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  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  process of leading a project from start to finish, watching it on launch day ... . An even smaller part of me wants to just graduate from MIT with a ... Back in October of 2019, just about a month into my fall semester, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  A Penny for Your Thoughts pennies

  

  similar or different they are from each other, a little dose of community ... for Your Thoughts", a compilation of the responses of members from all ... attend, you will be a successful person." Anonymous '17 - "Aside from the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  isn't fiction: this is Earthrise, a view of the Earth rising from the ... a bowl of petunias and a short-lived existential whale, from Chapter ... description of the Diskworld from the first page of The Colour of Magic: In a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Adulthood Boom!

  

  Sorry if this is just a rehash of my Grown Up post from last year. January seems to be the month to be sentimental and reflect upon the impending doom delightful adventure of aging.

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 14, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  offer from Apple and a congratulatory call from the President, with the ... still remains. Getting rejected from a top school, particularly MIT, isn ... Decisions are coming. That means a lot. It means that several

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take a Load Off Quoting The Band's "The Weight" should make the wait bearable

  

  talked about humanity as a perk; that is, the admissions office has high ... nicely when he said you don't have to build, say, a nuclear reactor to get ... is visible from my awesome double.As much as I would've liked for it to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  10 reasons why MIT is beautiful if I do say so myself.

  

  ! (9) Because the Esplanade is only a short walk from campus: and ... Sometimes MIT gets a bum rap for not having a pretty campus.  I ... Cambridge, and a whole lot more. So without further ado, 10 reasons why MIT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Story About Muti How I performed a project in Ethiopia a lot sooner than I expected.

  

  came from something more like a spiderweb--a lead here, a lead there ... . Muti is far from the capital city. It takes a 9-hour bus ride to get to a ... teacher asked me to keep a journal as my assignment for missing school for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  far from town. Reading a book while Max plays saxophone, the windows ... summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  On Friday, the movie Iron Man opened (and opened big: a $100 million opening weekend). I must admit, I'm not generally a big comic book ... from my friend Wally, via my friend Lisa, about photo stills from the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Is CPW a lie? I asked for opinions.

  

  mental health. During a senior speech dinner for people from the Latino ... Center. “It’s a hollow statue of a person made from numbers and symbols ... CPW. Take a look at these elotes from LUChA! :D

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 17, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Some people call me the space cowgirl

  

  whose application I just read was like Pink in many ways. She came from a ... nonstandard criteria - not gpa, etc.?" To borrow a line from my Dean, Marilee ... More reading going on here tonight, after a yummy Super Burrito and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  8:30pm. 7:51pm: The office gets a call from our chairman – Joe '12 ... As a news editor for The Tech, every couple weeks, I have the pleasure of spending a Monday night or Thursday night in the newspaper

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hard MIT Class ...or is that redundant? And yes, hiiiiii.

  

  Picture this. You’re trying to shuffle past a gaggle of camera-wielding tourists. You bump into one of their shoulders; they regard you for a moment, then return to their conspiratorial whispering. Before you think up a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 10, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  My Product Design Internship in Austin how to build things: both externally and internally

  

  burger from a Michelin star rated food truck that only sells one thing: Not ... endless grocery store"]HEB[/annotation], I have transformed from a helpless ... first and is now a G. Higgins is THE BEST CHARACTER he’s been a homie from

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • July 26, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  friends/hosts. Mathilde, a fellow student from Cambridge, shows me the ... and Europe. I even met up with a friend whom I knew from an ... to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  from MIT.[/annotation] Daily Table is a nonprofit community grocer that ... collaboration with dietitians from Boston area universities and health centers a ... from 2020 documented a variety of supply chain hacks: Five percent of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Random Random Projects/Moving Out of Random Randomly zigzagging about until I find myself in the future, somehow no longer in Random.

  

  sixteen positions, varying the current from 0mA to 150mA in 10mA steps ... extremely laborious but I learned a great deal from building it; plus I now ... Hall but I’m typing it from a fancy but empty apartment in East Cambridge

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 13, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  include a train reference every time I write an entry from a train. I will ... from a line of rope that stretches from the tower on the left to the ... should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  large open lobbies separated from the classrooms and offices. These are ... ’re walking in. I spent a few evenings last summer and this winter so far ... (both free), and all are clickable for a larger view. The first snow of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012