reminder

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT announces new College of Computing coordinating the teaching, research, and ethics of AI across all programs of study

  

  ? A: In general, MIT students are part of the school or college that is ... . He wrote: This new College is our strategic response to a global ... . To state the obvious, AI in particular is reshaping geopolitics, our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Pardon my French! Join me as I cross the English Channel and dodge oncoming traffic on the Champs-Elysees.

  

  is only a twenty-minute endeavor. Ah, Paris. Pretty typical ... rain and a strong breeze while waiting in line -- luckily I was under a ... my ticket validated for the next day and hopped in a taxi bound for my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Wish I Was an Astronaut I was a nerd even back in 3rd grade.

  

  chose to do a rap about him. This only demonstrates how nerdy I was even ... and his men opened up a new door, To that new frontier in outer space ... Not really...but I used to. I wrote this little diddy back in 3rd

  • by Bryan
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... immersed in the MIT culture. I am certainly a full-blooded MIT student, and ... rumors- at MIT, everything is given a number. Classes, buildings, trees

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  cliched metaphor! Kids, climbing Fuji is like going through MIT in a lot of ... a mountain climber in any form, shape, or capacity. I hike ... - thanks, Wikipedia: Mt. Fuji is the highest mountain in Japan at 3,776 m (12

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  place is taking a new kind of energy. How is it time already?  In Catcher ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U-Haul truck headed towards a sketchy storage facility somewhere in the middle of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  that I could take advantage of a free trip to Paris! I picked up a copy ... two years, is called January Scholars in France. MIT has all these ... I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied ... to fax the document to us. The fax number you should use is included in ... documents in record time. As a result, we are already having a great reading

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... 1 would be a high school cafeteria burger and 5 would be an In ... . This weekend is particularly splendid for a couple of reasons. First of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... consistently interesting times. At the same time I was in school, Boko Haram, a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  see Lucy Lawless play Rizzo in a Broadway production of Grease. After 18 ... put this into my Thursday night TV-watching repertoire. "How much time ... or how much they were on. Last year I stopped watching both shows

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  . This is a dumb story, but scroll down for some more pictures. I left my umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great ... a train in Switzerland. I was worried about finding a replacement

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006