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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers." I had previously listened to a grand total of Zero alternative country ... a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Inspired Brainstorming Three pieces of advice I employ

  

  mind take me wherever it wants. I pull out a piece of paper and a BIC pen ... ; 1. “The sky is the limit” - Mom Since I was a very little Gabe, my ... , Mom came home and held out a pillowcase. It was light blue with hot air

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... -- but also shows off and helps fund student projects. a day at the fair I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Love MIT And why you should

  

  that are on campus. If you love to sing and dance, there's a group for that! If you like playing Starcraft, there's a club for that! If you enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee, there's a team for that! I can pretty much

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • February 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  team, taking 16.810-- a 6-unit class called ‘Engineering Design and Rapid Prototyping’ (more on that in my next post) and interning with a company in Kendall Square in Cambridge-- a global innovation hotspot (and in MIT

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  As we’ve already seen, tests can really throw a curveball into one ... schedule out there. Tests introduce a whole new variable in time management ... units mean that this course is a slightly smaller time commitment than the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  When I walked out of my last final, all I felt was a huge sensation ... for this day to come, for this year to end. But now, a large part of me really wishes I were still a freshman and not a sophomore. It feels strange

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  noticed a severe drop off in the number of blogs, which may make perfect ... our dorm. We planned a "Legends of the Hidden Temple" themed party, a rave, breakfast every morning, a food fight, jello wrestling, and a ton

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  Back during IAP of last year I wrote an entry about a brand new "toy ... , and looking back at it I realize that that entry sounded a lot like a commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  other college in the country, right?".   A few months ago I was ... UCSC. He had gone to see a friend from high school who was either a junior or a senior there and was blown away by the setting. "Absolutely

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  disappointment, nary a single spambot showed up to the CPW Meet the Bloggers night ... obstacles like CAPTCHAs and hyperlink filters. Take a close look at this picture, and there's a good chance that you'll find yourself*: *This

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  dinner tonight was a really bad idea.)(These people may also be my stomach.) (Also, to those who note that it's taken me a while to post again - WE'RE IN A RECESSION, PEOPLE.)(Actually, I really didn't post this for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  fam for a bit, so I flew home a week early. We went "up north" for Labor ... part of the lower peninsula, going "up north" usually refers to either a ... . In my case it's choice A.] On the 4-hour drive up, we stopped at Taco

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  everything you own in a few hours and still get some sleep? Laundry is tumble-drying in the bexley basement. I went to a movie tonight called Vicky Christina Barcelona playing at the Kendall theater. Went in pouring rain in a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  enough, I had a big problem on my Dell where the installer crashed every ... days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... apparently wrong in my computer in a very big way. The guy recommended wiping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the ... Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  So, the past week and a half or so ("has it really been that long ... Obama rally the night before the primaries. I've never attended a presidental anything before and it was definitely a cool experience, even though

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  -free vacation I had... they were a bit shocked. You're going all alone? they asked ... for set me up with a beautiful apartment in the Cite Universitaire in Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  , despite the small number of comments from parents, there is a large ... college admissions season can be a particularly anxious time for students. I ... going to college?" "What schools have you applied to?" "When do you get a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I decided to do you one better and give you a bit of a dorm tour! So here are a few glimpses of the Haus. (The Haus/House spelling used to be an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007