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  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  throughout the entire weekend at CPW, I took all of, like, fifteen pictures ... pet). Sure, I don't think CPW was an accurate representation of life at ... snapshot (and taste! read: FREE FOOD) of the culture at MIT, in all its

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... as Paul worked at for UROPs), won the National Medal of Science in 1997 ... -I-can't-believe-these-people-are-live!" kind of feeling (kinda like a kid seeing Mickey Mouse the first time at

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  semester was like eating a large bowl of Lucky Charms at 5 AM after spending ... tall mugs of hot strong coffee, we seated ourselves at the counter and ... repeat that for emphasis. Conflicts. With. Lunch, the refuge of covert

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  efforts at MIT, and TESS is going to revolutionize our big-picture of these ... Galileo stuck his eye at the end of a telescope, photons from Europa ... of our home planet in Book II and you'll see what I mean: "And fast by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the ... so yet. The MyMIT hardware failure did not affect the data of the vast majority of applicants. We have personally contacted the small set of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... most popular teacher at MIT, always wears a tuxedo to his final 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  our poster to the greater MIT community at the end of the semester. The ... classmates and I's hard work hits me all at once, the feeling of pride plants ... have one more year. A year of lasts, of mourning, of clawing at time

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... sufficiently absurd, but at least they will (probably) laugh (or cry) at your pi jokes (out of pity). It is currently the first day of school’s eve, more

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  leadership training is probably somewhere at the top of that list, but that's a ... of us arrived at the Dave Powers Room in the Constitution Inn in Boston ... Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a proud cadet at Air Force ROTC Det 365

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  So the other day, I was totally out of food. Like, completely. I hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  of alumni friends messaging you to tell you that their company could ... pumped up about going to schmooze with a bunch of companies who, I felt ... major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Settled It's good to be back!

  

  -signed papers saying that I'm allowed to travel alone, I am finally back at MIT and all settled in to my new room. Last year's non-existent view of the ... . It's so nice to be back; I didn't quite have a whole lot of time to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 20, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  at 0530. I might have woken my roommates, but it was early enough that ... stumbles over my roommates' chairs, I was out of the door of my fraternity ... across the Harvard Bridge, and I sat down in front of the international

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell ... like here at MIT. I'll try to post a lot of pictures, links, videos, etc ... . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts

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

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  the highlight of the Lunch (my favorite part, at least) is hearing from all of the incoming MIT freshmen (Class of 2009) who were at ISEF. They ... all for a great time at ISEF. Tomorrow, MIT Admissions has the first of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast their ballots today. Here at MIT, employees are guaranteed time off for ... , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  else. Like many of my colleagues, and like many students/faculty/staff at ... to work hard, at a high volume, over sustained periods of time, is part ... by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019