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  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  While I'm working on a longer post, I wanted to write a quick post and share some of the old bookmarks I was digging through today. It's a ... a Santa Claus. Supposedly one of the most reprinted newspaper

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  Disney Channel paints a perfect image of exactly what it's supposed ... meal. Polaroids scattered in a half-packed bed room. Late evenings spent ... . Make Memories. Prepare. After all this is a really special time. A time

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  .[annotation note="Pappalardo is a gigantic course 2 lab/workshop that fills the bottom of building 3. It's also where a lot of course 2s live when they ... . It could get a whole 7 points. I don't care. Sure it was a bummer

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  monotonous routine of a 9 to 6 (or sometimes 8 to 7) work schedule, almost ... kisses on the right cheek when greeting and leaving a room and learned to ... ) and the traditional empanadas, stuffed with meat, egg, and a singular

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  Wow! It’s been a while since my last blag. I couldn’t blag during IAP ... things happened!! Look! I’m a robot! Now I’m a circus performer! (excuse the obnoxious vertical format ^^;) Now I’m a podcast! Now I’m 21

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest. Killean Court: Now, I'm stuck in the AXO house in Boston, where I live. A ... : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... at East Campus now, and not Next House, I'm spending a lot more time on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria ... recently, to get a small phone to use while in Nigeria. It always pulses with its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  seen wearing shorts and a tank top.  The temperature is well into the sixties, and the music is blasting from the EC speakers sending a beacon out ... a pre-CPW post, and this is my CPW update, informing you all about how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  uses a trimester schedule, please use your first trimester grades ... students, and students already out of school. You do not need to have a ... school has sent a hardcopy transcript, you are still required to submit the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  that there is a difference between a bad question, a difficult question, and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  Last Thursday, Bob Silbey, a professor in Course 5 (Chemistry) and ... finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm that there is such a thing as a stupid question (the answer was right

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Some Hosed Down Hodgepodge In which I breathe, then return to my business

  

  's prospective students, but I've had quite a few things unfold throughout this month, most ... astute readers might remember from last year), and it takes a lot more time ... old people do. So basically I had to edit this down a whole bunch in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  , said he got a phone call around 5:30 a.m. Several Swedish men were on the ... Square and Fenway Park. The Phi Delts have a beautiful house overlooking the Charles River; it was originally built as a mansion for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Famous people who didn’t go to MIT Some people are more successful because they turned down admission to MIT.

  

  You don't need MIT to be a success. Don't get me wrong -- I think MIT ... quite successful, and I applaud them for it! Let me tell you a bit about Kevin Gillespie and J.R. Hildebrand. In 1997-98, a student named Kevin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 23, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  When I was a freshman, like many before me and many since, I lived in a quad in Baker House. Four women, one big room, and all the fun and ... learn that a great way to spend an hour and delay doing a problem set was

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  As a freshman you will probably be taking two sciences, a math, and a ... a couple classes to choose from based on the results of your placement ... enter a lottery during the summer for their HASS course preferences. There

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  to be evil. Why? Here's what it looks like. Problem 1/ a -- s Problem 2/ a -- c Problem 3/ a -- f Problem 4/ a -- l That's right, you're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... should be a little interesting, maybe. 21M.705: The Actor and the Text You ... scenes all of the time. A typical 2 hour class starts with a warmup, some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  Alright, it's been a good five days since our blogs have come online, and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... upon while on campus. I spent a good chunk of time during rush with the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008