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  Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!

  

  . As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour-long activity of its own, called "Deliver!" The goal of "Deliver!" is to build ... , washers) it can hold. According to Diane Soderholm, the Education Director

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  ? I should also warn people at the beginning that this is a long post. I wrote it to show people the way that I chose to tackle an electronics problem that was presented to me. It's not something that I learned directly

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  . How often is it that you can say that you were in a place where it was ... stuff - and how it connects to the work I've done this summer - it's sadly getting long enough to constitute its own blog post, and I have some work to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  It's September, school has started, and I know that before long I ... engineering and how many different people it takes to create a complete and ... out of it. I spent the summer looking at trends in how the GEOS system

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how ... to MIT, though, it's gotten significantly worse. Why didn't my mom ... tube, I still don't really believe it. So if you ask me right now what 14

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e-mail--who knows, I might pull a Mitra and end up using it. Classes started on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever ... reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  , but I believe that it does give you a drink-from-the-firehose look at ... 's average starting salaries by major? I was just wondering how many years it ... being the lowest... How happy are students? How stressed out do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was ... . My friends unanimously voted that this was a romantic scenario. “It’s ... . She had a good point. I considered texting Mike, “Yes, let’s do it! I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  ’re actually both part of a five-minute-long educational segment about how modern ... seems to have tickets to see the film when it premieres. Before you ask ... simulations on an MIT-inspired neural network (i.e. after thinking about it for

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  To All the Blogs I’ve Loved Before Hello? Is this thing on?

  

  . Most of the times I have asked other admissions officers how they got ... different. When I graduated from college, it actually didn’t even occur to me that “admissions officer” was a job. I hadn’t spared much thought on how

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • December 12, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how ... Jellyfishing...GEL-ly fishing? Get it? Fishing for new GELs? Maybe it ... !  Presently, I’m sitting here on Saturday night (well I guess it

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  sessions too often when it got closer to "bedtime," and you can see just how ... IT IS IMPORTANTYes. That's MIT tip number one: when studying for long ... that little piece of hell known as dead week. Yes, dead week. How aptly

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  read this entry. And if so, how long it will stay up after that. Still ... something that I had to send back to MIT, and it asked for my religious affiliation and I left it blank, because that's pretty much accurate. Boy, that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  which Boston is famous. My parents have done it two or three times while I was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for ... suggested that we join the herds of tourists and walk the trail. It was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  USNWR (and we all know how I feel about that). The good part was that it ... hysterical). I got up at 4:30AM on Thursday to make it to the airport in time ... a pretty long day. We got to Tampa around 11AM, checked into the hotel

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Harvard Square Photoblog Complete with funny captions. At least, I think they're funny. You be the judge.

  

  Square. Knowing we had a long day in front of us, we resolved to fortify ... Dr. Who to Magic: The Gathering, it's all here. We also stopped ... Mia. Oh well, how can I resist?

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  I'm going through my in-box today, taking care of some long ... , and I decided to wait until now instead of posting it in June - this ... the road, and (b) because I've been longing to post this picture of him

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  may have been accurate enough a long time ago, but it's not accurate now ... know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... 've heard about MIT--I thought, as you say, that it was a really collaborative

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  read economics papers. While I never learned how to do it directly as a ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research ... ’t recommended, even ignoring the effects it’d have on your sleep cycle or social

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021