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  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where ... ), was scheduled to give a talk titled "Health System Transformation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  Question One Elizabeth asked, I have one... I was talking to my dad, trying to make decisions about this whole college application thing, and he said if I were planning on going to medical school I should definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I say “thank you” to the bus driver, so how can “thank you” also be enough

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  It was so exciting to be able to welcome the 1000+ adMITed students to campus these past two weekends. Many of you have explored our campus ... many of you got the chance to explore the Cambridge area. So, I figured

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  are people's spirits. So: my banana plant is almost too large to fit ... colorful new new MIT welcome center will soon be ready for you to see! more ... to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  And tomorrow brings a new day

  

  Around this time of the year, we're always told to write something ... period comes around, I don't really write anything at all, leaving it to ... . I will try my best to keep this short, as I'm sure this is a sensitive

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT launches AI Education website I worked on this cool thing for my UROP!

  

  I usually don't make *official* posts, so I'll try to keep this one ... 's bored at home and wants new things to learn, or a parent who wants to give their child some interesting material to learn about, I'd definitely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  sophomore fall (sophomore decline? sophomore roman empire?) (actually the word sophomore comes from Greek but shhhh)

  

  "]la-ing,[/annotation]trying to blog (...the operative word is perhaps 'trying to'), and having ... things that make you feel alive. every week i think to myself, well, this ... more thing that was keeping me afloat (like cooking dinner, or going to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  last thursday night was pretty stressful, trying to finish the ... 'd even started the lab early this semester, even gone to office hours. it ... 'd done perhaps 70% of the lab at this point, but due to the way this lab

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  to publish it as a free PDF for anyone who wants to read it. Now that it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well: College Admissions and the Public Interest continues to help admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately ... by the direct funding deadline (we've all been there). When my soon-to ... if I wanted to join a teaching innovative that he founded. Big Dreams

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you are a senior. (If you're younger, they may or may not want to give you ... of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ for Maker Portfolios You have questions - I have answers!

  

  This post has been updated as of October 2018 to reflect new ... teaching myself the language Processing, adding to Matlab, Python, VB.NET, and Assembly that I learned since coming to MIT.) Fun!  See? Anyways

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  me to fully articulate how I can feel inexplicably connected to and ... . To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live in the Cambridge area.  The Red Line no longer delivers me to the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  , if you want to look at it that way.) I was in line at LaVerdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie that I NEEDED to basically inhale at that point in time when I dropped my

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  undergraduate students from the United Kingdom. To have gotten to MIT she had to ... effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to ... to read and write than other students, and she has to spend extra time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  childhood was a festival of notes. I'd wake up to a note on my bedside reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  -in-their-pants jitteriness they felt - we (and by "we" I mean "I") try to maintain the little ... not to get too attached to this school. I had the state Science Olympiad competition on pi day and didn't get to check my MyMIT account until several

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned from my five-week expedition to India. Fine; even though IAP is ancient

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reflections and Decisions Take advantage of every opportunity you can

  

  I’m officially on winter break. It’s hard to believe that the ... now. It is where I am the person I want to be. Even though I have been at MIT for only two and a half years of my life, compared to the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • December 20, 2010