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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s a freshman like me doing at Career Fair? hint: I'm not wearing a suit

  

  If you're looking for an in-depth view of Career Fair and all the ... place. You see, I'm a freshman, and therefore my current resume consists ... psets sound fun", and "won bronze medal in third grade spelling bee

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 22, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  I almost missed the Curiosity landing. My friend Daniel and I were ... LCDs on Wikipedia. Suddenly, Daniel grabbed the computer, and pulled the NASA homepage open; I glanced at the clock, and realized that it was 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  active in.  (I learned to fly pre-MIT and probably won't have much time to ... , I am on their mailing list, because they are awesome and frequently do ... ):     It was an F-35 simulator, and I was SUPER STOKED upon

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  vegetables, and then suggesting that I might send the evidence of his misdeeds to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... right path, sometimes things go awry.  I am not perfect and neither are my

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Above MIT The sky's the limit.

  

  Ahoy, prospective students and parents* - and, well, anyone else who ... ! ^^; I'm Piper, an MIT student and College Confidential bum turned ... adventures and exciting things to show you. Starting now. As my first

  • by Piper '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  guest-blog about it, and I figured, hey, science is awesome, MIT is ... *fully punny title and all! Here's Iris: WARNING: There will be shameless ... again—holidays, finals, and high school science competitions! *thumbs up

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  298 Tickets. All for us

  

  recitation for the semester - since we don't have class next Friday, and the following week consists of an orgo exam, and the week after is dead week, and ... , and I'm still not done with work. - I went to get an eye exam at a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  Having endured various planes, trains, buses, and customs officers who don't believe me when I say I'm 19 and instead ask to see parent ... and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest lectures about Haitian culture and sustainable development. At the same time ... nonprofit and check out the e. coli levels in these water sources, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  I got back to Boston from summer vacation September 2, and it's like ... He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well" The devil looked right back at him, and said "Why visit me - You've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  , elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of the MIT community (and sometimes the world), while also providing interesting physical and logistical challenges for their perpetrators. As you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  ! Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh! Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin!), I ... different sports and have won 4 medals including 2 Gold Medals Perhaps unsurprisingly, more than half of the competitors, and all but one of the medals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... movies that were in theaters recently and charge four dollars, but every now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  (in MechE!) from MIT in 1984 and the book is about his educational ... long bike rides to clear your mind and “ah-ha” moments while chatting ... known for being the breeding ground of the next big idea in science and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Keep Holy the Month of IAP For It Is a Time of Rest

  

  IAP, and then maybe I can make it as far back as last semester. Fortunately for me (and those of you who want to hear about 6.111 and my other ... this out and move on. Last IAP I spent almost all of the month working on

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most ... silly to go back and try to write posts about that stuff now, so this post ... founding of the US Navy (on 13 OCT 1775) and US Marine Corps (10 NOV 1775

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Blog: Humanitarian Work At MIT My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new Humanitarian…

  

  My name is Ali Wyne, and I'll be this year's host for the new ... ills that afflict so many. This blog will be for, and about, them. To tell you a bit about me... I'm a senior in Management and Political

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grind Time It = late. Coffee = love. You = intrigued.

  

  Tuesday morning, and Sam '07 also had quite a bit of work to do, but since ... to start working, andI stayed up until 5:00 to finish my essay ... cup of coffee from Au Bon Pain in Kendall Square and drank it during the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  ’d be the person who answers your frantic phone call and then tells you to ... have some block on an inclined plane or something, and you’ve got to ... . Where is theta, and is the component mgsin(theta) or mgcos(theta)? That

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  . Suzan-Lori Parks is a playwright and novelist whose play Topdog ... 's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in life, but confident in his or herself and happy with what he/she has done

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006