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  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  ) and told us we would get 12:00 - 2:00 with Steven Levitt in early ... -selling author, though, he's a pretty busy guy. We were pretty lucky to get him for ... I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  move. While it only takes 2 minutes a day to do this, you can get as ... 's campus tournament! So have some fun, get closer to your dorm-mates and ... in on what's been happening. I'm not really at liberty to explain what

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped to pick up Boston Symphony Orchestra college cards. I haven't actually had the chance to use mine yet, but at the ... . Wait, it's free?! I'm getting one ASAP." And thus, it was decided that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  free time to participate in competitions, take a class in something you’ve always wanted to learn, hang out with friends, or do research in the lab ... get to some of the area’s most fun and picturesque spots, including the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  a 9 pm flight at 7 pm, it was too late. I need to get my eyes checked ... the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  . :-) Physics is a continual thorn in my side, but everything else seems to be ... on. I continue to lean toward a major in management science, with a ... went for a walk around downtown Boston. I hadn't talked to my Dad in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  Under 30 Lists in 2016 More than Two Dozen from MIT Named to Forbes 30 ... healthcare, followed by manufacturing and energy. It's cool to see winners in ... 's exciting to think about who will do interesting things in 2017 and end up on

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... to join us in the aisle?” By now the rest of the MIT Logarhythms were ... ’ve seen him around for the past two years and now I get to see him twice a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  't know what I thought would happen to me: that I'd freeze? That I'd get ... knew they would be. I came to MIT completely unprepared. My background in ... everyone at MIT does (according to the fantastic pressure survey in the Tech

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  reestablish some continuity of self—to read, to go for walks, to look people in the eye and put down electronics when we talk, to go to bed and get up ... disappear in college, but they’re up to you and the people around you to keep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Perspectives from Deutschland Ich bin Anna und ich studiere Astronomie!

  

  University of Marburg. In the morning, I will walk for twenty minutes to my ... this, I’ll move back to the US for graduate school in astronomy at ... ’re busy getting our lives in order: paperwork so that Germany doesn’t kick

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... to move forward in production. In fact, the full show of World of Wires will be performed in January in New York. So, if anyone happens to be

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... am. We were hungry and in the mood to try the new "Quesarito" from Taco ... ; After a long Saturday, my friends and I found ourselves chilling in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Before I say what I have to say about video, remember: Blogger applications are due by August 1st! As in Monday! Get them in on time so that I have something to read next week in addition to furiously refreshing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My first real internship

  

  . Being in the middle of nowhere also means there is relatively little to do ... . So I'll get to work on physics all day, and go camping on the weekends ... battle, and hiking have to do with each other? hmmm... If you guessed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an ... when you get to MIT. And everything that follows from here is Kim '09 ... you in. WooHoo!! You're inside and want to know what time it is. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  day to mastering the subtle art of falling sleep randomly in public ... greatest mercy in making us look unequivocally lame to the dozens of 12-year ... dollar in my desk drawer and decide to start another problem set. It's 4 AM

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  -aggressively tell me to get better at dispensing water, but to our surprise, the QR ... this unhinged ranting to say that this blog post and the water in my ... want to pound my head against a wall, and it costs hundreds of dollars

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  world". The grandma-friendly way to explain this is in terms of the ... months after graduating, to keep getting it wrong when I went to put my ... the physical examples, easy to describe in a short vignette. The true

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014