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  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  the dropouts usually have at least one year of college under their belt. I rarely ever see any highschoolers at any of these events. That all ... the first day. How did I find myself at one of the most incredible

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  of e." When I was at home, my friend Ben asked me if everybody at MIT ... destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  who are struggling extraordinarily well, and some of us (at least I hope ... work at the loss of self-care and health.  However, amidst the chaos of classes and ridiculous amount of stress bestowed among the students here at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  yourself healthy. Take this advice from a hypocrite. At the end of freshman ... this time to get sick not only at the beginning of the semester, but at ... . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  play both of these videos at the same time, you get an interesting little ... Yes, I'll admit that when I first wrote "Pi(e)", I thought of π times ... thought I'd put up a post that collects some of the best pi(e) references

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  -efficient cars, as well as a look at MIT's Friday-after-Thanksgiving tradition of a ... only decades away, at best, from the point of no return on greenhouse gas ... 's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  diversity throughout history. At the beginning of the 20th century, the ... and Latin America (read more here). At the beginning of the 21st century ... mentioned did not accept women at the time of the poem's publication) The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  /insomnia at two in the morning, which allowed me to record (still kind of subpar ... completely by one of the YouTubers I watch regularly, Emily Diana Ruth. She creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Events

  150. We're in the news!

  

  year, I wrote an entry that told a picture-based story of my first year at MIT. I was thinking of doing something similar this year - but this ... rat is physical proof of my being halfway done with MIT. I can't believe

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  though there are still a lot of rough edges and functionality to add. At ... As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  I Think I’ve Found Paradise (Guest Entry) Work hard, play hard. For the next four years.

  

  Boston side of the river, everyone is bound together by a love, or at the ... to be a man of few words, and my guest-entry was going to revolve ... consider me to be a pretty serious, goes to bed at 10, enjoys jazz music type

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer, Summer, Summertime "...and this is how i spent my summer vacation."

  

  at the Institute. The pomp and circumstance of an MIT graduation was a ... having a lot of fun, I'll also be interning at a consulting firm in Harvard ... before picture of my cubicle. We'll see how it looks at the end of the

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!

  

  long, long time that we remember seeing all of my class at one place at ... half of being at MIT made the night a meaningful one...our brass rats are ... Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  example, here are some of the contests at East Campus' "Bad Ideas 2011 ... greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  at everything; there's such a huge sense of belonging: if I ever need ... Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... , finals...), and several doses of caffeine lie between me and that fateful

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!

  

  and center at the CPW Opening Ceremony. Three members of Alpha Phi Alpha ... coming late! I had a great time at CPW, really. But my SD card corrupted, dumping the gajillions of photos I shot before 3:30pm on Saturday. I can

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  Scholars Program at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (that was a lot of ... ! For the month of July, I continued my UROP with the Media Lab. I UROP at ... HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  subtract the 4 minutes I spent staring at the squiggly darkness inside of my ... . What I didn’t realize at the time was that the crack in my façade of ... hard I wished I hadn’t wasted so much time at the beginning of the year

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  recipients' art as part of the annual exhibit of Schnitzer Prize winners at the ... graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... displayed at a bunch of venues, including the famous Ars Electronica. When it

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Saturdays and inspiration, check out the massive number of people who were at ... at the University of Chicago called Cascade. I would have never learned ... several of my Saturday mornings after I found an old CD containing Bobby

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011