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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... secret, the best way to do this is to actually care about them. Make people ... it here, or let you read the full text below: It is truly a deep

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  . June 6th is that edge of the flat, flat world. Or if you're looking for a ... whole "cover letter" routine and hope for the best while trying not to ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  . For the most part, I'd been straddling apathy and fatigue. But I ... 've believed you. Now, a year later, I'm looking at the statistics for the first ... options one and two. They accounted for 29.23% of the EA applicants. That

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... , my friend and I crossed the Harvard Bridge for the first time. We had ... to bed for hours, and left me insatiable for sleep. Sometime during the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  that things have gone the way they have. The world is online for the time ... MIT is the place for you, I will give you the biggest non-virtual hug ... Dear prefrosh, Today, Friday, April 17th, is the first day of

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  this morning, but check out what the Boston Globe had for its weather forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... more easily than do those for whom the experience is entirely foreign

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  change. For one, MIT is still a party... My DEECS robot is still the best ... , that was definitely an unexpected decision for me that changed the course ... new best friends for life. In this photo: Phi Kappa Sigma alumni

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  . He is now a partner for Square Peg Capital in Boston, and he gave the ... also asked the VC if he was available for a luncheon for incoming MIT freshmen on Thursday. Intrigued, I asked my friend what the luncheon was for

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  . The handling end is for the spinner to control the fire, and can be any ... was the boldest decision I made in my life, but also one of the best. I ... spend hours practicing it off fire before we try it on fire for the first

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  of the best nanotech research around! On the bio-nanotech side ... for Global Health Practice,” (HST.939) we had a lecture by the world ... science/engineering award available, and is famous for his use of polymers

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Funny pictures of me I wear a New Year's party hat. That's funny, right?

  

  to be an actual adult for the night (I turn twenty next week. Yikes ... without abiding by the number one rule of silly string, which is: SHAKE WELL ... You want to know the hardest part about this job? Entry titles. It

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  anything here. Quantity: ⭐ - This is the reason McCormick is so low for me ... any staff. Vibes: ⭐ - The dining area is way too cramped for seating ... : ⭐⭐ - Maseeh is notorious for having the most questionable quality. Although I

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

  MIT Olympians, Part 2 This time, I am talking about science olympiads.

  

  find the best student representatives. (For example, the US begins ... Trivia: Which MIT Professor was the top scorer for the first US ... scorer for Singapore at one of the international science olympiads. I had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  Gramophone Hall of Fame, has won a gazillion awards, is in the Royal Swedish ... is a tradition in Venezuela, where Dudamel is from. According to the ... across the country for this event + children from Massachusetts

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  ! (Affirmative.) It's really hard for me to explain the nerd stereotype; the best ... I'm beginning to think the foliage is out to get me. I was hit by ... 's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  , though, the real reward is supposed to be incurring a love for the subject ... the AP exam, to 1) prepare us for the exams even more, and 2) allow us ... ranting, though. The point is that last night, a group of us helped our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Everything in moderation…even moderation. How many places can you go on a four-day weekend?

  

  . Movie theaters behind Fenway Park: Watched The Deparated, which is a cop ... experiments (e.g. play on the swings!) The waterfront park is across the river from Charlestown, which is home to the Bunker Hill Memorial and USS

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s the word for

  

  passive, detached manner the point after which it is too late to ask for ... was in your calendar the scent of rain the act of looking for ... forgetting what day it is eating because you want to keep your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 5, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  How I got recruited to play D3 soccer at MIT the college sports recruiting process

  

  outdated. This is how I went about the college recruiting process for soccer ... before showing up to pre-season. The journey is not the same for everyone ... mind. That’s all I have for now! Wishing everyone the best of luck in

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  /proyectos/friki-apps/wii-servo-linux/wii-servo.html (As it turns out, "friki" is the Spanish slang word for what we would ... written for this project. The best part? They're written in Python, the only ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008