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  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  and take pictures of what lies in between on my way back home. I am also ... turn on my blinking bike lights, flip my kickstand, and pedal as fast as ... romanticize rain when I'm indoors listening to the drumming of droplets on my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... , but more on that later.  Before and After! At home, I was ... just hang some posters and art on the walls.   Some of my art

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “mens et manus” to refer to—and second, I never did any of them. Nor was I ... “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head: FIRST Robotics (or any sort of robotic shenanigans, really). Rocket

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our ... with you, write a report, and submit it as part of your application. With

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  and my oolong. Some of you called me out on my last entry, when I wrote ... go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  the hooding ceremony for MIT doctorate students and shipping out of ... maintain their own gardens Behind me is the bustle of Kenmore Square and Fenway Park, home to the Red Sox. In front of me is more of the Back Bay

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  years on the same floor, and in the same room for three of those four ... . Nearly all of my closest friends have lived on my floor at some point, and ... making housing arrangements. I have compiled a list of the pros and cons

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  , on my way to work. And the most complex of these is the traffic circle at the intersection of Route 2 and Route 3, on Memorial Drive by the BU ... ; Usually, I'm biking home in the sweet spot of post-rush hour and pre

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  opinions of all kinds about tradition and change. Today's MIT home page ... , with each of us choosing a merger case and exploring its respective ... all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  lot of experience, and if you have good, quick feedback on mistakes ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision making. He is one of my favorite social scientists, and his work laid the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  A Word of Warning (Pay Attention) A guest entry by Kelsey Kennedy '12

  

  April in front of my computer and went through the process of telling MIT ... and toasty back home in Oregon. I remember my first night walking back ... pieces of outerwear had been fine at home, they don't cut it here. There

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them to cancel my room at Burton 1, since I'm not home day or night, and my ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  't have any way of knowing what it meant for me, or what it would come to ... 've lived (my stepdad and stepbrother have, but not the rest of us), like some ... part of one's identity. I love my neighborhood back in Kentucky, and its

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  , Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Virginia. For a complete list of sessions, click ... don't have any questions find it interesting and helpful to hear other ... students on our database (MyMIT registrants and others) inviting them to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... went to the career fair for all of the free swag, and free swag was what ... fancy folder of resumes I spoke with a number of companies and handed out

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  anthology of essays and poems on medicine, and bought on impulse the story of ... of 7:30 and 8:30 am. Thankfully, there's an incentive for my atypical early bird behavior. The fare, both on the commuter rail and in the T

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  are endless, and what’s truly crazy is that any of these alternate ... sparkling and buoyant. I want to find that feeling on whatever of the one ... of a restaurant on Newbury Street in Boston and loudly cried and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  itself has kind of been taken over by Japanese restaurants and is home to ... one. So, you get two blog entries tonight, one of them all text and one ... still be real good time. On Saturday, I went to the Taste of Boston. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  on a private tour of Fenway Park, home of the Red Sox and oldest ... sailing pavilion and a boat ride on the Charles River with a member of the ... orientation stampede. And I didn't want to miss any MIT opportunities (helped

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  during any project. You begin in a sort of honeymoon phase, and then you ... 've finished! Yay! Seeing the P on my report card brought me tears of pure joy. No, not that kind of P. The pass kind of P! I passed calc, writing, and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018