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  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... Quadir (head of MIT's Program in Developmental Entrepreneurship and founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  is 221 feet at a 75-degree angle. It reaches speeds of 77 miles per ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2015! Happy New Year

  

  degree of arbitrariness to the numbers that demarcate and discretize the ... joke well in advance, and is currently staging a protest in form of a soreness that has persisted over the last two hours. My room is a mess of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  Today, the Class of 2012 formally register for classes and thus ... sense of their individual achievements, passions, and dreams can be harder. So this summer, I watched the news wire for stories of incoming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  The idea of taking a gap year, like to most, initially terrified me. Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... my decision, I spent a lot of time sitting and thinking. There’s much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  -druhdruhdrum sound of the crossing signal on Mass Ave is still audible as you pass ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... Office of Digital Learning (aka ODL - the same fine folks who bring you ... things about MIT - the people, the research, the facilities, etc. - none of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  message of love! Is Madeline here?”—Madeline raised her hand—“Would you like to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were in the room. “Madeline,” one of them said, “meet the Logs.” And then

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The ... applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Where WAS I? Honestly? I still don't know.

  

  I am starting to run out of excuses for when I disappear for long periods of time and then come back mysteriously with scratches on my face and the arm of my coat ripped three-quarters of the way off. I always

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  year was of those "hypothetical situations" where a boat is crossing a ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my ... ’s just so freaking cute! Of course, he’s totally in love with Veronica and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  time I cross a street. My international friend finds all of this entirely ... culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Got Solar? guest post by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20

  

  *written by Peter C'20 and Ashisha P'20 (members of MIT SEVT) as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest post series* We did it ... crossed! Unbelievable Scenery at Scottsbluff, NE PC: Ashisha Persad On the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 6, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guide to MIT: Academics requirements, resources, and miscellaneous info

  

  —WELCOME PREFROSH!!! The sections of this post are: 1. Degree Requirements ... to catalog.mit.edu) The degree program currently consists of: 6 ... . It is the first installment of the Guide to MIT (coming next

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 6, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  first Cross-Continental Solar Car race. "One of the very most important ... On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  of Intuition   The deadline to accept college admissions offers is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I’ve learned about making decisions in life. Some of you probably received offers

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Painting with the Colors of the Wind reflections on the first MIT semester

  

  We need to sing with all the voices of the mountains. We need to paint with all the colors of the wind. — Pocahontas from Pocahontas I ... first semester of college is done. Its climax reminds me of a promise from

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 23, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Optimal Solution It doesn't exist

  

  cannot possibly be processed to the highest degree of accuracy for ... My first two weeks of GEL kicked off to a great start. I really like ... excuse of coffee since neither of us is a fan. One of his questions posed

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • September 30, 2014