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  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  : Number of hurricanes dodged: 1 Meals eaten at Columbia restaurant: 1 ... Dorothy Hernandez, 20, a native of New Orleans who studied architecture at ... efforts. Today at 4pm is my second Central Meeting of the year, in West

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  of media, from USA Today to CNN and space.com. Full article at http ... . The jets shoot off at 175 million miles per hour, 26 percent of light ... in Richmond, VA. I had lunch again at the Steam Cafe, which is turning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  part of my first semester at the institute: 7 classes passed Somehow ... Management), and 14.009 (Intro to Economics in Society). At the beginning of ... screamed at me when I was not taking notes that it was because of kids like

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  ="aligncenter" width="300"] An artist's impression of Ada Lovelace[/caption] At the end ... Classes at MIT will have you looking at a subject from about three ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... from at other schools. And it turns out that, though all of our offices ... out, all of the IvyPlus schools had cut at all of those layers to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  on the grandiose vision of ‘goodness’ I had settled on at the age of ... Charles at midnight. And yet, for all of this, I am still deeply tired ... all ways better than all past versions of myself. I have, at points

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  excuse to sit at one of the cafe tables and [annotation note="I was ... there was one leaving at 2:40 AM, then the next one at 5:30 AM. Neither of ... guy at the counter recommended I find a group of people to split a cab

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  at least once my freshman year when I was a part of the Media Lab ... of having a yearbook photographer at the dress rehearsal." And this is ... photo at the beginning of this blog was taken by Nicholas Wiltsie

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  a whirlwind of learning. I've blogged about teaching at these events ... embarrass ourselves as we teach you about them on the spur of the moment ... night, I randomly pull up three of these prompts randomly, to practice the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  sake of getting this deal. At some point, they started requiring a unique ... , you can read the resistance of a resistor by looking at the four colored ... marveled at the rows and rows of independent comic artists, from published

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  just recently came to visit us at the begining of February to screen Be ... well-fed days of my collegiate life. Lunch was at an organic French ... throwing together everything you have in your refrigerator at the end of term

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  never provide. Yesterday, instead of lining up at midnight for the Black ... instant rush of novelty that consumerism thrives on. And hey, I’m not ... already have. It becomes part of you. My favorite (and well-used) fleece or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wanna be on the Radio? (Update) CPW: T Minus 4 Days

  

  Thanks to everyone who volunteered to write a CPW Blog Entry. At this time, I've got plenty of volunteers from a wide array of backgrounds, so ... most of your CPW experience.

  • by Bryan
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  So this past Saturday, I set out on the open road with some of my friends for a little fun outside of the city. Step One: Acquire vehicle. Now at first, I was a little confused. I didn't know if this was a

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... some more and got it go at a max of 750 rpm. Moral of the story is to be ... Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question "Can you tell me why I didn't get in? Why was I not good enough?"

  

  previous posts, I was heartbroken at some of the people we couldn't take. All of us in admissions were. But at the end of the day, we have x number ... 't get in? Will you look at my app and tell me what I did wrong? Why was I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?

  The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of ... innovation toward climate science, including the Department of Earth
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  about applications for the next round of fellows will be available at 20 ... Yesterday, the Thiel Foundation announced the first class of the "20 Under 20 Thiel Fellows." Though actually numbering 24, all of the Fellows

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  people. FRESHMAN YEAR IS OVER! 1/4 of my time here at MIT is officially ... , passed all of my classes, and am ready to start the next part of life at ... Diffusion, that's what's happening now. Finals, all of them, are

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008