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  Late Night Thoughts On You Guys & This Whole Process Each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether or not…

  

  I've been thinking about something since I left work today, and felt compelled to log it here before hitting the sack... Please, please, don ... world a better place, whether or not you go to MIT. It's the truth. -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 11, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it's become a bit of a brain dump of ... or worse, it’s going to be over in three hours.  Projects, however

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  bouldering with them (think rock climbing but without a rope), I thought it ... 't "count". The technique was all wrong, it was beginner's luck. After what ... tired of my routine. "It's like you're deciding you can't climb these

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  .701), even though I learned it during my time away from MIT. I didn't think my algebra class was very rigorous, and in an ideal world, I would take it again. But it probably doesn't fit in my schedule, and it doesn't fulfill

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Awesome Biology UROP: florescent plants, genomes, metabolomes, big data, puzzles + more! Bonus: A VIDEO!

  

  -dimensional puzzle; and in our post-genomic age, it has become an INFORMATION SCIENCE ... the model organism, I joined the Weng Lab 8 months ago. It has been an ... series, I decided to make an episode about some things I do in the lab! It

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... . To which I'd reply, yes, but it's not the actual class that makes Pistol a HT@MIT, it's the instructor Mike Conti.   Background I took

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Simply Brothers Finding brothers and brotherhood in MIT's fraternities.

  

  " - a probationary member, as it were - I was formally and officially ... I'm a brother, I can say without any reservation whatsoever that it ... me if I "felt any different" after Initiation. It's a simple question

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... 't forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." Ling: "I don't think that you're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  , or CPW as it’s often written, was a scene that had unfolded in many of ... certainly get the gist of it. By the end of the first day, I was already ... too many windows (which I won’t name, but you can probably guess). It

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  MIT's main lecture hall is in building ten. It's also room 250. Therefore, by MIT standards, it is referred to as 10-250 (ten two-fifty). It ... generally well-liked. I mean, it's a lecture hall, it's hard to love a lecture

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  feelings that you don't know how to name; that's okay, too. For now, just

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at ... talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for our neighbors. we talked about how to be good allies to our siblings

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  students in the coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Renewable Energy in Spain

  

  technological accomplishments being made worldwide and how connections can be

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what you need to do

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Physics test (I also apparently don’t know how many AP Physics tests there are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning ... selected for GEL learn how to best tackle working in a group and take

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Post-finals stress? Oh, it happens. Trust me.

  

  're up to over ten bucks! How crazy is that?! Ben, I think you really are a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let’s look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be…

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

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