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  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  , arriving in mailboxes across the nation just in time for everyone to celebrate today's excuse for the industry to make lots of money selling ... the Admissions Department has cooked up for its Early Action admits. If

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  my Dad's money in exchange for the best education I can get. I hope I ... breakdown for five minutes when I realized I was going to college with a couple hundred geeks. Luckily, MIT wanted to pay for my trip to CPW, so I

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  business is not an option for most people, though it is a convenient way to ... job and being out of the loop for a few years can really reduce your ... employer would take on by spending a lot of time and money to training you

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  astrometry, UVA now uses it primarily for teaching and public outreach. On the ... cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... (yay!) as well as new friends. After my radio astro talk, I talked for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... sunshine. And where hot street-side pakoras were perfect for a rainy day. A ... back in Boston for a week now. Roosters replaced with phone clocks. Kites

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  startup founders, rode an UberCHOPPER for free, and got into the TechCrunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Calm Down and Breathe Heeeeeehooooooo

  

  In which my brother and I embarassingly parody a song (first one to recognize it gets some brownie points):  Edit: Evidently I am not so good at predicting outcomes of NFL games. But seeing how this post-season has been

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  braids for the first time. Luckily, I got my hair done by another student ... hair in a protective style for a few weeks and not have to think about it.  I went to Veggie Galaxy, a vegetarian restaurant on Mass Ave, for the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  outreach programs include BoSTEM (a summer STEM program for underrepresented minorities), dynaMIT (a summer STEM program for low-income students), and ... leadership to high schoolers). Like CodeIt, students who serve as mentors for

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in EAsT camPUS A few of the basic things to know.

  

  cupboards for everyone? 2. Cats are allowed! Yay. Other critters have been ... test. With ourselves often playing the test subjects. 5. We don't post everything we do to YouTube. We're kinda too cool for that. But we also have a

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • July 31, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds, Part 2

  

  the May 1st postmark deadline for your college decision, I figure now is ... 's still been done for a couple weeks now :(" And Anonymous wrote, "Why have ... can look into it for you, too. I've already been able to track down some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  While everybody else pores over equation sheets for 6.041 or 10 ... the P/NR system, have spent the past week playing Final Fantasy X on the ... , like, needlepoint or something: So, just wondering--not for any reason

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  "Make Way for Ducklings" statue[/caption] The "MIT Bubble" is definitely ... a tourist visiting Boston for the first time. BTW that's supposed to ... if I had pictures of skulls engraved onto tombstones. This was for her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  . already. So without further ado, my top 10 excuses for neglecting my blog ... 2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... students for a chance at a summer internship. Momentum was a truly amazing

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  MIT, aside from Boston, I've lived (stayed for >= four weeks) in ... interpreter training system for Mandarin speakers, and help more critical-need Chinese cancer patients apply to treatment subsidies or apply for insurance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Under Water catch your breath

  

  known for the [annotation note="the feeling of being overwhelmed by ... earlier in the semester I had asked my mom if I should spend the extra money ... studied hard for the biology exam right up until the last minute, and passed

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... , that's at the root of it. For what it's worth, I enjoyed some Mediterranean for a birthday lunch at Vlora, right over in Copley Square. As it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation ... , who won the 2002 Nobel Prize for Medicine for his work with the genetics ... as Paul worked at for UROPs), won the National Medal of Science in 1997

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  , tried out for a cappella groups, played sports, and more. The formal ... first day of classes ever for the MIT Class of 2014. The past couple of weeks at MIT have been Orientation for the incoming students -- they have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  . Diaz has been doing many interviews since he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, but an appearance on Colbert is always... interesting. For those ... programs like "The O'Reilly Factor." On the show, Colbert plays a character

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008