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  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... with Quizlet flashcards on a whim. Perhaps one of my more useless whims ... maybe we were spending a little too much time hyper-focused on the parts

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  enough already, but seriously: What the heck happened on far West Campus ... processing power, for our tour inside. Mind you, on the outside W91 has an ... gigabits per second on its own, so yeah, you could say that we at MIT have

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  more than the planet it lives on. Joe is also an extremely talented ... blog post on her second-favorite admissions-related blog.   Yuliya ... written several novels, and is currently working on another one for her

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten ... around. During CPW, I was just as lost on the MIT campus as they were. But ... stories to its death onto an equally bulky 400lb grand piano waiting on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for ... bus during the day on Sunday and I need to go to campus and it is

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  - Shakespeare, Western Civilizations, chemistry, Pre-Calc/Calc, band, and so on ... multiple disciplines.  I talked about consilience on my college applications ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  (by day of the week) into cooking teams of 3-5 people. I'm on the Friday ... . What we cook depends on who's cheffing. Within a cooking team, we rotate ... house in time for the cooking day. 3. Show up on the day, and ensure that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it ... courses, I began to see the layers. They let me take the course on startups ... imminent negative reaction on my part, gracefully tell you that you can do so

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... back on the past four years, I can finally say I do. I can also cross ... ) after an 8:00PM track race that went well and I was so hyped up on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  Boston on the other bank, pictured above. It was windy. I was cold. My ... put on when it's cold and take off five minutes later when it's not cold ... about $20 on it for food. If you actually need any of it, you are again

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  the community. The team is also gathering feedback on solar lantern ... to work on the design of the bin and later discovered the brilliant ... és, which works on large-scale environmental projects including cooking stoves

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out ... from a firehose. Now that I look back on it, that letter was asking me if ... -crazy free food all around!) I'm not on a meal plan (because I like to cook

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  ).  Since then, I've been on the ETOOMUCHADVENTURE side of things - the curse ... catch you guys up on what I've been doing. I will start it with a post ... hooked on this idea.  In a nutshell, there exist satellites called SPHERES

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  prep course. This decision is totally dependent on the type of person you ... understand, and complete with practice questions that were very much on the ... this book to be on par with or even slightly better than the EK orgo book

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  I went on to Princeton Review, searched for liberal arts colleges ... 's Admissions Office. The first time I stepped foot on MIT's campus was for my job interview. I had gotten lost on my way in and called the admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... had five on my list, he nearly fainted...that meant he would need to

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  -1 only has two days left on Hulu!", or d) all of the above). However ... drop more blocks on your opponent's screen. It looks something like this ... . For an hour, I battled any challengers who wanted to take me on for a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  on the student's performance as a leader. The assessed students then fill out a "yellow card" on their own time. Yes! The blue and yellow ... the cheerers last year, and I ran around with a red "M" painted on my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  complaint like, “I was five standard deviations below the mean on the last ... 's not a riddle.” On the other hand, General Relativity has been an eye-opening experience on the days when I've drank enough coffee that it hasn't been an eye

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010