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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And here I am!

  

  Well, I'm back in the States. I thoroughly enjoyed everything but I ... five thousand miles of fishing line and a solid hook? :-) I've long ... , and a bunch of photos during this coming week. Stay tuned!

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  around 6:30 PM, around 65 degrees Fahrenheit, and above me I could feel the ... profession? Sorry to those of you who have actual careers like car-washing and ... of college life, self-deprecation, making fun of Harvard, and (best of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  Questions about class plans Nehalita asked about class plans, and I ... take outside the General Institute Requirements. (If you're only doing ... four classes per term for eight terms and it will almost certainly come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  concerned about the financial state of Iceland and wanted to lend his ... . Dan Sarewitz, a professor of science and society at Arizona State University, said calling Obama a geek is unfair both to the president-elect and

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  and are the experiments you do designed by yourself or postdocs, professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... professors whose work looked interesting, including my resume and a short cover

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... and I request to defer my enrollment until the term beginning: And then

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  the way around the world from my home in the States, the Observatory was once home to the Prime Meridian and is the world's oldest working ... photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  and then I’ll swing by to give an update on life from the other side. It’s more of an “I now live a post-MIT life and therefore my weekly updates do ... about two questions: why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT, and why I was keen to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  a fifteen-minute bus ride. Or MIT and Boston University, or MIT and ... I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  feelings and activities that aren't directly Institute-related... these ... in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  What if my country has a different academic calendar?

  Zealand, Brazil, South Africa, and other countries in the southern ...  high school or wait until they graduate. We suggest students apply to university in their home country and begin studies while they wait to learn their
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  other universities, and see if I could find anything about their history ... and production of the Institute's publications. So this gives us another ... adapted Universe typeface. It is simple and straightforward enough to work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Was Deferred And it was not the end of the world

  

  the president of the United States and pulled an all nighter chilling with my new best friends and a bunch of current and future nobel laureates. I get home exhausted, and I suddenly remember that the time was 6

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  who, like me, has had to drop a child at a large state university in a ... length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the pipes hanging from the ceiling, when my son looked over with a smile and

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  average high temperature of 36 degrees and an average low of 22 degrees ... around an extremely pleasant 65 degrees! My classmates and I took advantage ... guitar, basket of food, and blanket), and I was pretty envious. I chose to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  and is a member of Northeastern University's Class of 2024. Since I left ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  and solid-state physics. Taking 6.004 (computational structures) and 6 ... ’m a course 3 (materials science and engineering) major. Rightfully so, too – I’m taking 3.010 (structure of materials) and 3.019 (symbolic and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  how to sail against the wind on tacking

  

  extremes of thirty degrees. we headed against the wind, tacking back and ... 's day, john invited me and two other members of my team, joseph and claire ... us. he took three chopsticks and arranged them as he explained. one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 22, 2022
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  -owned university, and whose students will be visiting us on Wednesday. These students ... Our first full day in Haiti yesterday was exciting and informative ... radio and sound trucks, and going into the camps and putting on plays on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact same taste in music: classic rock, blues, and jazz, and that's pretty ... this unwritten pact (well, I guess it's written now) which states that if

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008