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• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... , and oddly-formatted emails.  I've been reading a lot of job descriptions lately, and I've noticed that recruiters regularly provide "success

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  First off, sorry I haven't posted in a while, it's been an intense yet fun week, and I'll probably blog about that this weekend. But on a ... over? A newspaper of course, silly. So my name appeared in this week

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  January 12 Hostel Colonial House, Quito In retrospect, I do not ... with his head in his hands. Alarmed, I stopped some French backpackers ... several-month homestay, which I imagine will be an adventure. The hike

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  back home, and I would like to thank everyone who helped in the effort to ... EST To: baxterthieves Cc: burton1 We have the cake, as requested, in ... they want) (it's pretty much the most amazing cake i've ever seen) From

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Cory and I paused for about an hour and a half while looking for Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this ... disease research, and a comparison of petroleum and coal in the same issue

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  traditions that outlast any particular generation of residents. I live in ... home to London, and while I stood in line to board the plane some man ... goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  store 2,3,9,15… in memory. For this blogpost, I’m going to talk about a more involved problem that arose in 6.046. I’ll discuss it at a high ... , 19, 2, 17, 14, 4), I want you to sort them, that is, arrange them in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... Bridge application is being used in place of the MIT application). Q: I've already ... This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  - and in between flashbacks to the Superbowl-That-Didn't-Happen - I started thinking. Mostly to distract myself from the pain as I did this over ... As some of you may know I am a big Patriots fan. Yesterday the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  without power now will not be able to read this blog post, so I would ask ... forward it on to them and spread the word so that they know. I would also ... hurricane, dumped heavy, wet snow across the region, exceeding two feet in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  guess, what would you think I was describing? Watching Avatar in IMAX 3D ... get glasses. They look like this: Unfortunately, I was deliberately ... double rainbows! - but a few that appear in a star-like pattern and radiate

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pottermania hits MIT Excitement for the release of Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows.

  

  arrived in New Orleans, I was interviewed on camera by a producer for ... with a taxi driver in a convention city. He asked where I came from and why I was in town -- as if following a script -- and then asked me what

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  just chill with us :) My project idea struck when I was wandering in my local contemporary art museum. I love the serenity of art museums, in ... . Starry Night in the style of Mango[/caption] I stared at the solid black

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  - even easier - than before. With that in mind, I invite you to ... for the world. You'd know this much better than what I would. Your ... spite of that, you've still achieved in many ways. That's why I suggested

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things in My MIT Household that just make sense

  

  This fall, I moved from my [annotation note="There's a running joke that my friends and I are in a sitcom. We refer to every school term as ... house in the Boston Cambridge area. Here, I'm renting a 2 bedroom/2

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  It was as bad as I suspected it would be. Turns out I have 5 hasses ... those has got to go. I will probably keep drumming if I make it in ... interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] Your Guide to Boston Cafes a letter from chomps

  

  Dear fellow chompers, A year ago, I was asked: … and in typical hosed ... introduced me to 30 cafes in the Greater Boston area, and since then, I ... caffeine companion in town” and deservedly so. I always mention this cafe

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 (MechE). As promised, I wanted to follow up with a recap blog post this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  this semester I would have completed my HASS requirements for graduation ... scrutinize....I can go on and on. The most enjoyable thing about HASS then, in ... answer." In some regards, I was considering a LAC when I applied to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... will probably end up over seventy-eight hours. In the meantime, I ... , spotting the train from New York pulling in on the neighboring track as I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023