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  See You Later

  

  was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a ... time while continuing to work in the office. But for a variety of reasons ... . I've got the opportunity to get an MIT grad degree in a really mind

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... the world in other ways. Kristine is in med school now, so if humankind

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  average in most of the programs is around five and a half years, but there ... . Unfortunately for me, I am a hopeless sap, so the best I can hope for is not ... school, and about careers in science. He gave me a lot of good advice about

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  can pretend to be friends with each other in a 30 person class.  The ... our name, and my [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms, a class that is ... will figure out about me is that I’m a [annotation note="the colloquial

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  looking at a baby photo. This site is both ever-changing from new voices and ... ="attachment_83349" align="aligncenter" width="300"] in case i get a new avatar, i ... visit every once in a while—you know, to catch up with the people I hold

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from ... academics, such as planning and executing a water project in Ethiopia, becoming a founder of a new FSILG, and playing with robots but that is all

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Idol A selection committee fantasy.

  

  In a few minutes I'll head over to the committee room to begin Day 7 ... guys are just awesome and inspiring. Probably a combo of the two. In any case, selection committee is a pretty intense exercise as far as the

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  other in more detail. Frank Wilczek is laughing with a theoretical ... 39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  things i miss and don’t miss who is this guy? 🤔

  

  this time in my training to be a doctor. This is when I started training ... In 1984, a book lots of people have read, the people in control made ... kick out the people in control. Are we buying into this? I am a very old

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  country of your choice, given that there is a MISTI program available in ... pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near-absence of productivity - three things I have not experienced consistently in a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... : "The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a ... : 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Doctor Who?

  

  above by swinging her hard wooden mallet in a circle, croquet is a vicious ... UROP advisor) look just a little nervous? In a "I better give this guy a ... sense of where every single piece of equipment in our lab is located

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that ... 't expect to be this different. Anyway, in my time here, I've learned a lot in ... health just for a "P" to show up? It's learning to look at how the grade is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  your toothpaste is. You may want to open a window and set up a fan in ... the how-to :P This is a guide for how to restore an old, dingy ... fix a whiteboard that had been sitting in a hallway, filled with writing

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  numbers is a little odd [27% acceptance rate females, 12% males], and I find ... . This is not an accusation or an excuse for myself, but merely a curious ... directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a spectacle-r weekend exploring the Boston Harbor Islands

  

  are [annotation note="34, in fact"]a ton[/annotation] of beautiful ... hour there...The boat leaves from Long Wharf, which is a ~10 minute walk ... is only a bit of an overstatement. The ferry ride is indeed beautiful

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  stop you and interject that it is in fact a “fork with spoon ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  , which is a UN organization that deals with sanitation and water issues in ... the earthquake hit in January, and is structured around weekly guest ... D-Lab, a lab/class at MIT that focuses on sustainable technology in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  , everyone is outside building a fort. And I painted my door! And I painted a chalkboard on my wall! My door is currently bright pink. I'm back at MIT, and there is a new little kitten hopping about. Everything

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... policies and tweets of a certain president, and sometimes it’s in the open

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020