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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  offerings of chemical engineering industry opportunities. Recently, I came upon this one for a junior polymer engineer at a hydrocarbon recovery ... of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to ... My computer reminded me of what we're all thinking. Independent ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Welcome Susan Hockfield A recap of Susan Hockfield's inauguration.

  

  Just got back from the inauguration of MIT's sixteenth president, Susan Hockfield. Both of the office cameras were checked out by others, so ... was fairly packed, with much of the MIT community representing, as well

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  -year undergraduate student at MIT, a math major and one of only five current MIT ... located at the front of the head—produces visual images. Individuals without ... . Perrachione’s advisor John Gabrieli at MIT and Fumiko Hoeft of the Stanford

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... was hanging out with one of my friends at school. we walked through an ... undergrad at mit, and it is a foregone conclusion that most of my friends will

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  this week's competition was 2 hours away at the university of rhode ... girls there are so sweet and good at cooking, so I got to eat a lot of ... volunteer at the MIT Science Olympiad. Being on the other side of all the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  market success at a time when all of our conversations are focusing on the ... passion and at least some of the expertise one associates with the most ... answer," he says. Fan websites offer plot summaries of all the books, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.

  

  only to classes that were offered this fall.) Feel free to add your own favorites. SEM.142 Sex and the [City] Institute: An Exploration of Gender ... students' perceptions and behaviors. Topics of interest will include: dating

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  dinners with friends my wallet is crying

  

  night, i ate dinner at et, one of the independent living groups in mit. i ... square. i have fond memories of eating at gyukaku with a friend group from ... better. the food wasn't too bad, and at least neither of us spent any money

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  distractions are simply part of existence here at MIT. You have to be able to ... phone to look at the time, my heart skips a beat. Noon? Already?!? I planned on waking up at ten at the latest, but both me and my roommate slept

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  research, at least in biology, is driven by questions of cause and effect. If ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... mRNA modifications in yeast. Science has been a major part of my life

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  the TA dutifully sat in a chair at the front of the classroom as Yaffe ... for the first month of the semester. Indeed, it was a sad day. For 1.5 hours three times a week, hundreds of students fill 10-250 (one of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  far into the future, to what happens after you show up at the school of ... offered at MIT, how do I want to spend my free time? How do I want to ... from a lot of new questions). I arrived at a few important points. 1. I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  I don’t know how it started exactly–a nice lug of canvas here, a floppy rectangle of yellow there. I tried my best to retreat under the guise of functionality: this one’s dark enough to hold tubes of paint, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  offer recommendations on behalf of my organization. They also designated ... things: all that training at the beginning of the summer to be an analyst ... since it was a thing of the then distant future. Now, here I am, smack dab

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  are then sent out to at least one of 57 Regionals across the world. Then, at Regionals, they'll compete against a field of dozens for the chance ... subset of students who participate in FIRST and those who enroll at MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  with any degree of force until I noticed my partner stumble when I kicked ... Copenhagen that I haven't tried in a while. I took a pole class, a week of krav ... because my logic approaching inversions had been based off of trapeze, where

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Boston Adventure #1 at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair here. Boston Adventure #2 at the Institute of Contemporary Art here ... offered literary treasures under white tents. In the nearby churches and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  ? No. At some point, there’s too much scatter between a set of options ... graduated, Arthur offered to put me in touch with a medievalist at Caltech ... ; *         *        *   I used to think of decision-making as a complicated optimization

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016