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• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  experience, gently tugging on the writer's (aka, my) natural tendency to share ... nights ago, I cut across Killian Court on my way home from campus. It was ... evening sky slathered on the grey-blue brink of dusk. As I traipsed through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  This One is for the Families… ...but applicants can read it as well...

  

  on their first vacation they thought their parents were so much smarter ... been gone a long time but I was reminded of this story when I went out on ... thoughts on the subject...so these are my "two cents"... Admitted: Obviously

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 12, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  the blue paint on our walls wasn’t magic enough. And then I had to blog ... sitting on this deck in the woods, minding my own business, right, when ... party tent. But then the tree kind of fell on the house, I made a break

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  which is located on 34th street in New York City. (Hence the movie title.) In fact, I just passed Macy's on Tuesday night- the bus I take drops me ... kitchen, the TV in the living room is left on channel 4 (NBC) which

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  which were back-to-back), writing about 30 pages on subjects ranging from ... handful of times and woken up gnawing on my pillow. So, because this is a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  the nobles, which focuses on four young ladies and gentlemen who quickly ... human boy up on her own, as best she can; Oberon is furious at her refusal ... —what is going on, who is doing it, and where it's happening. The best way to

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  smelly for a couple of reasons: A) I didn't know I needed a seminar on ... ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the ... the seminar was at a restaurant where we dined on MIT's bill. A good

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  around Conner 2 (The floor on whichith I liveth). Well, the first isn ... 't purchase anything that was on sale, I did buy a lava lamp! I had a lava lamp ... to paint murals! The mural I'm working on is a scene from the end of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... session on the Dot being held by a mutual friend, Christian Ternus '10 ... hooked on high dynamic range (HDR) photography, so he had been roaming

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  ." Let's start with a quote from Professor Ivanova on the wonderfully blunt ... short films and montages for fun, I can definitely agree that on the job ... class, we've been divided into groups to work on a film project that will

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Welcome to MIT, Class of 2012 Welcome home.

  

  room with my parents standing on either side of me, ready to either ... been outside on a cold, cloudy, rainy day when suddenly, almost without ... celebratory dinner with my family, the pride on my teachers' faces when I showed

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  ). On a quick side note, I've noticed that a lot of people on tours love ... who is planning on visiting MIT, I have gone ahead and taken a picture ... Library takes on a whole new use for students. No longer is it a place to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  here, right now I want to focus on an aspect of diversity I never fully ... . Last Tuesday, on the first day of classes, Jeremy walked into the ... best clothes on the first day of class." Upon hearing this, I instantly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  . Every once in a while you walk by a door with a sign on it and you wonder ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That ... on the same sign, together, you can bet that there's some serious stuff

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  week starts on Monday, December 17. There are two standard responses to a ... . (For more about IAP, see my former entries on IAP 2007 and 2006. So what do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... Studies and then went on to create Untravel Media with three other MIT grads ... engineers are jumping on board heavily-funded projects to make video games

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  -sur-Mer, a small town on the western coast of France, near Nantes, with my lab mates on a retreat in June. I never knew that French people liked the YMCA ... detail here. On the weekends I had a blast experiencing Paris, having

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

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I finally saw a shoulder with a pair of shiny stars on it, I giddily tapped ... was a small statue of a man on horseback. The NCO explained that the

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  photography, and the list goes on with names such as Laplace and Lavoisier ... of Neptune. Arago's telescope is seen on the roof just to the left in ... illuminated the time and date on the meridian, traced on the floor. Right: Salle

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  (happily, the dust has settled quite a bit since then). Mid-May found me on ... sure I'd ever be able to get any work done. I went on a student-led tour ... question" (which I gather is fairly common on their tours): "yep, no doubt we

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007