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  MIT Imagination there is no place i know...

  

  showed the candy store side of things. Soon I'll post up more on the making of MIT Imagination, along with some b-roll and a montage of mascot ... of love by many people at MIT. CREDITS: Written and directed by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute ... as I can remember, I've found that writing things down is one of my ways of decompressing - imposing order on chaos, as it were. So I figured

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  allowed in Senior House and no one wants to live with Institute White if ... Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is ... complaints, they are still present. -Watching Dramashop's performance of Suzan

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a powerpoint presentation thousands of miles away. I remember hearing talk around the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  of great importance. I wrote: I think my being a physics major has ... long after writing that blog, though, I had a bit of a breakthrough in ... general relativity, and all of a sudden I was reminded of just how

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  offer my congratulations, and a warm welcome to the MIT community. For the rejected, I offer my condolences, and the best of luck as you apply to other schools. For the deferred, I offer the rest of this post. Posts like this

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  ’m talking about the hundreds of billions of silicon transistors that form the brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... Displays of Science Regardless of what display you’re using to read this blog

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class ... ride through 33-degree sleet and rain en route to Colorado Springs for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Surprising Research Results The chimpanzee-human relationship, and CEO pay.

  

  Institute of MIT and Harvard was headed up by David Reich (also an assistant ... discussed just that kind of research from MIT. The first article, about ... occurred millions of years later than fossil bones suggest, and the break may

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So, you’re applying to college.

  

  of the world's technology research, with the world's brightest minds ... nearing the tail end of your paperwork. If you're applying regular action ... of idealized MIT. The more I read, the more I learned, the more I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun with Legos A photo journal of THE coolest room I've ever seen.

  

  advisor, which is an upperclassman who acts as a something of a mentor to ... sometimes takes place in the form of an advising seminar, where 7 or 8 ... seminar topic. My advising seminar is called "Designing Kids Technologies

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  midst of 30-something-degree weather, it began to snow. Much to the amusement of floormate Swetha '13 and with the full support of my roommate ... Hailing from the notoriously hot and humid city of Houston, in which

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  , Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of ... of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing ... seems to be some sort of parade or festival every other week. And they

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  and unfeeling bulky vehicles whose owners are lost in thoughts of their ... presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... people walked out of the front doors that night as he approached the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  since I started college and tried my best to make the most of my time off ... all, my meals. Below is a collection of my attempts to put together ... workshop sponsored by MISTI Japan and learned the intricacies of flowers and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  technologies. Diamandis, founder, chairman and CEO of the X PRIZE Foundation ... Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy and author of ... they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years.  My absence is easy to explain though, having left the Institute to work ... of lessons and takeaways from my time on “the other side of the desk

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  the forms and structures of argumentation, including organization of ideas, awareness of audience, methods of persuasion, evidence, factual vs. emotional argument, figures of speech, and historical forms and uses of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  demonstrates the clear superiority of MIT amongst other institutions of higher ... By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  High? Teaching was weird. One of my first times reserving a room for ... , it turned out to be the human specimens room. It was full of skeletons, human skeletons and skeletons of human-like primates, and skulls on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025