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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  those kids that spent half their time in various awkward positions on a ... more like 20, on my list, so that I always have back-ups whenever one of ... Again by David Foster Wallace (nf) (ran out of time on the library loan

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  with me on this one. Pony Rides Big disclaimer: there were no ponies present. As it turns out, adults and teenagers are too large to ride on tiny ... (and residents!) got to ride around our courtyard on two horses, one of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  be the most important of my life, yet they felt so uninspired on the ... like on paper. Each little essay is a snapshot of you as a person instead ... enjoyably intense focus on or absorption in a task. Flow is the best thing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  room several times before gently returning it to its original position on ... around campus on a typical Saturday afternoon. Maybe she's named something ... history, landing on her left palm and her cell phone, which heroically

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  is based on Alison Bechdel's graphic memoir (subtitled A Family ... made me reflect on the stories I want to tell someday. Powerful theatre ... -in-a-while about online video. We focused more on digital media literacy – things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... myself, paying bills on time, maintaining long-distance friendships, and ... lot" on your resume--but nevertheless it is important to know yourself

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  someone on Quora who claimed that 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. worked pretty well for ... isolation, on the other hand, has honestly been kind of nice. I know I shouldn ... with both of those happening at once than either of them happening on its

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  years doing research in the Saeij lab on parasites and the Gilbert lab on ... to four of these classes must focus on a specific field—Connie is ... seemed more pressing than a 20 page paper on the Roman Republic. But I also

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  “best move” depends on what cards your opponent is holding. Playing poker ... to tell our bot to guess at what cards the other bots held based on how ... are over $30,000 in prizes on the line, courtesy of trading companies

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... free food and interviews. I dubbed the event The Red Carpet Premiere. On ... I cringe at the recollection) I’m going to go graphic on you here

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  though the supervisors provide reports where they predict how you'll do on ... for all of this graded coursework is that they are all based on ticks, a ... each paper and choose 5 questions to answer on each one. What this means

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... portion of the class focused on projecting an image out into the Internet ... made one focusing more on my goals of eating healthy and keeping fit

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  wish I had a fedora and a whip (props if you have them on your first day ... Example – If we happen to be going to the beach early on a specific day, my alarm clock will decide to not work on that day and I will be left with an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  Midyear Grade Report is intended for students who have indicated on the ... not available. We will reach out to these students with instructions on ... MIT Midyear Report is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Don’t fill it out

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  needn't have worried about my protein consumption on campus (I've been ... confused at high speed than standing still for weeks on end. My 5 ... whether it will go on this way, blurs of weekdays punctuated by fast

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  a professor who's an expert on 18th century British literature. She ... 're interested, here's more detail on the classes I'm taking this fall: 8 ... and pushes you to come to the answers yourself; I walked out on Monday

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  fantastic opportunities in the past year. Ministry of Supply got to present on ... observe a fish is to become a fish.’” He took a class this semester on ... of Supply’s goal for 2012? Kevin says they’d love to be on Comedy

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  make adjustments based on student evaluations, but sometimes I wonder if ... , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... for us to monitor what was going on during the simulation. We wanted to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... , at the elementary school where I volunteer on Tuesday afternoons. My ... jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of ... individuals, who are on fire for God, in order to learn Israel's importance to ... at American Airlines working on several projects within the facilities

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011