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• 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 ... or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The long view days, months, years

  

  Club worked on a P&A issue was last semester. Miscommunication meant ... month since I last went to Dumpling House. I was meeting up with a group ... minutes, before we continued walking. On Monday morning I got a haircut

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fondue: fun and done A break from admissions at the Fondue party.

  

  [see also: Melis and the AXO Chocolate Factory] Last night, after a long Saturday of working to select the class, I hopped on the Safe ... fountain. And, to add a little more class, they also had an awesome jazz band

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... scary, a smile in a different context from what we are used to can really ... happiest people I know to model for my drawings: the bloggers! Here are a few

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  Break, expect to get a call/email from them tonight or tomorrow (you may ... hosts on hand, so we may be able to accommodate some late registrants for ... . Take a look at the schedule -- the bulk of events are put on by student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  blog entries might be a bit sparse over the next three months due to an ... and maps that we sketched out in Mr. Chicken. On Saturday, we went to ... took the train to Koblenz and took a four-hour trip down the Mosel River

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental Materials Answering questions about extras beyond the formal application.

  

  music activity at MIT in the music community are encouraged to submit a ... need to be a music major for this to be considered (most people who ... most music classes or to be a part of the music program. For more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  9000 Words This post doesn't have 'em.

  

  Figure 1. Life outside of classes. A) Study break to make Matt (or rather, Papa Matt!) a congratulatory card. B) On Wednesdays and Fridays, I ... friend Maita '13 (her feet featured in Fig. 1C) decided to add a little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... have spring break a week or two earlier, meaning we don't get to see many ... on my UROP but instead writing this. By the way, a few weeks ago I got

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... 's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  rationalize gravity on the quantum level, and thus finish the standard model a.k.a The Unified Theory, a.k.a Physics. That's right, it seeks to finish ... bills, don’t make weekend plans, don’t even finish applying to MIT, there

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... shout "On your left!" or "On your right!" and I will never be able to ... , there is Pearl Street, and a woman is sitting on her porch. She is sitting

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  things. I spoke on a panel about student workers with some counterparts ... appoint officers, on down until you get to the general admissions infantry ... made. Schools could have cut back on financial aid to preserve other

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  (!) on North Court for the first time since fall.I went to a [annotation ... It's finals week. However, there's a lot going on besides final exams ... and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  to slam through 15 applications (TOO MANY!), spend a lot of time on one ... 4 years now. I'll be honest, I used to know a whole lot more about it, back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  beautiful now). There's a certain serenity and peace about grasping on to ... Harvard on an errand, and had a great dinner at the Vietnamese place next to ... just means i have to prioritize earlier) I do keep a Post-It pad with me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... , besides insisting that we serve corn on the cob, was deciding on a theme ... graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading ... 't dwelling on the derivation of equations but rather getting to the guts of the ... a classic MIT moment for several reasons. First, it was a challenge to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004