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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vast Oral Tradition Bela Bartok, a fluorescent rabbit, and Helen Keller walk into a bar. Stop me if…

  

  actually her fourth concert in a week, after Patti Smith's fantastic ... 've passed on my floor in a fetal position for 5 hours every night this week ... down to desk and I helped him out with that. Then I passed out in a fetal

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentations Live Webcast Project Engineering Processes aka The Most Fun A Course 2 Major Can Have Without Their…

  

  Have Without Their Own Startup!!!!!! (Note: this is not a general MIT ... will say, the best part of final projects is when you are done with them--not because the work is finally over (ok, partially) but because you realize you

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 7, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  few dozen extras in the background, so they made a big group chat and ... ’m graduating in a few weeks, i haven’t stopped meeting new students here and ... so up until the very end. i know this is a foolish endeavor from a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  joys in my life have been derived from small, private moments--a lot of ... to has involved me working on abstract problems with my head in a book ... 'm definitely feeling less stressed at the moment than I have in a long time

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Just Because It’s 2/29 I apologize that this blog has nothing to do with MIT.

  

  it doesn't count because my birthday is in December, and I have already ... .01 (economics) pset. (ever want to know what a study room looks like at four in ... : TODAY IS LEAP DAY! Leap Day, I'm sure you already know, comes from the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  more holidays in the fall than we do in the spring: a 4-day Indigenous Peoples Day weekend in mid-October, and this month, a 3-day Veterans Day ... qualifying for a spot for the 2019 US Championships in mid-January. That night

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud ... do is not ask at all and just have a vague worry hanging over your head

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  have a normal, stable relationship, and down here in the third... oh, I ... As it's been nearly a month since I posted (yeah. I've been hosed. I ... imaginary, then the dots in the applet will be blue." (Draws dots in orange on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  . Our neighbor here in Row 7 is named Isabel. She lives in Chicago and is ... Rafael and her mom is named Ana! "Maybe when you have a kid," she said ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / CPW

  an orange tour 🍊🍊🍊

  

  me. Isolated color is a fun lens in which to view the world. I hope you ... Last year, I hosted a pre-CPW [annotation note="fyi this was streamed through a website on the Google Chrome app on my iPhone so pls forgive the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • April 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Won’t Be Long Now… Some pictures to tide you over.

  

  lucky applicant is who will receive my teeth marks in his/her package. :-) ... 'm not the biggest fan of paper cuts) but it's rewarding in that it provides a bit of closure to an important part of the admissions cycle. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  class and do research in any department; "nerdiness" and quirkiness aren't uncommon; people with a wide variety of backgrounds and experiences Favorite things about Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; the T (subway) is cheap and clean

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  don't begin until 10am. In the meantime, there's a "pre-game show." This ... Admissions Marilee Jones! Above, Marilee is preparing for an interview with a ... On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... shiny prize wheel in front of a heap of good prizes. A Harvard athlete ... in our hands. The athlete smiled at us and held up a QR code. He made

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  me for spending all day sitting down in front of my laptop, saying it ... I go outside and trudge through snow or suffer in freezing cold, when my room is nice and warm? The first sign that something was going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferring Thoughts before 12/14 12:14pm to after 3/14 1:59pm

  

  is, albeit not a very creative one.  I wasn't originally planning to ... Shuli's help, a small switcheroo occurred. So in a few minutes, here are ... MIT felt like a long shot in general. On the day of decisions, I woke up

  • by Waly N. '24
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  treadmill... You're only human after all. Eventually a routine sets in. You ... . Make a difference. Class of 2016, you're in for the journey of a ... It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures ... and informed us that there was a place in the woods nearby called the ... , including cows! The thing is, we couldn't find the trail head. We had a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  anew what a wonderful wor(l)d

  

  What a wonderful word: anew. Google defines it as “in a new or ... freshman year, I’ve lived on Beast, a floor in the dorm East Campus. While I ... someone in the lounge to hang out with. The group chat is so alive, yet not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 23, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  touched 18.03.   In a desperate moment of clarity, I sat down to ... decided, in a last-minute change of plans, to make our event now centered ... carcinogenic in California. In the confused aftermath, we carried a table down

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025