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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  human hand with legs sticking out of it.   Even if you aren't going ... match you with the first one that is available.   5. Receive art ... experience, and I can find colorful peace in the few stolen moments I have with

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  attack an innocent car with crowbars and sledgehammers. I was hit in the ... and rank the pieces, and a lottery determines with whom each piece will ... people, just with snazzy degrees and bulky metal rings. Orientation is more

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  frustrated with not belonging anywhere. Rachel Dolezal tried to pass for ... can distort with words, that no one can argue out of the way simply ... with the complexities of US racial tensions, I didn’t realize until I met

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people ... on the path to starting Water.org, with a brilliant civil engineer ... problems, we must first look and engage with the world as is. To cover our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  resonated with yells and the incessant thump and scrape of paddles against ... they were with another counselor, and some were on the beach, so this ... , no places to be. I was just there, with the mountains and the lake and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  any other Harvard building I’ve never been in. I sat with a dear friend ... and write a short description-explanation with one photo (by you) or a ... self-consciously. A man in white shoes, with white hair and a brown paper

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form submit this by February 15

  

  still required to complete the form with your latest grades. My school ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... .
   Next, we have provided you with a simple text box. This is the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  in the tunnels with friends a few times before, but as a directionally-challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... -blanketed MIT with my camera. I dug out all my snow and winter gear and bundled up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  and flexible with late documents from schools than with late documents ... you have already interviewed with your EC, or have scheduled your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  Convention Center, the BIABF was a bit like the MIT Career Fair but with coat ... first century of printing with ‘moveable type’.” Quite a few gorgeous ... Logical Works, with Porphyry's Isagogue"; Venice, 1495, Editio Princeps and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  the ApplyWithUs system. If your recommendation(s) still haven’t been ... MIT.) My ApplyWithUs page shows the document was sent, but MyMIT doesn’t (or vice versa). What’s up with that?Unfortunately, these two systems are not

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday (in Snaps) and my longest Snapchat story ever

  

  thing I’m all bundled up though, with a beanie and down jacket. 9 ... just a little distracted by the zoo animals, but I arrive at 10-250 with ... psetting… 00:51: Finally done with the 8.01 pset! #success OK, it's bedtime

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  , reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any ... rituals, not routines. I spent the summer mostly in Cambridge, with trips ... , I have already dispensed with, or still hope to develop. My progress

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  My favorite room on MIT’s campus a personal room of requirement

  

  my Friday schedule which begins with an 8:30 am meeting and ends with ... counter that I'll start with direct where-I-am/what-I'm-doing-now posts

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media ... technical systems are always technosocial systems, mixed up with cultural ... , with lots of student discussion guided/informed by Ethan and me. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  still required to complete the form with your latest grades. My school ... this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... .
 Next, we have provided you with a simple text box. This is the best place

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching no need to panic

  

  and flexible with late documents from schools than with late documents ... you have already interviewed with your EC, or have scheduled your

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 30, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  on par with a Dalai Lama/Noam Chomsky kind of lecture. In case you don ... with excited people. I'm mostly just really, really glad MIT students are ... with me) Last night, 6 of my friends and I went to go see PigPen Theater

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  But What Are They Really Looking For? My thoughts (advice) on navigating (surviving) the college application process.

  

  with my admissions colleagues and the incredible alumni who interview our ... , makes it special with potential applicants and their parents was one of my ... person anymore I still will greet each new class at MIT with excitement. I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 11, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... and fallen in love with that inimitable Joss Whedon space western, Firefly. I've shaken hands with my boss's boss, which puts me two degrees of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014