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  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your appetite: It was my turn to cook for the Tetazoo Food Coop, and my partner ... bathroom mirrors And on the door to the stairwell: Thanks, mom and dad

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math ... this year will be published on Tuesday. To make this a little fun, we ... rights. Oh, and in case you're wondering -- this number has nothing to do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Green Monsters

  

  . If you're applying for regular action, now is also a good time to ... wait until after Eid, so you can have your interview on a full, nourished ... . Yesterday was also the deadline to schedule the early action interview. What

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your ... .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  When I’m Home Did you enter the PE lottery yet?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The first time I ever went to New York City it was to ... , there's nothing like coming home to a pot of boiling beef stew and this ... Thanksgiving. I spent most of it watching Food Network and The Jeffersons on TV

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  to get worse Time to continue my book on tape Gas, break, gas, break ... beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... down I want to do big things, need to get better, am getting better Must

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.

  

  Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a ... Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... to be exact. Amal, the guy who organized the convention, was

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  Sacramento, CA) I left Boston on Wednesday last week to head for the West ... until I figure out to upload them to the blog :-( On Saturday (yesterday ... trip because I’ll get to meet lots of you in the process. I know I

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will you send me materials/prospectus/t-shirt/pennant?

  awesome monthly email newsletter that will keep you up to date on exciting things our current students are up to! We'll also send you important news and ... We appreciate your interest in MIT! We don't send a lot of mail (and
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  , calling to the surface a sense of pacing and beauty—on the sentence level ... relationship between Peter and Ivan, and I get that Margaret was supposed to ... on personal enjoyment/emotional impact and not at all on literary merit

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Redefinitions Name the planet contest REDUX.

  

  http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/pluto-new.html So now, we're down to 8 planets. Thus, the contest needs revision itself. Best mnemonic you can make with MVEMJSUN. Ready, set, go!

  • by Bryan
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back and ready for action! Saying goodbye to summer and hello to my sophomore year

  

  Boston on Friday night. We expected to hit a lot of traffic, considering ... those on the left, so a clever minivan driver decided to turn around and ... family went to my parents' friend's restaurant in Rhode Island. If you're

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  want, but not how to get there." For them, I weep frozen tears of ... Rails's unwillingness to install properly on his computer. 4:00 PM It ... psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... , and I want one of you -- yes, freshmen -- to come work in my lab and get ... be done on this problem -- and many, many other problems to be solved

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... Correction from my previous entry: I'm told that you can paint your ... -issue. However, there are a few freshman doubles on every hall. In these, the beds

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  ] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3 ... out phrases or clauses just to save on words, but I did it and felt like ... important part of your application, since you have the chance to open up about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i will miss learning and dressing up everyday happy last first week of classes to me and seniors of the world

  

  on my pre-registration. I only need to take three classes–biology, a ... enough time to calmly get [annotation note= "I spent the last week of IAP ... the whole day. I’m too old to not get eight hours of sleep. But, it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  interestingly organic that way. I also put stickers only on my bottle. I used to ... slipped out of my backpack on the plane...silly me. I checked my location tracker (because I am crazy and put a really old tile on it) and saw it was

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  's Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) program, his work on ... Class of 2010 Excels: from Rifle Champion to Water Quality Researcher From the MIT Alumni Association's New & Noteworthy When the 1,005-strong

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006