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  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

    Last week, MISTI-China interns in Beijing welcomed ... in the Peking Duck - Beijing's most famous dish. Over dinner, we discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  early. I turn a little bit in my bed before...contemplating going back to sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the ... 't feel like doing anything. I just wanna lay in my bed. Yes, I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound ... in India. Last Tuesday was my final day in Anaikatti, when I turned in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... celebration in the Boston Glove interviewed astronaut and MIT alumna Cady Coleman '83. (David L. Ryan/Globe Staff) In an article entitled, "Her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  7:39 PM: It's Sunday night. I have four exams in the next week. Hey ... his homework in a leather briefcase and can run from Random Hall to campus in less than two minutes and once lived in Africa and is actually

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... representing 8 different countries have competed in 27 Olympic Games in 9

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Show your creativity: the Year of the Pig While we continue reading applications full time, another mini-contest.

  

  'll celebrate it with my favorite pig in the world! [I promise you, the below biography is true] Peggy ("Pigasus") Peggy grew up in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, and started her ascent to stardom by starring in the Abercrombie &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... '07 came rushing in with a bowl of salad. "Hey, where're you going ... work stand in the way of food. And seeing as I had been sleeping, as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  I conducted my first of ten meetings this fall in Hartford this week. I think the meeting went quite well; the ~250 people in attendance ... during the Q & A section that had me flummoxed. A young man in the front

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester

  

  policy problems in depth. The problems range from economic growth in the long run to government finances in the intermediate run and economic stability in the short run. Many economic models used today are surveyed

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  masters in aero/astro. He and I are moving into Westgate, which is an MIT ... gone -- don't! I'll be living on campus. You'll probably see me in Laverde's all the time. I'll be continuing to work in my undergrad lab full

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A ... in the Fmaj7 and Bhalf-dim7 chords. Every good theorician knows that in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  glasses, and gloves. If Anna Teytelman, a sophomore in Management Science ... her UROP in such attire, her boss would probably, no, definitely, laugh ... Assistant Professor in the Foreign Languages and Literatures (FLL) Department

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  different high-tech and economic development projects in Buenos Aires, including the MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop actor in a one-woman all ... , obviously) completed PhD in finance at Stanford, research associate at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  , wrote. Interestingly, Abrams is directing Mission: Impossible 3, in which ... in Boston. On the hallway thingy that connects the plane to the airport ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting, so I pulled up today's IAP calendar and realized that in 10 minutes, a director would be screening a really interesting documentary over in Building

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and Cognition," known around MIT as Course 6-9. In this post, I'll describe my ... departments! It was announced in the spring of 2019 and remains MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... :30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021