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  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003) spent this evening at MIT. Though she was born in London and raised in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunny day – Sweepin’ the clouds away On my way to where the air is sweet.Can you tell me how to get,…

  

  I was reading Evan's most recent entry and I noticed that he ... awesome as it is to wake up 10 minutes before a class and not get to eat ... and plan their meals. I know, right? I mean, who has time for that? Ever

  • by Snively '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  . :-) What can you tell me about next fall's Orientation and Pre ... Center (ARC) and not by Admissions, so I'm not really an expert on those ... .mit.edu/orientation. You'll find various dates and ARC contact information there. What is

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  Thursday off (it was a holiday for MIT people). But Weds, Fri, Sat, and now ... - that I'll get faster with experience. I wish Matt would offer a seminar though. He's been doing it forever and he's amazing. He'll look at files

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  in 4) and is even notably lower than it was for this year's MIT seniors ... waitlist, to 739 students. We do not know how many will accept their offer of ... from last year) and 730 critical reading. But I think that this year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  's often very windy, and that day it was about -8 degrees C. But inside the ... , and they took me on a tour so that I could tell you about all the super ... that way. The Radio Society taught me about the various antennae and took

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  talk to people! from the person least qualified to give this advice

  

  I'm halfway to my bachelor's degree which is exciting but also nerve ... through the back-front door and I check in to my room. It's hot and it's quiet and it smells a little funny. I don't feel very different. If I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  which have not seen that in a year and a half. The torch of institutional ... buildings and more trees, rebranded restaurants and abandoned stores. The ... school? With that sari-sari store selling overpriced school supplies and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  simply curious. And then there are the blank stares - the heavy gazes of ... this orphanage, giving donations, and implementing new programs for ... children had just lost their parents, their homes, and their country. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first ... awesome shop guys (particularly Bill and Tasker). I built my first gearbox and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  ." So I took this all into consideration, and I have come to the conclusion that I want to start eating healthy and keeping track of what I am eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Sneak Preview (to next) Weekend let's just pretend I managed to backronym CPW in the title

  

  bit and plug it here. The other event is running on Friday and Saturday ... combination of fun and information out of your CPW: Make friends. You'll stay ... . Plus, it's a lot more fun to roam freely through events and around campus

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  from you and the due date was last Friday. You can have an extension ... those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your ... 12 pages written, and sketchy headers for the next 7 or so sections

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Takin’ My Time I've got to keep on chasin' a dream...

  

  .020 group final project...and so on. Not to mention, the next issue of MURJ is almost ready to hit the presses, which means the chief editors and production staff - Melis, Dawn '08, Hannah '09, Ivana '11, and me - have been

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  in the United States are women, and that number drops to 17.9% by ... are women -- nearly twice the national average. And what's more, by ... & Computer Science is 38% women. And even better, women are the majority of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... the new friends I made, and end with some sage advice that I would give ... 've sure learned a lot of lessons and made a lot of friends, but I've made

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  of just helps me gauge my offers and remember my goals. Blog every ... View my 2020 resolutions and 2021 resolutions. There were some 2020 ... great connecting and networking with so many different companies and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  warning, the sun suddenly just breaks through out of nowhere and illuminates ... and running to tell the rest of my siblings. I may have cried a little ... enjoyable and rewarding for you and your families as it was for me. The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  hated science at the back of every one of my classes?" And, well... he ... diverse, as I rose up through honors-level and advanced placement courses, I ... Herd," who constantly competed for the top GPA and class rank whenever

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  days, see how the institute has changed, and go to snazzy events together ... , earn a bit of money, and begin exploring some random careers. I ... science and media. But, in waiting for the summer session to start, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014