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

  

  accomplishments in soccer, you can tell that these women are not only extremely ... full schedule during soccer season actually helps her to get more work ... largely about showing high school students that MIT can be a great athletic

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

  CPW Problem: What Can People Wear? CJ pragmatically writes concerning poor weather

  

  (Condensed pre-word: CJ pens without constrained phenomenon within comments. Perhaps written clearer? Proceed warily.) Campus Preview Weekend, commonly pronounced/written “CPW”, progresses. Welcome, current prefrosh, welcome! CPW’s putative weather contraption prevents…

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 5, 2022
• 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 ... know you all are all: so I will take you there. I will take you to ... case you want some light bedtime reading. :P)

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

  [Guest Post] How to Build a Three Story Fort by Zack I. '27

  

  write up his experience as a project lead this year, giving you all a peek ... on top of the blocks. This was where our first wood cut inaccuracies began to arise. 2x4s usually come in 96 inch lengths unless you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 1, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  on campus on the mainland. It will get progressively exciting, I swear ... that our lab does is really related to anything the Echo can do, and they ... , so I asked [our group director] to get a couple.” And thus I learned

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application dreaming

  

  . You get the point) The best candidates to MIT bring much more to the ... world a better place. And we hope that you share in that excitement. But at age 17, we don't expect that you've discovered a cure for Alzheimer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  reject modern web design return to 2006

  

  can’t come out tonight i gotta sit alone in front of a muted tv opening and closing the same 4 social media apps until 3am i’m that kid you’re friends with for the first few days of school before you meet an actually

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A (Belated) Letter to July In which I start blogging again with an angsty video

  

  't see you again for some time, but I thought I'd send a note anyway. It ... ? Even though I don't feel right blaming you, July, you have left me more ... new ones. I mean, I have a job. A job where I'm paying to work for them

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  for: Resolving confusion about class policies. Getting hints about ... . Students can use it to share the classes they're taking and see the classes ... Canvas, so Stellar might be in the procss of getting phased out. Regardless

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  ...mushiness. Mushiness comes in sentiment form. People like that-friend-you-haven't-spoken-to-in-ages-because-you've-both-been-super-busy give you a call, or send you an e-mail, or (more commonly) write on your Facebook wall, and the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a crowded café or bar. Walking until I get lost and finding myself in the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  senioritis not to be confused with señoritis

  

  idea of positive work—even if you feel like you aren't making a stitch in the cosmic fabric of the universe, you certainly can do positive work for someone. there is enough positive work for you to do until you find

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

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  can only shed so much while you remain in the same place. When you ... to figure out what to throw overboard next. What can go? What can go ... out, realized “wait no! I can’t live without that!” and brought it back

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

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

  

  four years at MIT, but the experiences you can have abroad are also once ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you ... program. While I have been throwing numbers into my classes when I can (I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  neighborhoods we move into and come to love. What do pregnant mice, cheerleaders, and four-foot light-up tinsel giraffes have in common?

  

  'm here to update you on the breathtaking life of a biology PhD student ... how much longer until he/she graduates, but you didn't ask, so I'll tell you that I probably have about 3.5 years left. (Hopefully.) My lab

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 27, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  significantly more famous version of hacking is performance hacking, where objects find themselves in places where they don't normally go. You've ... relocated the Fleming cannon from Caltech to Cambridge in 2006. (If you like

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  vertical miles can your team climb? Oh-- and you're climbing between the ... , East Campus made that. Only bigger. See if you can spot it in the Bad ... pretty cavalier attitude—it's just wings. I like wings. It can't be that

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  MIT has brought its own set of failures. It's hard not to get hung up on ... code in Python in a Jupyter Notebook (via Anaconda). My data and code can ...  what I really got out of all of the confusion. High school is what you make of it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ;on Flux. You can read a cool article about his work on Minority Report here ... cover) When you go to see the movie, you should stay through the end of ... spoil it). If you do stay through the credits, do me a favor -- watch

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  tell your friends you love them for we are but blips in a timeline

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 9, 2024