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  Why It Pays…

  

  Why it Pays to Be a Math Geek (from msn.com) Selected passages ... , 'but you have to be a good communicator to be put in charge of large ... , that is." "According to NACE's Job Outlook 2005 survey, eight of the top

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  can promise you. If you received such a letter, you have every right to ... To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the MIT stationary, I cannot begin to tell you how sorry I am. That is

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another

  

  towards the end of october, back in 2024, i was walking back to my dorm and i was about to make the turn from the asphalted footpath that ... nights and tall roofs and vents to be crawled over and squeezed through

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • August 6, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi on Pie So much pi[e].

  

  this blog post I’m going to go back to grading. (“Grading” is a word ... dishes). I want to share them with you, to the extent that I can share 1.909859317102744... π pies over the internet.   (A secret: the pies are a lie. Their

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  of a big deal around these parts, and wouldn't you know, it happens to ... each class's Rat are chosen by a Ring Committee, or "RingComm," a group of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  On Tuesday, a group of which I am a member had a large meeting in ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it ... ! We are going to see it on Saturday, and that was NOT a deliberate decision. And this is NOT a hint *cough* yes it is *cough* to see the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  of you admits (and soon-to-be admits!) might be wondering if MIT is a ... that I knew I wanted to go into neuroscience (which is still a relatively new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  to the Church of the Covenant for a Fiction Keynote. One of my favorite ... ending, fall in love with a priest, and be inspired to write more of my own ... . What a wonderful skill it is to speak like a beautiful novel! After the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lecture Notes: Biology of Culture highlights from Brian Farrell's open lecture at the Harvard Museum of Natural History (spoiler: contains…

  

  to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I ... of life in three parts: to be with each other. To work towards a better ... genealogy. Physics, quanta and the ability to observe action at a distance

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play ... goals that they're trying to accomplish during the game, and a well ... Hi there, blog readers! Now that we're a week into IAP, I have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me ... Medical Students Association, and it took 2 ½ hours for the food to arrive

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

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some group of people on the floor puts together a late night snack ... 's honestly a rather pleasant way to spend an evening. Said the MIT student

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  planned to Building 54 -- a renovation sponsored by Shell, the oil company ... of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... It's more likely than you think! To understand this hack, you need

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  , a list of women graduates, a dedication to MIT "college girls", and a ... choose to participate in a variety of musical clubs, French or German plays ... of the first human oncogene—a gene that causes normal cells to form

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  its diameter? A: Pumpkin pi. Don't forget to celebrate Pi Day (3 ... .14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510..................... How many digits do you know? More to come later today about how MIT ... sponsored a Pi Day Celebration of sorts. This was the email I received

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder ... place. I freaked out, and grabbed the girl next to me; a shout-out to ... afternoon, my host and I took a walk around the area, to clear our heads and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A brief history of 2.007, the MIT class that inspired FIRST Robotics Complete with 1970s-era footage of Woodie Flowers

  

  If you're like me (and I'm willing to bet a lot of our readers), then ... of what it's like to be a mechanical engineer at MIT, and something of ... game in a long time I am legit jealous I won't get to participate in a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2016