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  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  Technology, one of the world's most famous universities. MIT students are some ... meeting her husband, fellow MIT alumni John Hammond. To my surprise, I saw John featured in another video in this post (see the next piece titled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 4, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  named after Harvard’s namesake, John Harvard, rather than the university ... alongside many of Boston’s universities and colleges: MIT, Harvard, and Boston University, to name a few. To get from Cambridge to [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Happy 21st Birthday to the Random Hall Milk the Milk is now old enough to drink, but *please*, don't drink the Milk

  

  year, around January 1st, we received a paper application in the mail ... occasionally, disgustingly burped. Regrettably, we were unable to offer the Milk

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ideate, Model, TEST! A long, behind-the-scenes look at 2.009 like, really long.

  

  ;Top left photo by John Chow.   End-of-the-semester class ... ’s head designer Jony Ive recently described many university design programs ... laser cut acrylic parts, high degree of fit and finish, and working

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  that don't know, BOSE offers discounts on all their products to current ... managed to stay for a full game. :( 20. Go clubbing on Lansdowne St. - I didn't know what Lansdowne St. was until right before graduation

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  If the Obama were a unit of measure . . . . . . what would it measure?

  

  the auditorium, my side (like, 20 feet in front of me), John Kerry walked in. So, the thing about John Kerry is that, well, he looks EXACTLY like John Kerry. No joke, it's like "Hey! That's the guy from Jib

  • by Snively '11
  • October 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Firsts highlight reels from the last few years, as I prepare to say goodbye

  

  celebrate my 21st birthday. Just a week ago, I imagined one version of what ... science-fiction universe. Then I saw snow for the first time while running ... got an offer letter. I spent that summer interning in Google’s Los

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 8, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  Negroponte = "Measure of perspective, not IQ" Stephen Colbert = "Ball" John ... Provenza = “madness” Matt Kirshen = “redundancy” Scott Adams = “1 degree

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  dramatized version of Elton John’s life unfolded on our shared TV. I’d never known much about Elton John, except that he was old, he was gay, and that ... John decides to turn his life around and go into rehab. He spends a lot

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Axes of Confusion ????

  

  offered in it). And our Engineering field is Course 6, or Computer Science ... representation, and that is EXTREMELY important to us. Steven Universe, in our ... , one for the minimum amount of classes we need to finish the 21E degree

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 21, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dear frosh: here are the things we want you to know a firehose of advice from upperclassmen: tips and tricks for freshman year

  

  them. Example: “Sherlock Holmes, John’s Roommate.” This will improve your ... , you don’t have to say yes to the first UROP or job offer you get ... primary responsibility is to learn. You’re at one of the best universities

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  still pretty sure that she was going to Georgia Tech, and then Johns Hopkins and Brown and Dartmouth rejected her, and she was offered the ... Johns Hopkins rejection, and he was mad on my behalf. He's never applied

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  we sometimes write on the blogs, we write all MIT degrees when ... effect.']master's degree[/annotation] in urban planning. Now, he works for ... computer science degree and a master's, and is a product designer for Twitch

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Reaffirming our commitment to diversity in uncertain times

  

  plaintiff, about whether and how colleges and universities may consider race ... , Grutter v. Bollinger (2003), universities are allowed to consider race only ... among many factors in the admission of students to selective STEM degree

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 7, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  parallel universe for those feeling dejected

  

  into a slightly parallel universe: one where everything remains the same ... up - this parallel universe is also one where art transports you

  • by Kai V. '25
  • December 19, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  . The only comments I can offer are, again, that the Mathematics degree ... : general requirements that undergraduates need to get a degree. Schools and courses: organization of departments and schools, course numbers, and degree

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “So what are you majoring in?” *sweats nervously*

  

  prospective 6-3 diploma. My initial attitude was something like, you got this ... about the nature of the universe and all that. I’m considering Econ

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • April 4, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The 2013 Ig Nobel Prize Lectures I won a prize!

  

  University in Toronto ("The social life of donuts: Commodity and community in ... a good team: (Photo Credit to John Carr) I introduced myself to ... awarded a prize at an Ig Nobel ceremony :) (Also, the rest of John Carr

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  , public, and international universities. Some took a so-called “non ... transfer students: Gaurab Previous institution: Purdue University (West ... Engineering) Krithik Previous institution: The University of Auckland

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Night at the Office A bit longer than I expected.

  

  -weekly offering of free food; even though the food (wings!) has been in the office ... , Professor Sive, indeed. 10:00pm: John '98 asks when I'm going to get around ... Verde's – come in. 11:29pm: I discover that our slightly eccentric John '98 has a

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 1, 2011