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  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  posts that came out of my UROP research on the history of early ... hijinks and jokes in my previous yearbook-inspired post (here). This section

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day, but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT of the Late 1800s, According to the Students snippets of history from the first 10 yearbooks

  

  One of my UROPs this summer was exploring the history of immigrants and international students at MIT. The Institute has a long history of ... undergraduates at MIT were international. My summer research, however, did not

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 27, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  sent) in RA. What are my chances in Regular Action? Once we defer you ... kind of complexity. My advice would be to send in the FUN form and then

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  reading on. Set is rather popular on my floor, Conner 3. My suite has a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  . Regardless of his intention, when I read that passage I saw this in my mind ... to light for a deeper kind of sight, in my favorite passage of the book

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  schools, but that letter hurt the most, not only because it was my first ... should expect your decision in March, precise date TBD. My guess is that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  on my Smartpen, and happened to also record the serenades to share with ... inactivation, and then I went home. My boyfriend and I had sushi with forks and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I sketched up this guide on one of my flights after 4 hours of intense analysis ... my life will be a little easier. EER- Emergency Exit Row FR- Front

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  two of my favorite songs ever (warning: explicit language, in case the ... graduated and moved away, much to my distress), and I can testify that laws of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  communicating one to IR. Additionally, my review of our internal training materials – as well as my conversations on the matter with multiple former

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Dalek or back-to-back exams during hell week, I might take my chances ... hacks during CPW, if not my time here, was the one pulled on building 54

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  quadrotors to down an elephant. Swag, lots of swag. If my collection of free ... contrast to my terrible jokes, Twitter had some beautiful notebooks, jobs

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my first semester at MIT is that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question ... meantime, I shall be refraining from asking my little cousin (who was just

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  equally awesome (shout-out to my homeboy Prof. Peter Reddien! Also an MIT ... any questions you’d like me to answer in my video in the comments

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2010 Apply...if you dare!

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) It's hot. And I do mean very warm. My bike has been sitting out with one handlebar ... this morning the grip literally melted to my bike gloves. 2) Vacations

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  exhibits I have seen anywhere and is easily my favorite LVAC exhibit that I ... drawings in India ink on Mylar®. ABOVE: "Finding My Way Home" (2010

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Jonathan Gruber ‘87 (CPW Preview!) Our second CPW Keynote Speaker, Economics Professor Jonathan Gruber '87, answers a few questions in…

  

  -care expert." Q. Can you tell us about your current research work? A. My ... undergraduate? A. I was on the tennis team and worked on the MIT Yearbook my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... acclaimed Professor Lewin) During my freshman year, I took 18.02 (a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  my fellow cadets. The general theory behind these challenges, big and ... adjusting to the intensity of regular MIT, but by the end of my four years

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009