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  A New Year, A New President Introducing Dr. Sally Kornbluth, the 18th President of MIT

  

  . Today, [annotation note="If you were on campus for an information session ... -elect; her term will inaugurate with the New Year on January 1, 2023. You can ... MIT News, as well as in an email sent to the entire MIT community by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  50 Reflections on 50 Things thinking back on The Blogfather's wisdom in my senior year

  

  , actually look forward to a respectable 9-5 job, so they can finally live on a ... plane safety rule: put your oxygen mask on before helping others. So ... life, nowadays MIT helps a lot more on the job market than it did 12

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 20, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  2, lived on the infamous Conner 2, played on the varsity field hockey team, volunteered on the campus ambulance, and blogged not nearly often ... MIT students do on Friday nights, The Stuff of MIT Legend, and Life, the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  I was in. I hope this can help provide some solace to you on this day ... from people who were not admitted on Pi Days past sharing their own ... elsewhere, and when my MIT waitlist decision came back, it felt more on equal

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  . I had been given permission to call in from my office on campus. Two ... to deliver the good news that I passed, but then his connection went ... chapters and take on new responsibilities. A distinguished professor in my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  An Open Letter to MIT Applicants Don’t Panic (and know where your towel is)

  

  Today on social media, I was greeted with an article about how one ... against major news platforms and don’t want to belittle stories that highlight some of the awesome things that MIT students are working on, I can

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  This Bathroom Ceiling Some science, some fiction: traverse the space and time of our bathroom ceiling.

  

  This summer while Random Hall is closed I am living on Beast, 2E, the second floor of the East Parallel of East Campus. Today I want to tell you ... 697665727365: Le Voyage dans la Lune (A Trip to the Moon) went to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  , indivisible tokens—which we will call pearls— on all the segments in the two ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to ... a Wonder Woman power pose. On the way from the bathroom to the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  my last undergraduate monday and everything i did!

  

  yesterday evening, and there is a lively discussion in the chat about what ... On the second last day of classes my freshman spring, I wrote a blog ... classes! That day, dear readers, was today. So here's a post all about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Took A Gap Year some things you just can't predict

  

  For most of high school, the US was just a vague blip on the radar of ... fast approaching, so I hastily worked on my Common Application, and sent ... fear precipitated by the high scores on the reject threads, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  today. And that’s the end of it. I’ll see you all on the other side of ... watched Rocketman with two of my roommates. Out of seven people living in ... living room, sipping homemade sangria that was filled with fresh fruit and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  counted traffic today!), for the most part our studies are focused on three ... organized chaos that is Hanoi, Vietnam, the last stop on my semester long ... different from those we live at MIT. Without the constant stream of problem

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  grad student who lives on my wing and helps organize wing events and ... in late January. I'm living in Next House after a busy on ... placed on the committee, and from there it is off to the races. Planning

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Major Crisis: A Follow Up what happens next

  

  reflecting a lot on what it means for me to be a computer science major and ... on giving students the computer science skills she felt went overlooked ... , we have a block of time to either do assignments in our curriculum or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 17, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  ten reflections on mit

  

   a new bike (also orange). I’m living on campus again, but this time as ... nice. Unfortunately, these are not recent photos. No snow lies on this ... two photos are from Valentine's Day 2013, during my first time on MIT

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  I got an email this morning from someone working for MIT News ... freshman year, but generally the first person I went to for help with anything."]advisor[/annotation]—recommended me to be a featured student on

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  creator of the amazingly useful CourseRoad (along with TeXcha, a La ... him on 4th West last semester while tooling on a 6.046 p-set. This is ... dorms would take on an entirely new level of technicality—the rise of the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Today I hit my TA with a door I didn't MEAN to.

  

  usually go in the back door when I'm late but today, TODAY for reasons still ... happened to be standing right there, going on about amide formation. And then ... 'm not just saying that because I nearly hospitalized him today). I ended

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an ... on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... DRobotics IRIS+ Drone, which joined our family early last spring. On its first

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  fish metaphors on queerness

  

  environment we lived in. We moved on with our lives. There are many fish in ... , looking back on it, there were signs: I still remember feeling an absurd ... the decision might have on my personal life. By the summer of 2017

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 18, 2022