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  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  been me. Please don't tell Barack). President Obama is the second ... me because I'd personally tramped all over these grounds for the past ... . "Come with me," she says, leading us around to the middle section. To a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  me about as redundant as the last 293-give-or-take-280 Redwall books ... delicious Thai seafood curry the next night, and everyone (namely, me) lived happily ever after. On the downside, the sight of stairs makes me foam at

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  Hey Mr. McArthur (I am him!) Tell me where have you been (Hangin’ out with TIM!) They’ve been asking…. (Who’s been asking ‘bout me?) They ... him at a book fair in November and he told me that he was deeply

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  , I love the beach, so I figured this would make me happy. But the ... closet, and the 2 suitcases I had brought back with me from Spain shoved ... loft. This idea came to me in a flash of brilliance, as we were

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  camp means a lot to me (and that is an understatement if I've ever seen ... me and had stuff for me to do. Lo and behold, I had a summer job. So ... feeding me theory along the way, too. The ultimate goal of my UROP is to

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

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in MechE would provide me with a solid yet broad engineering background ... train me to think analytically about systems – both how to design them and ... , etc.), I thought this training would make me a great doctor, as well

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  piano chords rains down around me. Slow down, fast train. Take me with you ... she gave me my nickname, Spammy, within seconds of meeting me, and how ... seriously concerned for me, but then it turned out everything was okay and we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... other kids caught me reading the dictionary, and everybody teased me ... , you'd find me backstage with some confused person, making drawings about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  statistics and making train, plane, and hostel reservations online--got me to ... sometimes. A lot of problem sets in junior-level classes made me not only ... -ideal gas law relations, but also made me take these answers and apply them to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... -- actually, I've always thought it helped me become the time management ninja I ... often get stuff started so it's ready for me when I come in. Third... I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of turbine engines to make me feel better), and since then have eaten Chipotle ... almost two years, which is probably some sort of life record for me -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  words too fast and people can't understand me and I have to repeat myself ... classes per semester... It does not look strikingly difficult to me, but ... answered for me: And your teacher is right: unless the MIT class offers an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  Time for some more questions: MIT App Mom asked: "Maybe it's just me ... personal blog, which is how Ben first "met" me last year. So when he created this blog template for me, he named it "Life of a Tecker" after the first

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  ?” There were so many people that we couldn't dedicate nearly enough time to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  's going on. it's a good pace for me, and my notes for this recitation are ... glasses fall right off my face. people who try them on have told me they ... the experiment i did yesterday. it gives me results that make a little

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  thought I’d left behind, but really they were just waiting for me here, in ... making me recall a forgotten phase in which I wanted to be that absent ... , like sci-fi. There was even a bit of nonfiction, which surprised me. It

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  physics! It is by far the hardest subject for me to grasp conceptually. I was really nervous for 8.021, but let me just tell you that I would take ... those hours, I ended up finishing. This was a HUGE accomplishment for me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 2 Many more of your questions and my answers.

  

  .B. wrote, "1. Can you tell me if there are any interviewers around Oslo, or ... application, as participation in (to me) interesting activities is very ... against me taking the exams, as I was very ill, but due to various

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my semesterly planner mentally preparing for the trials ahead

  

  , of course, but the act of writing things out really helps me ... eye view helps me plan ahead for particularly stressful weeks, or get

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • August 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  whole month of January. So for me, I spent this month learning some new ... we left I wanted to get a vid of me snowboarding down so I did like my ... . Just me, a pencil I had to borrow from a friend because I forgot you need

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025