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  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical ... technique in Venice, Italy after I graduated and then entered a business plan

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Online Decisions To Be Released This Saturday Only a few more days of waiting...

  

  applications and selecting the class in committee. This time next week I'll be enjoying my first day off in quite awhile, and my blogging should return ... being completely awol from the blogs recently. She's right, and I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The World Has Many Trees climb all of them!!

  

  like it was silly to limit what sorts of classes and activities I did in college by what I did or didn't succeed in during high school. I recently ... My parents tell me that when I was two years old, Tarzan was my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • March 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  screen, you can tell that it'll be memorable. Now if you were to take a guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  I saw this installation in the Infinite Corridor. (You can see me ... First off, I hope everyone who came here for CPW had a great timeeeee ... through can look up to a screen and see if there's a hysterical green face

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  things work out following up on confusion

  

  Creating Video Games I used to play video games in middle school, but kind of lost interest in them when I got to high school. So, I never really ... like an outsider in the class since I just haven't played video games in

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 9, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that's what I can offer, because that's what has helped me most this semester ... pushing that into the future. I've tried, and it's not pretty. I can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  which point in a job interview can I ask about salary?"  Stay posted. May ... popular, in fact, that I'm told there was a 50-person waitlist, and my ... me got photographed, so I'm crossing my fingers that I might be in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Student holiday! lots going on!

  

  Johnson Rink, was the Fall Career Fair. I missed in-person career fairs ... years, we get two student holidays in the fall, in accordance to Rules and ... additional vacation periods: — A Friday in September on or after the 15th

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  doing essentially nothing (I'm @ing myself), other MIT students have hit ... ! _,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,__,.-'~'-.,_ Monterrey, Nueva León, México-   After finals, I decided to immediately flee the country, which is what I did through the Big Dreams program. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  somebody can feel like shoving a gift in their face that they didn’t ask for ... , life is precious and tomorrow I could die in a freak accident, so I should ... I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’s flowchart comes in-it takes all the worry out of pre-meet packing. You can ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I ... today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... .06 [Cell Biology]: I ended up dropping this class in the fall, but it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  in person from an applicant when I was working as an EC in the San ... just to feel like he had to impress his interviewer.  In fact, I told him ... : "That is an interesting question. "First, I believe in managing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  electronics. It's where I realized that I can too can be a "maker," that makery ... a Real and Cool form of making. I can speak on Metropolis/The Deep ... frame. But for now I hope I can share with you the joy of melty metal

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  event, here are 20 things that I’m grateful for in my dorm. 1. I live there Can’t say I’m not grateful for that. Moving on… 2. The bathrooms My entire dorm research process summed up in two sentences: I then started

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  in the face with a plateful of whipped irony. Even I can't run and hide ... abandon faith in health insurance and maybe even dentists. When you can ... feel inferior or weirded out or worried about network problems that I can

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  ZOMG...CPW BEGINS TOMORROW!! AHHH! Aren't you super excited?!?!? I ... current student hosts. (If your host hasn't been in touch with you, don ... 't gotten back to him/her yet, do so ASAP so you can work out living

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  about this very hard for a few months, and then in january i read some ... this subject while growing up in the 2010s, but this was the first time i ... , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  Festival. I was unaware of this until I happened upon a food truck giving out ... ' grilled cheese would be here from 3-5pm today. Either 1) I am getting very desensitized to event emails because we get so many every day or 2) I am

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014