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  10 things I love about MIT and hopefully you'll learn to love them too.

  

  and now it’s time to decide which offer to accept. As a senior blogger ... order.) 1. The students This one is a no-brainer. Thanks to the ... you’re planning a meeting, but is generally amazing to witness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 27, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

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

  

  magazine, Technology Review. (I'm trying to track down a copy of the ... 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

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

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... to spatial ability by nearly a full standard deviation, and in attempt ... might assume that he’s going to have an easier time than a woman of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  I’ve been trying to write a blog about Christianity and Cru at MIT ... to nothing and would have LOVED a blog about that sort of thing when I ... coming to after spending a year with the group I would 1000% recommend it

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Staying sane and strong during a pandemic with help from some engineer friends

  

  to continuously register the [annotation note="Cartesian dualism is a ... love having to set my body up precisely to execute a lift safely. I love ... ; sometimes, on the road [annotation note="I keep a stack of guest passes to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  17 Things I’ve Learned in the Past Year growing, growing, grown

  

  plan to not have spring break plans, but I feel like I have a lot of ... been pretty nice and relaxing to have a chunk of time to myself ... ’s like to start studying for a Friday 8AM exam (for a class you’ve attended

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  sitting in the library, studying for a Geography exam when someone ran up to ... -branded tape from what appeared to be a thick file. The file was from the ... cover a host of truly amazing feats. It was my first real introduction to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what am i doing great question.

  

  listen to a stranger’s conversation? Our professor, Shariann Lewitt, tells ... ’ve been able to really be a part of the lab. I attend meetings and reading ... we’re now in a study group together. I feel like I’ve been able to get

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty years later cms major who

  

  what? Gift economies To buy a Hunt Conclusion Open questions ... hundreds of teams, with sizes anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve ... ,[/annotation] because I want to think about the Hunt in a context bigger than fifty hours

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advisor vs. Advisee a '07 and a '21 answer a series of questions

  

  grad student!) at MIT. So naturally, we had to do a blog post together ... . Bryson used to do back in the day: Q&A. In our many conversations, I ... call them regularly. I am working on making it a weekly practice to have

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty people later ✈✈✈ (pronounced whoosh) ✈✈✈ (pronounced nyeowww)

  

  , which will be marked. Titling these posts is beginning to be a challenge ... 't have fifty people; the number's closer to 65. But this is a series, and I ... anywhere from one to a hundred, work to solve roughly a dozen rounds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Figuring out what I want to do with my life personal essay time :)

  

  I want to do after grad school. I was a bit taken aback, because ... useful to society.   I think I would be happy as a controls engineer for ... want to go to grad school, but wasn’t sure, because I hadn’t yet had a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • March 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Painting by number The anti-formula

  

  , generally the best that it can aspire to be is a convincing counterfeit, which ... generated by pbnify.com[/caption] In a rant post many years ago, I referenced ... out to be woefully short on substance.  I want to revisit and elaborate

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 2, 2024
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  “You know what would be cool?” some pizza would be a start...

  

  's like to be here (as a sidenote, I recently learned that going for 35 ... with a severe mental disorder in an MRI. This makes me want to wear a ... 't click further than the Notable Alumni page to see a good number of people

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  to pack my whole life there into 4 suitcases, attend a May ball and say ... geeky, but it’s truly a fantastic feeling to understand the biological ... most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... actually make it. Some are more free form and allow teams to create a solution to a problem they define. Others are more focused and have everyone

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  On Teaching and Learning Minimum requirement: read the last few sentences of this post. They're important.

  

  America Challenge, which sends about a dozen students to schools around the country during IAP, to try and make a difference in communities that need it ... 100% Navajo, and about a quarter of its students go on to graduate. Even

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What I Did in High School in the actual sense of the phrase

  

  ’s not what I wanted to write about. Instead, here’s a genuine account of one way to be a living human person in high school and end up at MIT ... ’t understand. It took a bit of time for me to start working as hard as I did in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • July 20, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Life is Improv say yes

  

  summer camps and in high school. Though I like to think I'm a kind person ... stupid the whole scene is. I'm also someone who naturally likes to have a sense of control over things. I'm not a "control freak." But I like to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s More Than A Job Thoughts On The Eve Of RA Decisions

  

  'm too tired to dig up the post so I'll give a quick recap. First you apply ... . Three days a week, I take a random bunch of applications to the public ... to be a teacher in the first place, that they're better people for

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006