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  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  arrive at a conclusion is one of the best skills you can have. In what ... basically a crash course in being a leader in the engineering workplace over a ... didn’t end in .mit.edu, except for Google and a few random others. Late

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  was that a museum in Lowell, MA was interested in displaying ElectroPlushies in a toy exhibit for several months. I went and visited them a couple ... 'd gotten in a while! Ok, Hasbro doesn't want them, but this way we'll have

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  like a chore at first, remember that everything in you application is ... Corridor actually ends... in a parking lot Favorite thing about Boston ... in A Strange Land (Salvatore). Favorite food: BAR-B-Q and charred

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Responses to comments! I answered your questions. Like, fast this time.

  

  're a prospective freshman who is interested in the particular sport and ... question. I believe that some time I received in the mail a postcard asking ... 've gotten a recruitment form in the mail, fill it out and send it back. I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  class), preparing for a little French presentation with a classmate in the ... enjoy a birthday cake that his girlfriend made for him in the kitchen (he ... years since I got in and yes it took a little while but I'd be lying

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my ... suddenly the beginning of May and frankly, I'm terrified. I indulged in a particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  Kesem MIT is a one-week, free summer camp that takes place towards the end ... session is done. I was a counselor for Camp Kesem MIT during my freshman ... businesses. Typically, a “date” is bought by his or her friends, who pool

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be ... schedules in calendar format"]Hydrant[/annotation] and [annotation note='A

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Allegiance "No, I'm not one of /those/ people."

  

  else. While chatting with a MIT graduate who is now in the top rungs of ... to work in (most divisions of) a big bank is that I’m too soft and lazy ... mean, I bet you live in one of the cleaner parts.” I imagine a big label

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harbinger of Doom, Despair, and Knowledge: PSETS Don't worry, not as bad as they sound.

  

  yourself into. As an expert in what he is and is not currently in, I'd be ... , but the only ones that end in "2" and "5" This went on for a while ... procrastinated. I procrastinated a lot. In fact, it wasn't until the night before

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a penny for your thoughts? and what it is, and could be, worth

  

  entirely, but one thing is for certain: a thought in 1522 seems to have been ... I think the saying "a penny for your thoughts?" is really rather ... face sheweth the mind walking a pilgrimage, in such wise that other folk

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • February 20, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  in living in a frat, and a big part of his going to CPW is to get to ... is across the bridge in Boston: he's coming a long way to get the feel ... , about 50% of all males at MIT decide to live in frats and it is actually a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  pound. I'm sure CMS.100 is a worthwhile class, but grapes at 88 cents ... organize a themed party/carnival/interactive infomercial in the Student ... interpreted as a challenge for student groups to 1-up each other in distributing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus ... Today, November 3rd, 2020, is Election Day in the United States. Many

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... consumer. No thoughts, just a constant stream of words going in one ear and ... . And before you ask, no! This blog is not sponsored by Audible. In fact

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  This is a post by my good friend Claire, she's an insanely amazing ... . Within two days, I found myself in a conference room at the office on the ... Random to fall housing in McCormick (a sweat-driven Tuesday morning haul

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  every single Taylor Swift song ever produced (SERIOUSLY. No one lives in a ... Whiskey." There is literally nothing like hearing a 8-year-old boy singing ... videos for a neat-o cause. Not every summer day is sunny and jivin'. Here

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  Authors): Old English and Beowulf hwæt ƿe gardena in geardagum þeodcyninga ... .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  is even legal in Massachusetts, less than a block from some cops who ... riding a bike without a helmet is only illegal in Massachusetts if you are ... , I was in charge of the treasury table, a nice secluded table in a nice

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members ... documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... activists in the Boston area by attending a Darfur rally in Government Center

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007