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  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I—I hardly know ... -re-re-re-re-rewriting, but I had a weird conversation with my friend in which they mentioned ... provide some estimates about myself as I exist today. a thing, about me P

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  In mid-November, a [annotation note=undergraduate association ... -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... writing to comedy and, uh, culinary, which is a testament to the interesting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  oversharing first base what have I been up to for the last 2+ years?

  

  So, hey. I'm Jude - I was hired as a blogger in fall 2017, fell off the blog train for a bunch of reasons, and then never quite figured out ... a year, and I've been living in comfortable silence for almost all of

  • by Jude H. '21
  • December 11, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Somewhere in between Trying to find out where I belong at MIT

  

  and purposes I am a junior, a 2020. I will not be graduating until 2020 ... classmates are 2020. On the other hand I am a senior. My oldest friends walked ... first time, I am spending a lot of my free time UROPing, and now I am

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 13, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions ... be Stu) and share a communications team, and are working with ... chance to blog a preview and talk about some of the design decisions we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is the key to their culture; there was a big difference between my General ... and my Hispanic friend’s quinceaneras. There was a realness, a distinct

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  , but for a Set of Inexplicable Reasons it did not go up in time and has ... (and this might make a lot of people mad), whether you are an INTJ or an ... up being a student at X or Y school is also something you can

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 ... appealing?   Step 1. Determine your eligibility Are you a full ... transportation twice (or more) a week? As a senior mostly done with the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... robot-related tasks, each year with a different theme. The year's theme ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  -to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result ... of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  independent living group, that means: Improv, meditation, DIY sushi, a jam ... , hair dying, Italian dinner, forkapple*, shoeblade**, a tea party, and ... *** and hot chocolate on Saturday ...and a healthy breakfast Sunday morning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  We've had makers on the mind here for a little while. Earlier this ... wrote a white paper for the White House about technically creative ... Portfolio at a small conference in California. Last year, before we launched

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT = Home the excitement of a freshman

  

  MIT is not about the challenges of problem sets. It’s about a ... the brain revs and pushes onward through a Problem Set. The feeling ... lifts to reveal a fascinating life. I have found my perfect match, my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 14, 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 ... planetarium, when we promptly found ourselves blockaded by a veritable barricade of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  reconsider sales we missed. With summer vacation being a short 2-3 weeks away it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of ... a lot of people have been asking what movies are still canon. X-Men 3

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  . In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in three, I'll be ... just walked out of my last freshman year class and that a full quarter of ... myself as a prefrosh, wishing all you younger-uns best of luck for what

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  impressive!) after every joke. And there are a lot of jokes in Book of Mormon. After the show finished and the performers had taken a few bows, Elder ... silent, he cued Elder McKinley, who asked us to join the cast in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  anything...) Since I'm a visual person, I drew this little photo to explain ... a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... done. You know that thing that they say where learning at MIT is like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk. The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk ... 2017, right now, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Before me lies a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013