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  14 Questions with a Course 14 Professor 📈📉 An interview with Jon Gruber!

  

  to have spent a semester looking at the world through the lens of ... the major fields of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and ... policy graduate school. So a lot of grad school options, job wise. The way

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • May 6, 2026
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  Lama came together in the form of three Unread Message alerts in my inbox ... responded to his offer first and would therefore be receiving the Dalai Lama ... Emad. The first - an expression of celebration at our respective ticket

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be ... , that kind of stuff. Towards the end of January they posted that they were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  approach the rest of my goals throughout the year: Should any of my goals ... , during my first semester, I ended up not using any of the them. The Subway ... another Subway. I never used any of the Rite Aid or CVS coupons I had

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  THEME “Who is John Galt?”… which was the entire text of Atlas Shrugged and the winning team in 2013']different name for each year of its existence ... . There was something about the combination of meaningless chaos

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent ... the norm, but that's the beauty of it. There is no norm. I've seen ... wondering if writing humorous essays are not a disadvantage since the humor of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  ’ drought look good out here. The lack of writing was complicated… it was not ... couldn’t be closer to the truth. As I packed up most of my clothes as the ... a slightly sketchy catalog of the pieces of merch I have gathered over

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the ... . Academically, I had a bit of rough time this semester, and the main reason was 8 ... give you a little background. As part of the GIRs (short for General

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to a pretty sizeable amount at the beginning of the semester, since I'm far too lazy to go to the basement of the student center and put money

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  THURSDAY, April 12 Woke up to the smell of smoke coming from the East ... because, for the past two years, it rained heavily through all of CPW. East ... whole CPW evening cleaning the grease-covered pans left over from a day of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... . These are the unmistakable signs of application reading season. If you ... even the most simple of observations about our admissions process

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  /approachable instead of offering a blunt "What do you want" (or the even more common ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

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

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  supplemental portfolios may feel especially useful. We offer portfolios of the ... ’ve compiled some of my thoughts on the portfolio process and collected some frequently asked portfolio questions. A crumb of context The MIT application is

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... by members of the United States Congress. I've never been to a baseball ... , hand-made, and revamped goods. It reminds me of the Fenway Flea in Boston

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  artifacts of reality crashing to the floor. If it was a creature, it would ... of timestamped posts immortalized on the internet. Because of this, I ... points. Here are some of the things I've learned to be true from my

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  were kids. Their parents moved with them to the US, but 3 of the 4 ... like the Times Square of Madrid- there are more people in the streets ... Mónica). Then Mónica and I left to meet the rest of her siblings (Martín is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... fact, I did extra reading. We read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which is bound with Incidents in the Life of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  Maybe it's a little existential, but at the back of my mind, I am ... footprint at the end of all of this. Now I'm not saying that I'm dying any ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  , software design, French, and costume design) helped avoid the sensation of ... academic study in a way that goes beyond just taking classes. As the end of ... a position that matched the type of technical work I was looking for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material ... the young entrepreneurs around me are college dropouts (all out of ... startups and how to make them work, especially the writings of Paul Graham

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007