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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get ... As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... 't get a chance to talk with him, but as he was leaving I heard his one

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... generally alarming everyone within a half-mile radius, I promptly posted a lame Facebook status about it and got a bunch of likes. Since then, I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  greeting of the coming holiday. You can tell a lot about someone ... dining hall either ;-) I stayed out of the way for the most part (I ... for our tests in EVERY CLASS! Yay! The end! Hope ya had a nice

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of ... also work a lot so we can go home occasionally, which is why this is completely overdue and I'm writing this from the other coast. I'll be back soon

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Teaching Abroad: a Guest Blog Post by Elizabeth Q. ‘14 Learn a new language, teach science.

  

  requirement for this program, and I landed in Milan’s Linate airport on January ... go, you are probably all set for most of life. What if I’m not ... summer after my freshman year I went to Germany for two months as part of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  Climbing that I failed to wake up for. I ended up going to see a talk by the ... afternoon, I met with my advisor ("reg day meeting"). Typical protocol for ... right across the street from my dorm. So I will miss being able to quickly

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  : Physics C- Mech: 5 Physics C- E/M: 5 I...am at a loss for words. I have absolutely NO IDEA how this happened. I think somebody made a mistake. *grin* I ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Shoulder Season Treat A little something for rising seniors to jump-start their exploration of MIT

  

  get a start on the college exploration process. For that later group I have a little treat... OK, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. I don ... #260 from October 28, 2024, you can even hear from one of MIT's former

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... , liberty, art, and Angola. I am not sure is there's a major for this. "If ... suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , Maryland, down the road from Goddard Space Flight Center, where I'll be ... . Last Friday, my older brother (MIT '11) and I took off from San Francisco ... shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  just got back from my last final (meaning I'm technically done for the ... with a bat." -Christina '10 "It must be finals week!" -Ben Why am I ... you get to choose where you live and stay with something like a family

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  to do this for a living?' He said I'd have to meet this up ... of the series 7-2, thanks to a strong pitching performance from David ... graduated from MIT with a degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1984. Clara is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*

  

  cabins that students can use for a small fee. One of the halls in East ... doing the unforeseeable and Going Outside! (It's also because I took a ... records for the world's shortest camping trip, but we did get to go on a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  here are a few things that I've learned. 1. Shop around for the TA that ... freshman spring semester I signed up for both a 6.01 and 6.042 tutors and it ... The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  . He also, I found out, is a recitation instructor for 8.286 - The Early ... will: I am currently living on a Navajo reservation, forty miles from the ... work that I’ve been doing, but you can expect to hear plenty more from me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  inflation here. I voted for tshirt design B, with a simple athletic jersey ... grant for students who want to study abroad. I'm not sure what the ... Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Office followed, making for a fun Admissions Dance Party of sorts (which is ... Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to ... one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  What pretty hair… This entry is about my dorm, hair dye, pork dumplings, and, of course, Alain Boublil.

  

  80% of Burton-Conner deskworkers are from Conner 3, so you can usually ... thing I saw was this: Now, really, this isn't that unusual for Conner 3 ... blog this!" Well, I can't argue with that. Luckily, I had my camera phone

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  for a grade. Since I defined the endpoint, I could justify my workaholic ... I was doing the work for myself, not for a grade or a class. And if it ... voices loudly that this class isn’t fun, from what I can tell, there are

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  's best for you. I know you're all getting a ton of stuff thrown at you now ... hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... alone soon, I promise - I've had nothing to do for the last two weeks, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009