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  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  . The day-to-day experience of your life at MIT is a perspective only you ... are a specific example of the general case. At a high level, we are ... slow-cooking ribs at least once a week 2) My Google search history is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . Morale was low. At around 3:30 AM I took a 30 minute nap on the floor of ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... applications varying by semester. Emphasis on the integration of fundamental

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  ... Will you be HAPPY (at least ~50% of the time)??? There's a reason why ... emotions are usually at one of these two extremes. When we say that “MIT is ... out of time... (Wednesday at 12:55) Me: *rushed through the problems

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  past, present, future reflections and plans

  

  past At the beginning of the semester, upon looking at my overloaded ... many finals I would have to take at the beginning of the semester instead ... favorite class at the beginning of the semester to my least favorite nearing

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 11, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... portraits of past directors (Laplace seen at left) and Louis XIV, who had the ... more detail, we'll just leave the issue of dark matter at the fact that

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I ... eyeballing my handiwork, I had built the table to within 1.3 degrees of level ... few weeks at MIT, both of the (old) laptops I had brought to campus

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had during my first semester at MIT. The past two weeks have been surprisingly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  flyers at the expanded hem of the skirt, to the sharp, skintight and clean ... in the Arts at MIT. He told us about the studio on the fourth floor of ... -four designers from MIT, Harvard, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design. One

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....

  

  ... Once you were here, MIT offered a fine range of Courses (our numbered way ... backwards-looking of my own. Kim has a collection of old Techniques (the MIT yearbook), and flipping through the pages from as far back at 1918, it was

  • by Alina G. '11
  • March 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we ... a few lectures at MIT in the Spring of 2003 before disappearing back ... beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  and relevant. Perhaps similar courses are offered at other schools; I ... sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before: P.S. I Love You THANK YOU LSC

  

  chat this: HELL. FUCKING. YES. For those of you who don't know me ... movie on Netflix at least 14 times over, if not more, and read the first ... arrived at the gorgeous venue. We took the escalator to the top floor and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  to move at a speed of about 5 steps every 10 seconds (over ... degrees (I know you winter-lovers are laughing at me but just remember I ... of the Boston skyline at sunset, from the sailing pavilion.  

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world ... , and walking around on the floor of 10-250. Okay. This was especially

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  , completely out of breath *TA passes an exam along* *gets mad at self not for ... moving to and living at MIT becomes more of a reality for you), I want to ... How NOT to be a MIT Student (aka. my daily dose of stupidity) *sets

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  life lessons from my internship career choices moving forward

  

  highest out of all my offers, plus it was in the Cambridge, MA area so I ... coworkers and suddenly had a vision of him at age thirty, still at Dropbox ... didn't quite stir up the spark of wonder that MIT offers. Much thanks to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  actually still technically a member of the Class of 2011. While at Squid Labs ... have ever met, a lot of whom have degrees from MIT. It was pretty cool to ... school/Talibe center I volunteered at (photo courtesy of Lauren Scott

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... making, performing, looking at, and understanding the multitudes of formats ... . Students with a multitude of interest and involvement in the arts at MIT will

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  going on, but I really want to write up at least some of my scraps. To ... )" feature at the bottom of the page to gather some audience input about which ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  Ever heard of Alan Lightman? He’s one of the most famous professors at ... . Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may ... have heard of some of his books: Einstein’s Dreams (1993), Good Benito

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007