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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The little things My last blog post as a teenager! See you when I'm 20.

  

  advisor and cool dude Alan Guth, and "Alex van O." is Alexander Van ... so much time to study I faced doing an entire 18.06 (Linear Algebra ... an astronomy outreach program I want to do, when I noticed that it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 27, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  aren't nearly hot enough." "I agree. What do you say to refining the ... , let's do it!"), and a lot of creativity from people who enjoy doing very ... helpful song about what to do when the zombie apocalypse comes) by Songs to

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp counselor. Lots o' kids, you know." Two months later, I am sitting at the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  volume 1 can be separated into two spheres of the same volume. Today we

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  This summer, living alone has given me the immense freedom to do ... Dungeons and Dragons. For those of you who do not know, Dungeons and Dragons ... characters, the intricate backstories that all of them hold. But not only do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  I have to do the same work that they do... O__O”) My emotions have ... ?? This is what 3 years of MIT will do to you...) 2.74: Bio ... type of work I want to do in the future (robotics!). ***** While I am

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I ... , but the professor seems to know what he's doing and the material so far ... quite enjoyable. Again, it was all about vectors, and I can do those. Our

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  do you ensure you make the best choice? You think about it. You imagine ... predictions for outcomes. But every time you consider more details, you do more ... , then I can’t go to event A tomorrow, which will prevent me from doing

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Prof. Catherine D’Ignazio on Urban Science for Public Good

  

  about who she is, what she's doing, and how people at/aspiring to MIT can ... 11-6) that we are doing in collaboration with Course 6. At the same ... activist collective out of Latin America. How do we use data and technology

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 1, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  much more confident in starting a project I don’t know how to do; I can ... -long vacation of doing almost entirely nothing? I spent the summer in large ... Ciudad de Mexico, where a friend of mine has family. We visited her family

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  Is playback audio needed? What is the stage setup? Do the performers ... stage, or do they need assistance? Does the performance have timed ... we have you at 75% volume? You’re drowning out the strings.” For

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  be doing something more significant than working in admissions. Ms. Dai ... questions like, "What happens when my son doesn't do well on an exam?" "How ... ; Student Aid Volume 52, Issue 44, Page B3  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  circuit diagram doesn't do much for me. It does have a little color going on ... are good for doing mini-Rorschach tests, especially the last one, which ... what those meant. The coup de grâce, however, is the almost comically

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  happened. My first week in Boston was spent doing an incredibly fun and ... , analyzing some of the coolest art I’ve ever seen at the outdoor deCordova, and ... home and no energy left at the end of the day to do anything but make the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  middle of the woods in Vermont (yes, I wear flannel and do square dancing ... in the mail from the Reserva Ecológica de Guapiaçu (REGUA). On it were ... reading about moths and malaria and What To Do If You Meet A Jaguar, I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  memories, as you normally do in the hubbub of real college life, you ... movies watched way too late at night. In the absence of doing these things ... in the end, those weird, random moments doing weird, random stuff are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  who I am? Like, where do they start to go, 'Now that's just weird and ... worked all through the holidays to receive and process the large volume of ... misplaced? Does MIT get scores electronically?" We do get scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ! recently i’ve been thinking about where i was/what i was doing exactly a year ... ", "princeton app," "common app version 2," and "whO AM i?". also, math team ... much about my experiences of reading and rereading these books, but i do

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  conversation: (Minus the fact that I DO NOT HAVE STEVE AUSTIN'S ARMS ... lights. I must say, if you ever try bouldering, doing it with blacklights ... the wall. Ootz ootz ootz ootz "O hai" So, moral of the story is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.

  

  leading me to miss my connection to Chicago O'Hare by approximately two ... has nothing to do with the above. I have been spending too much time on ... alone soon, I promise - I've had nothing to do for the last two weeks, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 23, 2009