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  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  floor is dating Loop, the southern half of the second floor, flowers and ... day rolls over, by Random Hall Standard Time. Destiny, the southern half of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in

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

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  surplus of academic jobs currently, so getting an offer from a place like ... ultimately got offers from two of those after interviewing at four. You can ... a couple of years ago for those of you who are just now wrapping up

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  the sunny California Bay Area, where temperatures are above fifty degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  which an institution offers you glory, but at the cost of sacrificing ... accomplished what I set out to do: earn my graduate degree…at the cost of ... Take in the familiar sights, smells, and faces of your community. Can

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Livin’ La Vida PRoCa I take my clothes off and go dancing in the rain... with Clay Aiken.

  

  Aiken concert Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. Though I'm by far the biggest fan of American Idol at MIT, I was still a little ... imagine that you're walking toward that venue, with the intention of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For those of you interested in keeping a running tally, we're up to 15

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Meet the baby bloggers! you have to read that to the tune of meet the flintstones

  

  welcome to: Alice L. '24 of California, who definitely has not drunk cell ... on if she'll do it again) Ana R. S. '22 of California (and a lot of ... California, who helped make last year's Pi Day video, is the queen of computer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Meet Dennis Hopper. That was a portrait taken of him by Charles Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art lottery that

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  the moon(that was used by my school's team( I was a leader of that!) that reached the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition) - ( obviously an infintesimal of Prof. Schrock's research!) I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  apparently on the northern side of the train, and I am seated on the southern ... This is part two of a series, consisting of a lightly-edited compilation of notes from my cross-country train trip from Boston to San

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  /humanities) or 21E (for engineering/humanities). For either of these degrees, you ... degree that indicates both fields of concentration. If none of these ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  Gillespie received an envelope from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Not just any envelope, but the fat one, with a letter of admission ... measure. He wanted to go to the Art Institute of Atlanta and study cooking

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  last year when one of our then-senior bloggers, Melis, was named a Rhodes Scholar. This year's list of winners includes not one but two awesome MIT ... biographies of Alia and Matt from RhodesScholar.org (links mine), followed by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? ...about the legend of RB Woodward? RB Woodward, MIT SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy to determine the structure of organic compounds. This is about as

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  At MIT, there are two weeks between the last day of finals and commencement. The second of those two weeks is called Senior Week: the class council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  (This entry courtesy of the free wireless internet at the Hotel ... of glad I'm interviewing for graduate programs this year while writing the blog, because I get to impart all kinds of advice from an almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  separate according to density and the initial degree of intermixing**. Voila ... Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  , and Southern whites, who sought to inflate the population of ... ensured that a Southern slave owner won 12 of the first 16 elections, is an ...  https://www.facebook.com/data4blacklives * * * i'm sad i won't be able to attend most of the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Battle in The Bay a comic

  

  soaking in the California sun and revisiting my childhood dream of becoming ... seeding cells and learning to increase throughput with the use of all kinds of automated machines and processes,  I've found myself genuinely

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Travels Winter break is here!

  

  home in California for the rest of the break. I know, lame, but I spend ... of the CME students are taking advantage of our 6 week winter break to do some heavy duty traveling. Some of the places include: Russia

  • by Cambridge
  • December 4, 2007