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  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  the potential to make us very well off! Even if you fail, you’ll have ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... I wrote to a few of my friends, but I hope you find the material

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the Caltech prank (ahem - "failed hack" - the Tech definitely calls it as it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  people at MIT to make art projects. The pilot project, which gained initial ... able to go to too many of the excursions because the semesters never fail ... , etc., but were only ever able to practice those things independently

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Initiative) helps send students to other countries to do research with ... Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... often just to stay fresh on current admissions policies and procedures

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  should stay in the class or not. Allan: I was initially very opposed to ... For this blog, we are going to try something new with format. Instead ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  some initial thoughts: Write hand written cards to friends, professors ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the ... the air. I didn't know how to get around campus, I didn't understand the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Person Studying Persons… ...and why the Myers Briggs test is invalid

  

  -Briggs personality test. Knowing them to be brilliant, hard-working MIT students, I thought to reconsider my initial hatred of the MBTI. Could there be any ... for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  Believe it or not, admissions officers occasionally try to do things besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  ." Gee, thanks for inviting me initially, it's great to be more than an ... be -- and this is where my rhetoric fails me -- lame. To the younger ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  …But I never thought it would be so easy to practically fail. Almost ... good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round ... processed more than enough thoughts to fill five entries. But let’s start in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  places, goes to India. It is through initiatives like D-Lab or the IDEAS ... the Bollywood equivalent to, say, Tom Cruise/Hanks). When we arrived, the theater was packed. The last empty seat in the house went to MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  . Today I used it to pry a Simmons window shut when the handle failed. My ... everywhere in between.   It’s been used to eat freeze ... participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coffee Talk Random things I love about MIT #1

  

  subjected to load and which eventually causes it to fail. Based on their findings, creep could be reduced to the point where concrete could last for ... -imagining, too. Professors Ulm and Vandamme have shown how to slow concrete creep

  • by Dave McOwen
  • September 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  registration initiative that allows anyone to register to vote in Massachusetts ... Vote to help them register to vote, be reminded about local elections, and even be mailed an absentee ballot to their dorm. TurboVote is a classic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  initial thoughts wouldn't work (seems like a lot of flags to manage). He ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so...here we are). This past January, I learned how to code (again). On a whim

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  initiated together as eleven new brothers, the way it was meant to be. Beyond ... to the contrary, I'm the only guy out of four children. That's right: I have three sisters. And while I love all of them dearly (am I allowed to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  find me approaching hysterics that stopped me from failing to submit ... 've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... really was everything I’d imagined it to be-- and more. Somewhere out there

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  /AIDS initiative. He served for six years as Senior Advisor to President Clinton for ... come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes to throw at her. This past weekend was an extended holiday because of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013