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• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  -founder of the Families and Work Institute. “Everyone needs to have more than ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Meetings… I hope you'll attend the event near you.

  

  admitted students. The events are designed to provide you and your families ... know about the Institute. It's also a great way to meet other admitted students from your area as well as MIT alums, current students and parents

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 24, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  Institute are elaborate—but benign—practical jokes perpetrated anonymously on ... creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution. A 1958 prank in which the ... American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  method of scientific teaching and that of premed-prominent universities in ... scrubs, and pretend that I was on Grey's Anatomy. My preceptor was Dr. Lee ... Gregor, and there was an official Course XIX (Meteorology - but of course, an

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... On September 24, MIT admissions blogging and His Holiness the Dalai ... . The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that Emad and I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  'cause they'll just backstab you mentality. Everyone is fake and they ... much about myself, the world around me, and others throughout those past ... during my sprint. I've spent this past semester doing so much and learning

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  degree, she also...became a beauty queen! And now, she's a happily ... earning his master's degree at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, and he had ... that everyone is an incredibly awkward ugly nerd with acne and backne and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  face facts, and we turn passionately toward the future. Today, however ... leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is ... than other cities, Yan Z., frequent superiority in jazz, Yan Z., and ... association sponsored a luncheon today for the acceptees and their genetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  various forums about ambition and achievement. Simultaneously you hear "you can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , unearthed a lost (literally: it had been misnamed and misfiled) MIT Admissions ... ; I'd seen (and we've posted) MIT: The Movie (1992), which was ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ." - William Barton Rogers, Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology (1860 ... 're still heads-down reading applications and meeting in committee. No final ... introductory coursework but advising, major exploration, and so on. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  MIT ever since they were little, and the letter also stated what each ... Boston's area code?" And Shopaholic wrote, "I am from out of state and is ... President Shirley Jackson '68 (left) and Cambridge University Vice Chancellor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my ... soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... ." And it did work. And even today, more than 20 years later, it still does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  , and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and ... and Social Entrepreneurship categories have included well-known names, like Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Malala Yousafzai. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  .01: Physics Mechanics, 3.091: Solid-State Chemistry, 21F.076: Globalization, and ... -explanatory, and to be completely honest as they’re mostly General Institute ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  signaling that I am bisexual. When I state that I am a computer science and ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022