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• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  There's always this hum on campus, some whisper of a noise either from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the ... machines, you'll hear it. Feel it, even. A tiny, rhythmic pulse that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  any good walking form should be: sustainable - if you stumble upon a ... hurt after a few minutes, you should probably only use it sparingly if at ... it’s a really nice day outside then i think you should walk slower

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  directly lived has moved away into a representation.[/caption] [caption id ... aspect of life fuse in a common stream in which the unity of this life can ... its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been ... bad, in a felt sense. i've been having more and more vivid dreams ... for myself. a friend i talked to about my dreams thinks it's neither

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  had everything ready already, but hitting the 'Submit' button takes a ... helped that I went to a boarding high school so I was used to being away from home for months at a time, but I also believe the general atmosphere

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  his homecoming tour. Keep in mind, this is a person I’ve been wanting to ... night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of serious reflection. After a thirty minute act geared around refugee and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two weeks have been much like a take-off. The packing. The uneventful sitting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm ... night falls the pink streetlights light the forest from behind, the snow a ... fireworks shows, a dozen at a time if you park under a mountain, each one

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

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  forty pages flipped in a minute). I prepared. I found some integrals ... fractions is a total drag. Anyways, I waltzed in for the written portion ... Hamilton-listening time took a serious hit. Partial fractions continued to be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... , patient, strong, hardworking, and, like all who graduate from Tech, has a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  data as being predictive or revealing: What's happening here is a ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15%, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn ... graduate institution. Of course, I didn't have a graduate institution yet

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan ... (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a ... US politics? Professor Pauline Maier, a history professor at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... with a committee of community members, acquired a grant from the county

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  dramatic monologue. "Wait...beat! That's it!" I called my friend David - a ... told him to bring his guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic ... enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  barefoot and promptly tripped over a friend's size 12 shoe. I ended up ... ), a white polo, and waterproof boots and help those in pain, instead of being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... itself. "Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note ... school procrastination. Yes, I am a terrible person. 1. I am not the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009