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  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  TEDxCambridge 2013 official photos page. Psst: I'm in 3 of these ... , that gives 84 TED talks you can watch in your rapidly diminishing waiting ... thoughts, you'll become more illuminated in 84 topics. That can be useful no

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  qualities of the game that you can't avoid, in the same way that I can't avoid ... I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... in the future. I can just do my best now and see where that takes me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they ... that many people, and I spent a lot of my time that semester in one place ... they've made meanwhile I've kept all my abstractly creative ideas in my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  several years back when I was in junior high. What do you think occupied several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby ... starting my own company? Heh...nope. I played "Splish Splash", of course

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  encouragement in these stories of students like these. edit: A few days later, I ... . Thankfully, I haven't paid much attention to that last bit of advice. In terms ... In May 2016, I wrote Denied by MIT, 5 Years Later, where I shared the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  gulped down the wetness in the air like I imagine a fish would if it, and not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my ... Washington, and I'm from the valley in Oregon, so we feel the same way on days

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... true meaning of IHTFP. MIT can be a wonderful or awful place depending on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions ... … all I can really think of is the places. The infinite. Killian Court

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when ... : I can't say much about Residence Based Advising since I never went ... residence hall and participates in activities with you there. What I think

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 2 Slowing down time in the Land of Enchantment.

  

  I'm currently on the MedLinks retreat; it feels good to get out of ... . I noticed that my first two weeks in Albuquerque - when everything was ... work alone. I walked two and a half miles in the dry Albuquerque heat

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  , you all came to mean more than i can say. i graduated in summer 2013 ... in a few weeks, or in a few years, I hope that you can do that too." i ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  , I turned the page, and went on, shuddering in a rising tide of despair ... free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test ... inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  i could sit in front of the piano, know where all the keys were ... good at piano as i used to be, and i can get back to 100% with a bit of ... keep an up-to-date ranking of the order in which i’d drop each of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  begins: Can the United States remain competitive in the changing global environment? Newsweek asked 15 leaders in the fields of science, technology ... anytime soon. I find this sort of depressing, but I find a lot about human

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reg Day collisions People should transfer to other colleges once they dump you.

  

  professors and even a couple of administrators, I've been involved in what must ... how eventful it was....everything was sort of...boring. I woke up early ... adventures in Italy (which I still haven't told you about, man I'm bad at this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part ... question in the space of the question I had left and I went ahead that way. I ... then cheated, like an idiot! So of course he got caught, and I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  rejection letter. And the best way I can think of to calm your nerves right ... decimal places (yes yes, in honor of the class of 2015 because I love y ... the fact that I hadn't gotten in and only checked my account to confirm

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of ... First of all, I want to say that I do 90% Skype interviews, and 10% in ... -person interview would be difficult. Of course, I prefer doing in-person interviews

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14.21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You should consider studying economics if… for those who aren't totally set on what to major in

  

  already be familiar with my experience of choosing a major. In summary, I ... about the ethics of what we owe to people in need, I ask them to imagine ... clear about our obligations to rescue the drowning child in front of us, I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 8, 2016