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  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  has for three years worked in a lab analyzing the effects of recombinant ... engineering, but first will read for the B.A. in philosophy, politics and ... to Oxford University to read for a degree in the Philosophy, Politics

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Less Than Perfect Bottle Rockets, Crossword Puzzles, and Half-Marathons

  

  curiosity and an urgency to try again and again. There was a craving for the ... Part One: On the last Friday of April, a stubby little rocket made ... , a red folder, and fifty jangling pennies was launched into the sky

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  music for the five minutes before the official start of class at 11:05am ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to ... to the bottom of this. For those of you prospective member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- Amalchi wrote: "I have a few questions regarding the TOEFL. For some reason ... explaining what happened. I expected to get a good score for the TOEFL... I ... of these. 5) The subjects I have a great passion for are Biology and

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: The Power of Intuition when making important choices

  

  The following is a guest post by Jorge T. '18.   The Power ... is only a week ahead, so I thought I would share some of the things I ... side, I had the option to work at a startup in Cambridge called Geo

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an ... alone soon, I promise - I've had nothing to do for the last two weeks, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  hits all seniors at different times: seeing friends for maybe the last ... President Reif during Commencement, or simply walking down the street as a new adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT

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

  Study Break!

  

  and get money for all these cool projects and we have a study break ... value of the study break a couple of weeks ago when I was working on this ... some people who hate doing the work in groups, which is fine for them

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

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  , where a national musical act performs on campus. The headliners for this ... , "The piano drop was first enacted in 1972. It was conceived by a Baker ... the past. In honor of him a new unit of volume was created: the 'Bruno

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  [/caption] The most challenging parts of eating this, for me, was finding a way to ... At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... menu curated for each event"] MIT MINCE [/annotation]. As a big Studio

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... I was thinking recently about the mixed messages that come through ... can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  ’ve guessed. And the cherry on top? For dinner, we went to a restaurant that ... play some music as a group too. Luckily for us, the first activity of the ... ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  best medium (or one of the best) for translating that lesson plan into a ... being offered for MIT students (with the snazzy bonus of summer housing ... Learning Materials for Biology aka. THANK YOU MIT FOR OFFERING A CLASS (even

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  still Mollie Burgoon. I am a member of the class of 2006 at the ... for the rest of eternity. There are two things I consider to be the ... research. I am a UROP in the Sheng laboratory, where I've worked since the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... a line of security blocking off the backroom, and we officially decided someone important was in the restaurant. We did eat at a relatively

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.

  

  have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry ... year, I applied and was selected for a scholarship program that studied ... and the United States. The format is pretty cool - you watch a video

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  on a post about the class for three weeks now, and i'm really hoping to ... for, what, a month and a half now? it's been two weeks since my last ... 'm grateful for. splash happened the weekend before the last one, like pretty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  locating housing once, but I have a few pointers for the terrified amateur ... climb over a fence, but even so, it was all done the day we learned we ... impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... (at least for me) OX'ing a class at the end of a semester exists as a ... Sometimes you put a lot of effort into something and the external

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of ... for decision making.   15.812 Marketing 15.812 is the introductory marketing course for the MIT Sloan School of Management MBA's and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017