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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... as I was - but would MIT be so well suited for my second passion? Would a writer fit in at MIT? After arriving at MIT, I quickly learned that

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  I'm back in Boston now with five Central Meetings under my belt: Long ... knee-deep in orbital theory and photoelectron spectroscopy, and I was ... fast pace I had always hoped for in high school, where we weren

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  keep that in mind. I also would like to stay under 54 units. I'm already ... 've compiled that I have some interest in taking and you, dear reader, are going ... considerations to keep in mind as you choose. 5.12 Organic Chemistry I (MWF 12-1PM

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? If I had been born a girl, my father would have wanted ... lab after the career fair, but I saw a poster in Lobby 7 that said ... blood, and to be honest I would have done that too if I didn't have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... top hill (in hindsight, I wish they had made flag pulling worth more ... assemble my multiplier bot in the span of 24 hours. A task that would have

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... generations of students. As someone active in student government, I spend a lot ... beyond their own time here. Of course, as I indicated previously (and in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  stack it up by hand, I wouldn't finish in my lifetime (and there's other ... project in another post) I've been doing some pulsar searching. This takes a ... bunch of folds to run overnight, and went home. I got into the office in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  come to MIT? A. I chose to come to MIT twice - in 1983 as a student, and again in 1992 as a Professor. In both cases I came here because it was so ... talks, I'll feature a mini-interview with each of them. Prof. Jonathan

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  would like to remind you to treat the psets with great care. In the event ... It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  am on Tuesday morning I was having trouble keeping my eyes open in lab ... … and promptly fell asleep in the process of setting my alarm.  When I ... finish our code in time.  I had been in lab ten hours already, and there

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  - 45 minutes each in Workshops 1 and 2, where we would plan it out, and 1 ... film in was something I'll never forget. And I'll definitely never ... script is still in its early stages; even so, I'm so excited for its

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  pizza so I’m going there instead. No interest in volunteering with the Red Cross? But oh, free food! Of course I’m terribly interested in getting ... facts, and I’m involved in the Action Challenge, which is a challenge to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  . . . why would there be a chainsaw in building 16? Sure, it's heavily ... enough, sitting in the lobby . . . Students of MIT and CPW prefrosh, I ... students. While traveling down the hall in building 16 you will see something

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  genocide was once again occurring, though this time in real-time, I just had ... exclude securities that would violate MIT’s investment principles [in ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  ’m visiting my family in Ohio, and it feels like always. Except, I do miss the ... me while I was shivering under the frigid water in my new apartment ... exposed had that effect. But I was in a rush when I moved out. Plus I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  group. However, I proceeded to get lost in North Station because the MBTA ... . Gloria: I was actually awake since much earlier in the morning, but due to ... A liveblog on the blogger retreat 2023 (check back in throughout the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Essay Questions Should We Ask?

  

  questions would you want to ask your future classmates? Like I said, we ... I've got applications on the brain. Last week, we posted the blogger applications; this week, I'm modifying the Maker Portfolio for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... entertainment center and sofa, a kitchen area, and a walk-in closet. Also, I had

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... cetera. In the past 30 hours, I have: made my bed, eaten two grapefruit ... . And this is what I come home to: I'm living in a room titled The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ? Well, I'm not doing this fabulous topic justice in the least. I brought ... that I read about 100 pages in my Roman History text book, not quite ... get a lot more done over spring break in all my classes. Consequently, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008