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  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  like their schools would, roommates that probably had a weird habit of ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  are grad school in Aeronautics/Astronautics and hopefully a couple of ... you've completed both semesters of Unified Engineering- a series designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan ... good friends of mine got it all started again and threw one off the ... a piano onto a model of the caltech cannon Bryan: how do you get work

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  a sample of laptop stickers of MIT. These types of blogs are less ... thousands of other people at the institute who experience MIT just as deeply ... : Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  , now you know why."]in the auditorium of the new Welcome Center ... . Kornbluth, the current provost of Duke University, as MIT's 18th President ... press passes to attend the announcement, on account of the blogs.']In her

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  inside of my bottom lip. If you've been lucky enough to never experience them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of ... layer of skin dissolves, exposing the nerve endings, so whenever the sore

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  : 1) people are afraid of new things, 2) you can always find ... other metric of engagement that exists are completely meaningless. It was ... portion of their time on Earth? Then, at the pit of my despair, I had

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  What’s Happening at McCormick? Guest Post by MC^2's REX Chairs

  

  Hi!  We are the REX chairs of Mccormick (Adina G. ‘22, Camellia H ... first 6 letters of the alphabet, we made sure that REX this year at Mccormick represents the culture, sense of community, and overall fun you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 27, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  home. There are things I miss about real home too. Like my high school friends, or my mom's cooking, or the generally lethargic mood of my old ... first week of classes, I don't think I've ever taken a day off to relax

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable ... ducks instead of koi fish) Oh, and every room comes with one of these

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  One of Danny B.D’s many contributions to the MIT community, along ... ;n> without going through all the work of actually being <n>? Build a Course <n> CourseRoad! It’s like a hyper-speed micro-simulation of

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  Whenever I hear the term “open house,” I think of panthers. Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas ... this carpet sporting a bright “Go Longhorns” shade of orange, and a life

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  my junior year of high school. Like the majority of angsty high ... bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 1) De Madrid, ¡saludos!

  

  . When I took Spanish in high school, it was 50-minutes of class, and then ... on at MIT): 6. I'm in Europe because of 21F.782, which is a Spanish II ... scope of a semester-long language course, which means 3 hours of class

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I’m not a double major anymore Because four years of insanity would totally cramp my style?

  

  but me. (My high school had a medical magnet program that I was enrolled ... to be a doctor. I've been taking science classes purely out of interest ... major because there were a ton of chemistry classes that I wanted to take

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program, Khademhosseini has recently been named one of Technology Review’s Top 35 Young Innovators of 2007 for his inventive tissue

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007