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  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  President Martin Tang GM '72 pledges to donate a generous sum of up to $25 ... sorts of "international food" since our class gift is going to establish a ... campaign Our class's theme is the "5.0 Challenge" -- to achieve at least 50

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Stories That Made Me My identity in books

  

  to blog. A major obstacle to if and how people read is discovering ... , the stories you relate to are a direct reflection of your personhood ... summaries, but I'll leave a link to an article about each piece. I'll also

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Selam’s First CPW Some thoughts and odds and ends~

  

  -frosh too. Now I am a freshmen, soon to be rising sophomore. Technically ... put my friendship. In addition to that, there was a lot of sorrow that ... prefrosh makes me very happy; I love enthusiasm and I want to maintain it. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 18, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  ' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.” - Robert Burns, To a Mouse And so it ... not to take this class and do other things instead, save for a few very ... decide to drop the class, too. So I go and unpack, get a hold of MY little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  cautioned off from the public due to a battle scene between the different ... waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by ... This semester has definitely been a rough one, especially around this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex ... friend Tiffany (MIT '06) for lunch; she's interning for Accenture, a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The question thread

  

  your decision letters from MIT. I'm sure you've got a bunch of questions, so I'm making this the question thread. You ask me a bunch of MIT-related questions, and I make another post with the answers. Questions, anyone?

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  In which I am somehow still an MIT student 4 years later

  

  have [annotation note="A cautionary note to the freshmen reading this ... , and trying to "make the most" of my last semester of college, despite ... , I was funded to work on data validation for TROPICS, a weather

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The good advice The many different flavors of advising at MIT.

  

  moment, I am dedicating myself to writing entries on a couple of under ... everybody wants to add a seminar to his or her schedule. Personally, I did ... allow students to pick their own advisors, and some take into account a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keep it simple, stupid I try to choose classes for the fall. Things get messy.

  

  it down to a select few. My ideal schedule looked something like this ... . On the plus side, this led to a really funny conversation where I tried ... 's not too big of a deal if I don't take it now. I'd love to take 8

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  kickoff the season, I thought I'd share a little bit about my acceptance to ... turned the radio back on. Vienna was coming to a close. There wasn ... this one shuts. Class of 2026, I am so excited to meet you. Only a bit

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  like it's going to explode more so than in my avatar. I graduated a year ... myself to leave the 'tute, so I took a job at MIT after graduation at the ... Tube channel - on everything from squid skin with a mind of its own to growing

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Don’t feed the squirrels In which I work with gifted children.

  

  was a counselor at this one camp and I was supposed to do it again this ... point, any summer job will do, but I'm not sure if I want to be a camp ... . Students are also not allowed to jaywalk - Sheridan Road, a fairly large and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  ) and February of this year. Last semester, on a whim, I decided to ... positive light, praising it as a vehicle for women to talk about issues that ... sexual assault. Others have contributed to the production by making heart

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  often takes a while to make decisions about what cards to play. (though it ... to learn that i had a lot of common interests with him, such as esp ... looking at all the games on that shelf earlier, when i wanted to play a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... ’d be taking three technicals in fall; didn’t it make sense to take the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... thumbtacks, bought the summer before I came to MIT, probably during a 2 am trip ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  . Despite my honest efforts, this is still a very pathetic attempt at making a ... have to complete Mastering Physics assignments twice a week. You are ... :00 AM the next day. THURSDAY A pset completed @ 5:00 AM leads to waking

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  event there was a dinner that spaces opened up for, and we volunteered to ... arcade I went to! 26) A snowman plushy our grandparents brought us when ... are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019