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  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  watching (i.e. water polo), it was hard to know how good MIT's varsity teams ... other athletics at MIT; I'll do my best to find answers. P.S. I'm not ... When I came to MIT I joined the marching band. We played at all sorts

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  Tony, who was on the MechE sub-team, not Software, came to help as well ... Tuesday morning, Dec 12, after the presentation I don’t know how to ... knows more than you just how to make it work. Figuring this all out on our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Guest Entry: Stephanie Lin Presenting MIT's most recent Rhodes Scholar!

  

  in my life. the food, not the LA) and then went back to the hotel lobby ... my vocabulary was limited to “Thank you,” “wow” and “[silly grin].” Not ... (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Praise Of Holistic Admissions not an admissions machine

  

  fundamentally subjective process - not everyone is going to agree with every ... office, is emphatically not to admit the "best students" to MIT, but rather ... Booker T. Washington wrote: "Success is to be measured not so much by the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  Rico to see how “knowledge, expertise, practices, and corruption ... tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more diverse and inclusive Institute ... they can insure the future peace of the world.” To achieve this ideal

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  laptop cases? this is not that post. this is a post about my desk, which seldom has enough free space for me to actually get work done.  [caption id="attachment_48651" align="alignnone" width="3670"] ~not sponsored

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  last semester to not be about me, the more i was able to do. so in no ... surprising amount of momentum behind me, but i don't think i managed to pull off the effortlessly forget to turn in an assignment thing. so i had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • March 10, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  ...and then commented on how late it was to be sending him an email. So after ... very familiar to a lot of people on campus simply because of how much he ... like before, I'm gonna continue to give y'all a glimpse of whatever just

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, Semester 1 fantastic dishes and how to cook them

  

  does not require resting. Cut across the grain into thick slices to ... apparently, not everyone cooks only eggs and toast like me.) warning: pictures ... exposure to American food has mostly been limited to what I can acquire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 8, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  5 Historical MIT Videos looking back on what we left behind

  

  lot of persistence for me to not get frustrated and give myself time to ... , and how exactly this relates to the emphasis on science here I wouldn ... think about how it would have been to be a woman at MIT when only 5% of

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

  Beyond the Stop Light it's been a ride, MIT

  

  P.S. Even though we won't be posting on the MIT blogs anymore (at least, not regularly or consistently), we will still have online presences! If you would like to see our content beyond these blogs, we will be

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I am a sad sad toaster made of glass. Do you like your toast with tears? Because I'm sad.

  

  how well I did on it. I really couldn't motivate myself to look at the ... DID YOU KNOW? The state of Arizona does not celebrate daylight ... for you. Actually this entry did end up being kind of long, but it's not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  does know how to weld in real life--a skill she learned as part of D-Lab, a group of courses that aims to teach how to perform engineering in ... imagine an Asian Batman? Why not? How come that thought doesn’t even cross

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An actual day in the lab Hectic is my middle name.

  

  vacation since finals ended due to moving and setting up the apartment)... my body is not pleased that I'm getting up so early. 7:54 AM. I roll out of bed and get ready for work. It takes a long time. I am not what one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  actual conversations i have definitely had with freshmen during orientation

  

  * * * ME: hi i'm allan ME: how's it going FROSH: cool ME: cool ME: have i ... : you should come to auditions ME: no experience required ME: we're definitely not a cult * * * ME: so where are you from FROSH: minnesota

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 30, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Snively’s Cross Stitch Corner I really enjoy cross stitching

  

  try it sometime! If you have questions about how to get started just ... "things alums do in their free time." In late 2011 I taught myself to cross ... needle and different colors of thread. I took an instant fancy to it. Why

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  to graduation I was glad, but not super-excited. The big day came ... black cowboy hat (he attached the tassel to the brim.) I'm not sure about ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled upon (actually, not really. My professors for 20.363, Biomaterials ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  Flashback to about a month ago, when Chris sent an email to all the ... to help out with a side project. A couple back-and-forth emails later, I trekked over to the admissions office to pick up this: And my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  something, then try to force myself not to think about it, then fail, then ... rewriting and fretting around my application to MIT, I managed to have it submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014