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  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  ”, from the University of Warwick. I first read about it in the Math ... and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cooking for Myself I haven't set off the fire alarms yet!

  

  **Edit: tagline no longer accurate as of 11/16/2015. Whoops! I don ... on making yummy food, and making a lot of it. Cooking is a social event ... been a mini-celebration of the good things in life. Good food brings a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  University of Southern California, for instance, had a mission score only 80 ... On Sunday morning the Design/Build/Fly team rolled out of bed at 6:30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up ... it any other way. The home of MIT rowing is the Pierce Boathouse ... think of the boathouse as kind of a second home. It’s where half my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... Intelligence, and if there's a class I'm investing a lot of effort into this ... Learning. Wednesday, 11 AM. Stayed for the entire class. I took part of this

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  A few nights ago I insinuated that there was a list of questions ... work? Is the program composed of self-starters, with very little peer ... work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The word meaning "the closest approach of an orbiting ... floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... Target refrigerator from Omaha, NE in the back of your parents' minivan

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading ... Xerox (India).  Sara Hernandez Class of 2015 MIT-India Program ... unforgettable moments! Becca Hung Class of 2011 MIT-Germany Program 2010

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  of Math & Science Sacramento, CASaturday, September 9, 2006 at 3:00 p ... Country Club Plaza If you're in one of these areas, I look forward to seeing you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing MIT Illuminations at the Welcome Center

  

  included a list of creative touches we had added to the space to make it feel ... ) Today is the day of that loud blog, because last week we officially ... Illuminations in MIT News where I am quoted telling some of the story of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 19, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  actual lottery keeps getting delayed, but the actual process of ranking dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who [annotation note="we were allowed to staple with a group of up to eight people

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  I wasn't actually planning on writing a start of semester post this ... I've consistently done this type of post for [annotation note ... moment, like a lot of the shit Trump is constantly trying to pull, whether

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  2.009 It's not a class, it's a way of life

  

  for mechanical engineering students (aka gotta take one of them to graduate). The premise of this class is to ideate, design, build, and present a brand new product by the end of the semester. 1 Unifying theme

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 28, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  you Stanford!!!!* So by now you might think you have a fair idea of ... past weekend, Snively and I were invited to be a part of a start ... beauty of it. You take notes just like you do with a normal pen and paper

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  about the Michigan Institute of Technology, for example) 3. Be ... Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... description of the current interview process is posted here.  Here in Cambridge

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  that added another degree of freedom. I tested out some options on the ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of ... 4-5 minutes to engage a panel of judges (representing all 5 academic

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  describing the entirety of my visit, you can check out Mitra's entry on the ... New York at 11:00 AM. Of course, the Fung Wah Bus Company hurriedly ... their website, but I'm not good at this kind of thing anyway. Anyhoo, four

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  spectra that someone at the University of Tartu in Estonia measured ... % pure silk” scarves as gifts. However, I was skeptical of these scarves as ... they want. I was convinced that these scarves were made of some

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025