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• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  really. This is what our room looked like the morning we moved in from our temporary rooms: Not very inviting, is it? So we set right to work. The first task was to figure out how big the room was. This posed an immediate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An MIT FAQ Because it's better to laugh at blatant stereotypes than to let them make you angry

  

  Recently, in my wanderings around the internet (that is to say, the ... person and keeps telling me to "find the good". I decided to "find the good ... , seriously. I bet you all go to Star Trek conventions all the time. Do you know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  An MIT survival guide

  

  This is a list I made at the end of my freshman year in the reading ... give me enough alertness to get me through the rest of my day... plus it ... . Caffeine is great in a pinch, but eventually the piper must be paid. 2. It

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  : 1400+ students and 1100+ projects from across the world were at ISEF. One ... awesome students and see their projects. I made a list of all of the ... . A handful of the many awesome students: Nicole (an amazing young woman

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank you for your birthday wishes =) I'm in the office today, reading ... Wellesley College, Harvard University, the Massachusetts College of Art ("Mass

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Refactored

  

  bated breath. Where have I been? Well, for the past ten minutes, I was down in the Admissions Records Office, checking in on things there. Today was a huge mail day. The records staff is currently working through 14

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 2, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  BoA & Restricting

  

  ; Planning, Jeff is now a city planner for the city of Cambridge, MA) watching "Korean Music Countdown" on the International Channel, as we do most Monday evenings. BoA's "My Name" is down to #10 this week. The #8 video, "Windy" by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  The Apple Bake Competition is an annual event held by the [annotation note="one of the dorms at MIT, also where i live ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... ideas we toss around the office, we first began talking about this basic idea in December 2013, right around the time Amazon announced Prime Air

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and culture at MIT. So, since my entire life in recent memory (also known as the ... spell it? A: A “pset” is short for “problem set”, and it is the most

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  students do to manage stress, so enjoy the brief lapse into generalizability ... music!) The anonymous personage on the right did not wish to reveal his face to the interwebs. I have replaced it with that of the guitarist

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . The semester is really underway now, so that means tests and psets and ... . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... alone the summer. So it's not a definite, but it's something that I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What the end of the semester does to Conner 2 For one thing, no one does the dishes. And I mean no one.

  

  Hello readers. Happy Holidays to everyone! The term is over and I ... have taken a while for the mess to present itself (perspective and all that). But it had finally reached the point where it was worth

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  up, so I amplified the sadness by listening to more Bowling for Soup songs. I learned 3 things. The Girl described in "Girl All the Bad Guys ... song is wild. High school never ends. I cannot tell the difference

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions ... . This year, the first meetings are in Maine, Connecticut, Ohio, and Rhode ... at these meetings? What should you expect? First, the admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  your age group and the journey towards college. As you guys are among the smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really interested in what you have to say about this. I'm referring to the story

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  worlds. Actually, it's a story about going to a water park. But the reason my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... ridiculously good skiier (that really is him, by the way). I'm from a beach

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  I found one of my old sketchbooks the other day. I'm ashamed that ... Admissions, but when was the last time I sat down and let myself draw or paint ... [/annotation] major at Tufts and invites me to a life drawing session the other day in a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  right now    a lot of the times, i am my first invalidator. it is ... that it is not a big deal. but to pull out of the details of the context ... sad? why is it that i don’t feel entitled to sorrow?   the first

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  languages for which you can check if something is in the language in polynomial time. the difference is that NP allows ‘lucky guessing.’ an open ... equal. in multiple problem sets for 18.404, we messed up in just the right

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022