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• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  level of Cambridge, MA increased with the arrival of my 10-year-old little ... . You may even recognize The Goober from his appearances in some of my videos. The folks on campus certainly did, as upwards of six people

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  MIT and communities in the Amazon rainforest. For the rest of my first ... .[/caption] In the blink of an eye, the first third of the trip was over already ... Prologue “Guess what, gang?” Fred Harris – the director of the MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  .112, the next level of chemistry, which meant in order to keep the 18 ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first half-week of classes, and my first problem set, which was intense. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  pictures...(I must say I got a good laugh out of the first one, and I just ... ! THE PRIZE! I first came across this game in the game cabinet of a New ... from Peru after 4 days working to clear the yard of bricks, hills, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  . :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  on our first turn than the other. I won 2/3 of the time overall, but 100% of the time when I had the higher first play (which happened twice ... first two columns of the figure below) we can see that there was no trend

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  New Semester From caving adventures to amazing classes, MIT is awesome.

  

  .   Pistol First of all, I JOINED THE PISTOL TEAM! (Photo Credit ... to our first away match of the semester on the 2nd and 3rd of February ... during their first year at MIT. I placed out of the CI-W requirement

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  impactful solutions. For the first time (but not the last), the ingredients of ... LGBTQ+ human rights movement, the flux of international refugees. It is ... involved. In the great tradition of MIT, our undergraduates want to pioneer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  72 creds. But then I went to the first couple of lecturers, and the ... streaming diagonally across the piazza, splashing rays of golden yellow onto ... squabbling over pieces of bread, the plaza is deserted except for an eccentric

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  . May Mashego, the former First Lady of KZN. The women at fresh. Nurses ... journal. I anticipated that the next ten days in the epicenter of AIDs would ... there was a part of me that was always in South Africa. And through the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Let’s talk about interviews The ultimate guide

  

  's the whole point of the interview after all. On average, you can expect ... -dimensional person, which is what we strive to do with all the other parts of the ... based on the availability of alumni in your region of the world.  It is

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... . The Bee was between the first and second semester. I might have trouble

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  the first long weekend, where professors assigned the same amount of ... Kresge Auditorium, and almost the whole class attends, but, in lieu of that ... fond memories of it"]Prudential Center[/annotation] for the first time in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Candies and Costumes and Pumpkins and CATS Princess Leia and Orphan Annie ran around with laser guns and threw candy at people.…

  

  of costumes worn during the day around MIT's campus. I personally was ... weird being out of the norm. It's strange that I still feel that way, like ... dressed out of the norm. Wearing just a flannel shirt is out of the norm

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Ask Me Anything go on

  

  I do a small amount of requisite shopping, I am going to eat an entire apple pie and a whole bunch of delicious bread, then watch twelve hours of football until the insulin pouring out of my eyes from all of the carbs sends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a driver, I’m a winner Things are gonna change, I can feel it.

  

  whole brevity thing." This is sure to be one of the prouder moments of my ... those of you who know me can guess, the other six entrants were really no competition for me in the field of SPAM. Here's my award-winning speech. "My

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  understand this. First of all, the red subpixels let 100% of their light ... . Disclaimer 2: This description is the product of 2-3 hours of Google-ing and ... false. Believe at your own risk. The Question: A couple of weeks ago

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  am i doing this all wrong? thinking thoughts and feeling feelings

  

  bouts out of the blah. On one of my days of the blah, I sent an email out ... nice way to still connect with those close to me outside the world of ... being able to tell longer-form stories and play around with the media of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  So...remember that time, way back at the end of first semester, when ... page, he "has explored the question of whether it is in principle ... wrong building, which irked me (in the wrong building for my first final

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  , the concept of IAP is pretty amazing. It’s an entire month of freedom ... make our own decisions regarding the time allocation of our lives. Time ... , neither burdened by the distracting academic load of a semester, nor the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016