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  Things that make you go hmmmm……. Obama’s transformative presidency………for geeks????

  

  knows how to dance; he dresses well," Sarewitz said. "It's too high a ... . Spock" Nimoy the Vulcan "Live Long and Prosper" sign. That and other ... his inner geek, but you can tell it's there," especially when he goes

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • December 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  , South-, Central- and North-Jersey, Manhattan, Queens, Long Island ... County, Westwood, Pomona, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, and Long Beach, California. It will be my first ever visit to Miami, Tampa, San Diego, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Sounding Stupid More Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  How To Avoid Sounding Stupid* *All advice should be taken with a ... question its legitimacy later. Don’t ask your professors to proofread your ... opinions; chances are you haven’t thought it through and they will poke holes

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  called transparent concrete. It's really only semi-transparent (for now) but it still reminded me about how much innovation there is in an ... -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  It's never easy to turn people down from MIT. But sometimes, I ... write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... . That your path isn’t something MIT sets you on, it’s something you make

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... pursuing a career as a filmmaker. It was a proud moment for him, and for me ... Dubstep. Okay, so someone please tell how this is any better than music from

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  material - not just getting the right answer, but understanding how to do it ... his son as long as it's in the name of education. Nhia Vang, 45, said he ... Project STEEM camp. "It was really neat. It showed us stuff we hadn't seen

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  up or ease its descent. This two-football-fields-long concept airship ... Sci.comexternal link) -- This is not a Blimp. It's a sort of flying Queen Mary 2 that could change the way you think about air travel. It's the Aeroscraft, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  last minute application panic for the procrastinators

  

  date; it can be helpful to add them to a calendar app or spreadsheet ... Confidential does not count as enjoyment. Please go watch that HBO series you ... ’t the application process. It’s called vacation for a reason. And take

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  . Does anyone else find this sort of weird, or is it just me? God bless ... crackers one night, it was time to own up to the fact that I was going to ... your pizza flashes red, and turns solid once its been completed. Then the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  ! Please excuse the lolcat/EECS reference, it was a necessary evil. Surprise ... hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of cold at MIT right now (13 degrees). What does cold mean? Cold means snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  recevied such harsh but simultaneously useful feedback. It was also lovely to ... reflected by others. We were learning how to make our own work better by ... workshops where it felt difficult to address flaws directly, for fear of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Top Ten of All Time; 2024 Edition ft. Barack Obama aka Minesweeper Monday EP 2

  

  In this episode, which was most certainly posted on a Monday, I talk about making a pizza, and how Simmons hall doesn't have a sheet pan in any ... 'congratulations' at the end. i tried to make it a caption but yo no se. "]Note[/annotation].

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 7, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  awkward pause. It was fun, but the band definitely required more practice ... battle session, it was almost dawn, so we decided to watch the sunrise ... day, I was pleased to note that it was 6 am, and a whole day lay ahead

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  see what it usually entails =p) and the DTYD party - just shows how ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... ya'll who committed (if you haven't - seriously - just do it. One small

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  front of friends and family. the ceremony was long and tedious, but it was ... less sense. and meeting page requirements is difficult as it is, but trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  all say how everything is easier after MIT. It prepares you for whatever ... the season last night. I went because it wasn’t just any last football game, it was DeRon Brown’s last football game. I was drawn to it as if it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Google

  

  it still felt inadequate. Career Fair came and went in a blink. I ... backburner. It wasn’t necessarily feeling like I couldn’t land an internship. A ... evening, I received an e-mail about a talk Google was having on campus. It

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 5, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  selecting for obsession

  

  Olympiad the summer after ninth grade. It’s easy to forget how smart he is ... Kyler at the time, but it isn’t intelligence I’m looking for. It’s curiosity. When I ask Chris how he got into chemistry, he tells me about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  stuff. As its number may imply, it's the first Mechanical Engineering class, and you pretty much just sum forces all day long. The sum of the forces always equals zero, or else you did it wrong and life is unhappy

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006