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  FINAL TERM ATTACK Like a black light attack, only it's not like that at all.

  

  On Monday, I managed to trip and fall down half a flight of stairs ... ordered. Three hours later, I tripped over my own shoes and fell up a flight ... -inspired mural of a sad crying clown in an iron lung. Oh, and I was singing songs

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT, and we have offered early admission to 656. These students hail ... log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to ... different things — construction and cross-stitch, algorithms and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  This post is about the classes I'm taking - and is a case in xkcd ... III (Waves and Oscillations) Professor van Oudennarden (pronounced “ow ... to some speakers, and turned up the volume (I covered my ears) until it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hug Your History Teacher Because it's 9/11

  

  and took this picture. So, as a licensed history teacher in the state ... controversy, we just had a blogger deftly navigate an analysis of the Penn State ... tower is still standing with that huge gaping hole in it." And then

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • September 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-contest: Your Application Reflections I'd like to share your application experiences.

  

  , and home state or country. There is no prize for "winning" except that I ... for you to share your thoughts and feelings with a broader audience. My ... feels like to apply to colleges overseas or out of state. The pressures

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  headshots, more interviews, and then Chris had a job! After the job offer we ... was. Let's say I went to John Q. Public University and was a Comp ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  really left this place. I just lurk and cruft and linger in the tunnels ... , now I work here running this thing, and my office is off main campus so ... . shameless self-promotion (why else) and 2. if you're seeing this, it means

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... ...close enough). I was a little jittery. I set three alarms that morning, and ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  's sort of backwards when you look at MIT undergraduate dorms and their ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a ... , East Campus, Senior Haus, and Random Hall are "East" (even though Random

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  optimization and low-level programming languages during my master’s degree, which ... article about Gen Z and the job market. As you can see, the word ... what I remember (please note my memory is faulty and not subject to the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in ... help bring MPG here, in no small part because math is awesome and math girls are awesome and MPG is awesome and we like to have as much awesome

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  to Solid State Chemistry. Professor Don Sadoway, arguably the best and ... (tonight's showings apparently include Gankutsuou 2-3 and Paranoia Agent 1 ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  visit a few more out-of-state schools—I’m from Maryland, and didn’t want ... further away for me, so in the interest of research—and inspired by a bunch ... transfer to my most recent laptop and could only be found in my old Hotmail

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be ... 's say you're a student who's interested in MIT, and you want to continue ... going to open mic sessions and symphony hall performances - if you end up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  !"]self-care and destress routine. [/annotation] Watching Steven Universe The Movie ... ="how???"]now [/annotation], and were recently discussing how much this reminds us of senior ... to that extra scholarship and that extra school. Now, we are staying up

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  .  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... -on-one conversations with students about their dreams and aspirations, and I hope that I ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2019 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  this process are the so-called Interactive Introduction to the Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the '90s and early '00s, these were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  respects: Vice President Joe Biden, MIT President Rafael Reif, and Sean ... demonstrate the values and character of Officer Collier. And his family has ... -Farber Cancer Institute in Boston.

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We now interrupt our regularly-scheduled programming… I tried getting ahead on my reading assignments but that only lasted so long.

  

  ) because even though the Institute was on "lateness excused" policy and some ... something mildly funny that happened this morning and then I was all, "Why am I telling you this? I should blog about it." and then he was all, "You

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 3, 2011