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• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life ... say. In actuality, it's a tolerable idea up to the fourth floor, at which point it starts to become a pain-in-the-knee idea, progressing to a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  , I truly planned to get my life together enough that I could post and ... thought about if I would get fired[/annotation] but was too scared to ask ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1 ... done and knew that I had to get tested. I had my blood drawn and sent to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  Previous me wrote in a blogpost that I "did not want to write about ... obliged to finish. That was a great tactic back in middle school, when I had ... other one about Vikings that I had to read because I was quarantined in an

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of ... Child was a cook, not a chef. She grew up in Pasadena, CA, went to Smith ... settled in Paris, where Julia began to take lessons at Le Cordon Bleu

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  should try to move in some direction. I wish I were more convincing, or ... present in the world. That's really all there is to it. romance ... , very fortunate that this is even a choice I get to make. Two: At MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  money stopes coming in from the football program, we will have to get it ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to ... ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  values. So in order to get that, you need to make sure that you don’t crash ... . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go-to ... ’s journey with Henk Rogers to get the game out of Soviet Russia. One of the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  my quantum pset 4. Watching the Obama/Romney debate *In order to "see ... spins do matter to the hydrogen atom. If the particles are spinning in the ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  and games either. In writing classes, there are essays to write, speeches to give, and presentations to make. In Japanese classes, there are texts to memorize, drills to practice, and grammar to study. In Art

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  available until next year, but I hope to be first in line to get some.   ... inventions in the world. Radar, modern lithium-ion batteries, canned soup, and ... incoming hazards and obstacles. The demonstrated use case is to avoid

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  cooperate and we can get back on the water well in advance of spring break ... So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer ... (global warming must be playing its part), we still trekked down to Florida

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  wants to have in Boston that day. Who knew it snowed in Boston?? (Just ... venture into Boston to get some froyo, then you can walk around campus and ... .... BUT my partner in crime Preeti '15 managed to grab a nice shot of our

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  take a picture of you (and any MIT '12s with you) and send it in to me ... MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In ... here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  week ago, and I’m more settled in now. I’m still getting the feel of my ... ’ve turned in my first pset, gone to my first office hours (and then second ... . I feel like I’ve slogged through so much high school just to get to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  will happn but hey, you gotta have goals in life, right? We get to have ... for it.... "Yes! I got a 66!" Here's what I'm trying to get across ... 're asking you to combine two concepts in a way you never tried before. So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  11/6 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions answered or ... Friday 11/6/20 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions ... in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... friends asked me if i wanted to get an apartment with them. i agreed

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents Too… ...enjoy your visit!

  

  more. I was fortunate that my family decided to take a vacation in New ... students get involved in and lead campus activities and athletics that help ... When I arrived at MIT to start my freshman year I had never been on

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  extracurricular activities in an effort to fill this section. NOTE: the application ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... ’ll see (my secret hope is that they’ll invite me to join again in my Senior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007