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  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case ... visitors or the MIT participants had a better time. Please thank your

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] It's familiar. It's even more familiar when a dark screen flashes the large bulky letters at the same time, or when it ... speakers had quite the right stage presence or audience dynamic. But no wrong

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  a cramming fervor around spring (that may or may not have included ... post-exams until school ended (that may or may not have included watching ... the AP exam, to 1) prepare us for the exams even more, and 2) allow us

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  difficult, or at least uncomfortable.) One of the perks of being a biology ... Fridays, since many bio/BCS classes meet for an hour and a half or two hours ... was a good day. Meta-comments: 1. Jessie and Ben commented on my host

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  the "click" with any of them. As the May 1 deadline was quickly ... across the river (or, I suppose, walk across the bridge). The curriculum ... "Are you Catholic or are you Methodist?", a school with no majority race

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  rational or utilitarian perspective. as the article puts it, “Jack was painfully aware that his future options were, ‘be a complete loser,’ or ‘be a ... through mindfulness or introspection or the like is that it assumes many of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math, and math with computer science. I do pure math, which will be the ... requirements. Math with computer science, or 18C, requires several computer ... 't taken many of the more applied or CS-related classes. So let me now talk

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  don’t know if it will necessarily ever stop. Or maybe you just learn to ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... better this way. Now, I will always remember them in their best form with

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  the lab—but you interact more directly with a graduate student or ... IAP or summer that I did full-time work, I arrived at the office at 7 a.m. some days or stayed until 7 p.m., worried that showing up later or

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  't pretty or cute enough to be one or the other. But the fact that I ... much as self-forgiveness will. But I think I can turn all of this into a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  impossible to think, or to make any useful decisions at all. I wake up and feel ... . You still try though, whether out of a sense of obligation or out of a ... people around me. Many, when things get dank, will feel their grip go / We

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... 't necessarily simpler or easier, because god knows i had my share of issues in ... memories, loving the things i used to love. "...do not know if i will ever

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  like I've done something bloggable or I feel too busy/lazy to blog, I ... the habit going again.   I will be posting more over the next month. And when I inevitably stop again because I get lazy or don't feel

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood of my old ... 're willing to invest. Building numbers weave in and out like needle and thread

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  This blog post is about you. yes, you.

  

  than your grades.  It happens to everyone sooner or later, if The Tech ... work together, and yet 70% of students believe they are average or below ... , and no doubt some of you will be in fields I can't even describe because

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  years, because I don't. They**** say MIT's like a box of chocolates, or Schrödinger's cat, or a box of chocolate Schrödinger's cats, in you never know what you're going to get. But I do expect that my MIT experience will

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... weather; for me, it was either really cold from head to toe or very warm up ... to watch out for rainstorms in the spring (or any time, for that matter

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  carousels or Android arduino robots; there are random inventors showing off their steampunk bicycles or home-fired ceramics. So Greg and I went to ... told that they will be up in the next few days on Fora.TV, and you should

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bumping Up Against—and Breaking Through—the Glass Ceiling Part 2 of my adventures at the National Conference for College Women Student Leaders

  

  cop, or a dog kennel owner. Growing up, I always liked math, but when I ... this role, she will coordinate program activities and allocate resources ... telling you to explore science or chase your dreams would be like preaching

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  to a time no earlier than 2 PM. Unfortunately for me, that will ... a truly Herculean task. Consider it retribution. Or payback. Or both

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009