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• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... long long time ago I used my camera phone to take a picture of Katie? '10

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  to the West side of campus twice, even though it is only a 10-minute ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... , as it can take a while to light up. Travel to the right down Mass Ave

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... about winter is going to be much more vociferous this year. fluency in a ... important, and the hardest to put into words. I can be a pretty big critic of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  If you've been to a high school math class recently, you probably ... collaborated with MIT professors to improve their curricula and published a book ... derived with a diffusion equation which, according to Prof Mahajan, is a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Have you seen your mother baby standing in the shadow? A visitor's guide to Harrisburg, PA, with original soundtrack by Billy Mack.

  

  the group over winter break, I knew that I had to pick a winner this ... realized that frat rush is a great time after orientation to meet some ... 't really be paying to see. After a quick "coming attractions" replay of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new coat of ... "wet and not-so-hot." It's quite an experience to be in a place where the ... colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school, for

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  unless we have sufficient information upon which to render a decision ... team has worked incredibly hard this year to process a record number of ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT. Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... was even more alluring because the MSA invited Yasir Qadhi to present a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  *CW:  Death, Rejection, Anxiety* I have been wanting to write a ... will not be able to do any of this justice.  But here it goes anyway. A ... , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... jynnie, but a bunch of 2E alums are coming as well! i've never been to the UK -- i'll try to take lots of pictures. even though i'll be a little

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper ‘84, Astronaut The 24th MIT graduate to go into space.

  

  early '80s, they were doing a big push to get a lot more girls to go into ... a Navy scholarship to help pay for college. From there, I got a degree ... about space exploration: "To me exploring space is just a natural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  building is a plan to try to combine brain-scanning with genetics to figure ... based on sets of symptoms rather than underlying biology, a messy way to ... genetics. So now, he said, it makes more sense to locate brain science in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  Jebby's so productive"[/caption] Anyway, I'm not going to do a full tour ... supposed to be Ultra Productive Study Session Day. Every two weeks, I make a ... and the unfortunate effects it can produce. I'm going to make a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  really hard not to show how angry I was at 6.009 and myself. A week after I ... —at least 4-5 hours a day dedicated to programming. That was a good decision ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  is usually a language requirement to the MISTI programs and the two ... -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... homogeneity vs. diversity is such a strong force. I’ve grown to like being just

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  Venezuela to Germany without knowing a single German sentence. As a student, he could only afford to call his family once a month— a drastic change ... enough skepticism to do the math) If I had to guess, there are a number of

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Things That Made Me Happy (and Sick) It’s me and my infection’s TWO MONTH anniversary!! 🎉😍

  

  suck (like sitting on a beach all day). Things that used to suck are ... have to do so I don’t die. Perfect! And now that’s it’s a cartesian ... start to notice. I’ve also included a societal obligation box. These

  • by Powers '23
  • January 4, 2020