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  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  message from her asking if I had ever attended any classes at the Russian ... you have to pay for. When I told her that, she mulled it over and then ... 's hard to accept brilliance at face value when, well, sub-A level grades on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... here, at this moment in time. Do you know how hard you've worked up until ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... , where all my media stops: I was playing for the rest of the night and, as ... at the end was definitely occupied prior to being sat upon: Though the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric ... then load them onto the mills/lathes. Then the tool does all the work for

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to ... . A few weeks ago, I realized that the word I was looking for was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm ... semester for me). Anyways, that's why I'm back. Also, I really like poems ... they are laughing at me, and all around me is racket of these cats not

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  them. [Also, for those of you at MIT, the Muslim Student Association is ... time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... relief to finally understand everything people said, but here I am, at MIT

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I ... entry to blog about my CLASS SCHEDULE for this term! In the meantime, I ... for a class. I feel so smart just being in a class with that name, to be

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  annoyed when people outside of MIT laugh at us for calling pranks "hacks ... there for anyone to listen to. I know I have Ben's band on my iPod. =P ... 'm filing this entry under the "MIT's Mission: Who We Are" for a couple of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Xanga Survey Mid-summer frivolity, part one.

  

  horrible memories. 19. I watch Pay-Per-View movies late at night. 20. I am a ... ' nails. 28. I have way too many purses. 29. I've seen Fight Club at least ... visited. 32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason. 33. I hate when people

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  I'm working desk for 4 hours tonight to get a head start on my 10 ... movies from our dorm collection for free), and although he's a trustworthy ... . 10:49 -- Shouts of "Oreos at front desk?" abound from down the hallway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... acceptable). CDs will be forwarded on to the music department for evaluation ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any ... (the secret twentieth character for sword really does look a little like ... although I am probably the biggest American Idol fan at MIT, I couldn't sing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  from him over the last 17 years. For those of you trying to figure out ... equipped with backstories that served as foundations for his work. Besides ... what other people were doing, or even what people liked at the time. He

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Institute of Contemporary Art College Night #2 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  (See the #1 Boston Adventure at the Boston International Antiquarian ... suits. Not particularly interested in huge games at the time, we headed straight for free “Thirsty? Need a Snack?” section of the room. Got drinks in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  Achilles heel. It’s not for want of trying. I bake a lot; last summer I kept ... ’ve had a lot of successes (at least judging by how quickly my cookies ... a little different here at MIT. Sure, I’ve done generally pretty well

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such ... student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the ... at least one humanities/communication class per semester. As you may be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  at the outset, but it makes tons of sense once you understand the ... there. At MIT, we refer to rooms in a format like this: 10-100 (the ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  /14/15 at 9:26AM: So now, a few weeks and a lot of press coverage later, I ... receive from the office instructs them to keep an eye out for "delivery owls ... can carry anything at all, seriously carrier pigeons are The Worst

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• FAQ / Transfer

  Does MIT require standardized tests for transfer applicants?

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