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• Blog / How to Human

  Observations of an MIT Sophomore Advice and insight.

  

  all MIT students. MIT is one of the few institutions in the world that ... for the next four years without having to be (as) afraid of failure ... the luxury of being within walking distance of one of the world

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  had left the nation in the dust in terms of concrete technology! (At ... , no, I am not one of those people. Not just because I’m busy and ... a few seconds in my brain), I deduced the entire plot of the film

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  of things that are making me happy but there were these pesky exams ... Growing up there wasn't a kid at school who didn't dream of robotic suits and futuristic extensions of the human body, whether it was Doctor

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  About 6.5 years ago, I graduated with a Philosophy degree and a minor ... ’m going to explain and sprinkle some of my artworks throughout—here’s piece ... recap of what I did between graduating and becoming a full-time artist (in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  Write about Tea (with tea (with Paige))

  

  insane degree. Coffee was a part of my identity in,,, perhaps an almost ... CJ historian but for the history of myself throughout the years, and ... history book in the form of blogposts). And when I first started out

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... school year of studying. Luckily, MIT understands that its students ... in 34-401 (A room at MIT where a lot of EECS events take place) talking

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  12 years of public school education could do for me. I started applying to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I graduate. This is my promise. So similar to the list of parameters

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  understands the power of good research institutions--which are first made by ... in Ghana--a research institute of sorts, for younger students. He ... Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what ... 've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions ... fundamental confusion between our admissions process and the results of that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  institute so far has finished. It's the natural motion of the world. More ... Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and ... % of my experience at MIT was being a first year, and man did it feel

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  years, the institutional memory of student groups and dorm culture fades ... anything but a kind of pure, unadulterated hope for the coming semester. It's a feeling that I haven't felt in a long time—even the most exciting of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  disciplines (scientific research, civil rights, freedom of speech, human rights ... are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being ... , and is consistent with a set of key principles, including non

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  see, in my family of five, we all like apple juice so much that if we ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple juice. I’ve been waiting most of my teenage years for the freedom to drink

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On sleep There's nothing certain in this world but sleep and taxes.

  

  's often in the back of people's minds when they're thinking about MIT: do you crazy kids ever get any sleep? Of course we do. I mean, for one ... of my very favorite things in life, which is somewhat sensible if you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT ... , my roommate, hard at work measuring the length of a wall.) Of course

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  proud of my institution! A small subset of the MIT '09s who spoke ... of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  the while evaluated by seven institute professors in the back of the ... good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  will learn at MIT is not a collection of facts, but how to think about ... takes away from the Institute. Hence tests. In Laura's entry, Eric asked ... cards and reference sheets; a lot of my upper-division biology classes are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  of centering humans in all technological endeavors. The only time I ... died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. For many of our readers, I suspect Woodie needs no

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019