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  The Scholar, Episode 2 A few thoughts on last night's episode of the reality television show "The Scholar"...

  

  neediness in terms of paying for college, are from middle class families. I really do think universities need to do more to make college affordable for ... Foundation, the same folks who funded MIT's new Broad Institute of genomics for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school ... for Exxon-Mobil, city planner, chemistry PhD student, and, oh yeah ... -listening hotline, for the score. Nightline's greatest service is in peer counseling

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Hosts

  

  : n. MIT jargon for prospective student]. It involved many late nights ... hosted meetings with the MIT student hosts for CPW. One meeting overflowed ... attend this meeting, but for those who were there, they received their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as a project manager for NASA. He goes back to rural India to a village ... to get a turbine to generate electricity for the village -- can it get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  past - please scroll down to the end of the entry for a complete listing ... than the 12 from last year, the Class of 2010. For more information on ... Stata Center (for the unique architecture? =p). I think the really cool

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To ASE Or Not To ASE preparing academically for freshman year

  

  half-explain/half-give advice on academic preparation for your freshman ... your transcript as simply a P for pass. No it doesn't matter if you got a ... earning letter grades for passing that do affect GPA, but you still will

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  moved out of Next House. As someone who lived there for all four years of undergrad, it felt weird. But I’ll leave post-graduation feelings for another ... was taking British Airways. I pretty much bummed around at the gate for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Community Projects

  CPW: ASA Midway, B1 B1athalon, and Cutting Crafts with Contour not to mention meet the bloggers

  

  beforehand, but I was too busy prepping for all the events I lead or helped ... laser cutter, teach them how to use it, and generate hype for MechE. When ... I spearheaded the organization and logistics for our three events. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 25, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  class for the second time: it's standard practice for people to repeat ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I ... instinctive for me,  everything just flowed a little better, and I was able to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... my work, I can hang out on the internet for 30 (or, you know, maybe 45 ... community centre every weekend for whatever class I was doing that season

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... looking for was much simpler - he just wanted to talk about the relationship ... imitate the classical style from ancient greece and rome. for instance, many

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

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

  

  for things I don’t pay attention to, until I recently talked to a few ... -Briggs types (though, he did stress that this was really just for fun). Curious ... few other tests besides.   Debunking Myers-Briggs My result for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • August 23, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for ... M. '18, Megan P. '18, and Anika Y. '18 (not pictured) for making House

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Blogs Turn 10: Looking Back, Looking Ahead data and narrative, past and present

  

  asking a bunch of former bloggers to come back and blog for us. In case you ... Thank you for reading by Jess K. '10 ADMIT ME PLZ? by Chris S. '11 ... story for you... by Chris M. '12 The Re-Froshening by Piper '13 Alum

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 13, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  or two digits. For example, "Course VI" (which is the only one written ... jargon) is MIT for "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Below are all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  academic resources for its members. Additionally, sororities provide ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... addition to providing opportunities for sisters to go out into the community

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... and on, all for about $10-$20. This year, not as many bands come into ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  recommend it i should also mention that there are other means for commuting ... ground when you take a step. not just for the purposes of walking faster ... while running, and that prevented me from walking normally for two weeks

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  of devising models and gathering evidence for and against them. The ... different and mutually conflicting theoretical perspectives on what makes for ... should also maybe warn you that this post is full of ~spoilers~ for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016