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  Biking in Boston Breaking out the bicycle.

  

  , and the varying degrees in between. I always recommend driving (or ... Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood's new policy, which states that "walking and ... states and municipalities competing for federal highway funds to include

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Putting Diversity into Context The diverse ways that colleges and universities define diversity

  

  this to be true, but most students are unwilling to state this outright ... wrong area. Many colleges and universities value multiple forms of ... college or university because they are likely to both take advantage of the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  telling you about a steel fork? Well, at Lame-vard University, studying for your degree in Something Lame, you might have freshman classes like

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  For anybody too young to have seen my name at the top of the recent entries page before, I'm Mollie. I graduated in 2006 with degrees in biology ... in developmental neurobiology at that other university in Cambridge

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... I’d offer a list of 10 things that I love about MIT (in no particular ... classes offered through the Sloan school and some of the pre-med lab

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in postwar Canada") The Kansas and Colorado State Boards of Education ("for ... to applaud in public" and the Belarus State Police for "arresting a one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  senior year of high school at the Penn State Schreyer Honors College as an ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my ... . I didn't relate to the predominant culture of the university, and I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  offered frequently throughout the week for multiple hours at a time, as well ... ourselves with Arduino and C++ by incorporating a basic state machine ... [/embed] I used a finite state machine with 3 states: IDLE, CLAP, TURN. It

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -and-pasting, the entropy of the universe will not increase as much as it would had I ... , unspringy mattress involved creaking wood and 45-degree wobbling. I had about

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  context, obstacles, and critical periods Why don’t you just get over it?

  

  the richest university in the world. Her campaign’s top priorities ... universities which were usually selective universities. There are also threads on ... would get a job offer in America that would move the whole family. It was

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 12, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Into the Smoke In more ways than one.

  

  state-mandated labour. And the apprehension I had in Tel Aviv – that too ... , I have worked at a university, a non-profit, and, now, a for

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  tournament by Rowan University. This week, I met with two players from this ... school team to two state championships. Looking at their lists of

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Back in Time I change my clock back three hours and read headlines on the magazine of the…

  

  Francisco to Boston - and the last time I was on an airplane, I'd envisioned

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  She worked so hard and got into all the state schools she applied to ... Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... internships, and of the 20+ gigs I applied to, I got one offer, six rejections

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Queer at MIT, but not on the blogs the map is not the territory, but it's getting closer

  

  consequences for being out in their home country or state. This is not to say ... discretion in being out, and to offer a more comprehensive view of LBGTQ ... that feature gay content, like Steven Universe or Yuri on Ice, media that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  nine, one of my high school teachers took a couple of us on an out-of-state ... and people, puzzled by the existence of an outside world—a state that is ... had to observe each of them carefully and offer feedback between laps

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  version of 6.006 to tech professionals and university students in Addis ... Water was formed at Ethiopia’s Mekele University. It started when Matt ... university. They wanted to have a sort of base, similar to Mekele University

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Choosing Your Own Adventure and other things you can do when you live off campus

  

  my landlord's. This can be very variable in degree of outrageousness ... you live off campus is so variable, there's no way to make a universal ... a lot of other cities. Much like with the T-pass, MIT also offers a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself on choosing a college, and realizing one of many possible futures

  

  . My options, as I saw them then, were a local public university where ... local university and gone on to do some pretty cool things. I expected him ... , I opened an email. It was an unexpected, unsolicited job offer from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  , completing your degree, landing a great job, etc. Now that I’m out on my own ... level, it was burnout. Working 2 shifts leaves you in a numbing state

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016