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  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my ... was stored on top of a tall cabinet out of harm's way. The very first thing he put up there was his treasured Mac IIsi. Later, I would come to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  was trying to find myself but was unsuccessful. Then we went to Shawna ... . "What socioeconomic class would you say your person belongs to?" "Do you ... froze exactly as it was, would you be able to roll it like a bowling ball

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Hall Rush: 1E So many packing peanuts

  

  /architecture). I live on the first floor of the east parallel of East Campus, which brings me to hall rush! Each hall in East Campus has a different culture ... then rank where they want to live. Each hall puts together events to

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • September 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a shoebox pc clips of summer

  

  internship on june fourth, it's already july 17th, and i move back to mit late august 25th. 41 days are behind me with 41 days to go. before i know it, this house i'm in already feels like home: i start to think for the first

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... an apple pie for the office today and I was going to take a picture of ... a transcript of the email that was sent this morning: From: Erin To

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Pieces Check your application tracking.

  

  . This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on My ... system is missing something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on ... application component at this time. There are still more weeks of reading to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT ... you get to college, student government (sort of a misnomer in the UA ... through surveys of the freshmen and the upperclassmen. We went to different

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week of work

  

  made very difficult, but we can earn back up to half the points we lost ... implementing Euclid's algorithm, which at first glance seems more like number ... something to do with codes. Thursday: 9.71 midterm. I was pretty happy about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  that uncommon." "No, parents are going to read this and be all, 'Oh good ... . :) Max In my freshman year, Course 10: Chemical Engineering decided to add Course 10B: Biological AND Chemical Engineering to its repertoire. Their

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this ... . As a double-major, I've generally had to take between 60 and 75 units

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some ... the #7 and #10 seeds in the tournament missed the first five integrals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... first and last challenge of each episode is basically a trivia competition ... team challenge (school spirit??) seemed to be straight out of "The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  of my friends, all on their way to Doctorates in AI. He also wrote the text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering ... noted MIT professors have helped to select the freshman class while I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... 're still planning to be on schedule. Hopefully everyone would have their ... gift!). But, I've been trying to keep people realistic through this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make ... planned for 2020, but regardless I think it's good to always set goals! Gym ... fit this 2020. I learned how to properly lift things and I became pretty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... out before the semester even starts) to absolutely nothing (and suffer ... time to do something you can tell an employer about).  I’ve had this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  United Methodist Church in Tallahassee, Florida, began as an effort to provide repairs and basic necessities to homes of impoverished families in ... -dimensional effort to help the residents of Gretna in all areas of life, not just

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... !" Okay, well that's only my favorite episode of Star Trek EVER, next to the ... Decker fail to save the universe with his well-intentioned but ultimately

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual ... more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005