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  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  It is summer in Cambridge, which means that: every morning I wake ... potted Cattley Guava is fruiting (in USDA zone 6!) it is time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes a whale is just a whale Humanities classes make me roll my eyes sometimes.

  

  school if you major in most engineering departments -- in fact, some departments, like course 6, have special programs in which you can complete your ... and water. (Did you know that, thanks to 5.60, I can now model the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  , as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I'd love to talk to you about whatever, because you're now affiliated with MIT, and that makes you totally awesome. But if you're still waiting for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  . You can see in the picture where I accidentally skipped over it because ... whatever word you want. In a bout of curiosity-fueled insanity that is not ... you can kind of make out a rough correlation. You can also kind of see

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? All the giant robot fighting clips in Mighty Morphin ... underwear: we all have them and they all stink, and also you can use them ... candidates than I am in every conceivable way. So if you see a half-Asian team

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  3.020 each counts as a half CI-M because of course 3 lore reasons ... two classes. Assignment 1 – A White Paper (3.010) In true MIT fashion ... spectroscopy to characterize the surface structures of electrocatalysts used in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... ’re assigned a faculty advisor in the department you’re interested in, and ... would-like-to-graduate-in-four-years thing: if you took zero aero

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  roommate (from freshman year, mind you) and I lived in the same room freshman ... (see? Upperclassmen can be nice), the grad students you look up to, and the professors who cared about you enough to tell you they believe in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time employee is time. As a student, depending on what you're involved in, you can have a lot of "free time", free in the sense that you don't have that ... retinas are made up of cones and rods, cones allow you to see colors in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  simfinite hopscotch! hippity hoppity blue tape grandiosity

  

  MIT is about risk. It’s a place where you put yourself out there, face possible criticism, to realize your full potential. In my case, I ... war (or worse!!). This was all in order to reach my highest goal, my

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • December 15, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee. Everyone is super tired, but we'll all get a bit of a break soon and we ... in the next few days; in the meantime I really need to say something

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  internet. However, you can't go around making embarrassing entries like this ... I ever saw in my life. You guys are the best students ever, and I will ... ." very meekly. And in college it's especially awkward when you write an e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  stay informed. Who are you?  I'm a new faculty at MIT in the Department ... would you describe what and how you hope to teach (in this class and ... check out the syllabus and recommended readings so you can follow along at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  at all. Class of '13, remember this when you're deciding between ... egregious lies in all of scientific history. You guessed it, I'm referring ... into more free giveaways than can fit in a single dorm-provided desk, a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... ongoing record of what happens after you don't get into MIT.  From @Wox, in ... as though there was everything to lose, all the work you put in, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Best from staff

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  [annotation note='In addition to the main text of the post, if you see any text highlighted in transparent red — like “explain” is, here — you can hover over it ... [/annotation] — over time, in all the ways we can reasonably measure. As you can see on

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  . Sound cheerful! BE cheerful! IT’S SO EXCITING TO BE HERE! Hi! Thank you ... something. Know as much as you can about the Member of Congress and the ... information. If I can be a resource for you, please don’t hesitate to contact me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high ... phrase to NYTMITSISATEE?), because, well, I’m a n00b.* As in, I-can ... database, I mean my brain) – PYTHON. As you can probably imagine, I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  floor in the world is my home. I live on the third floor of the east ... Crichton, and he is not that intelligent. He is known as Derp Cat. As you can see, he is very derpy. Derp Cat is not smart. He is not smart at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  :     Chad ’13, in the green shirt, stopped by the kitchen for ... . Chad is majoring in Course 22 (Nuclear Engineering). Devin ’13 is ... in Zimbabwe and Hungary. Devin is Course 18 (Math). Cory ’13, a Course

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011