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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  , there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... weekend here, a whole four days before classes started, I got COVID for the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  store on the first floor of our dorm), which is pretty much the only place ... interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools ... -- he knows, according to his own estimate, 70% of the skiiers on the US

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  . After hours of tweaking CSS and reading nearly every page of the j ... . An inhabitant of East Campus(5W) and an active member of the class of ... , this is the story of that project. [Disclaimer: What follows is going

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  of the whole thing... I was, um, thirsty ;) It's made with coconut milk ... class called the "Nuts and Bolts of Engineering" in case I, y'know, decide ... the rather long list of things I did - rather, watched - instead of

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year ... moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let ... pursue the arts any further. Sure, the admissions website has a whole spiel

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation note="east of Massachusetts Ave., where most of the academic buildings ... started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  first one fell through. I’m the Vice President of Next, and I put so much ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  " because they remind me of the old custom of barnraising, where a whole ... Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  the MIT Admissions homepage. That page will launch soon, and I'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  corresponds to one slice of paper: what you get after you cut up the whole strip. The whole column is the "sum" of all those slices of paper - we ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  student groups doing fun activities. 58% of the admitted Class of 2009 are ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... . Another nice shot of the liquid nitrogen ice cream (aka "CryoFAC"). Cryo

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... from the smell of newly cut grass Tangy, sweet, like a fresh Saturday ... the page.  Still, I wasn’t sure if my poems mattered to anyone other

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  take 2.009 in the fall."][/annotation] The persistent stings of the metal ... in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... realize that the only thing I ate that day was a cup of vanilla greek yogurt

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  Oh, the joys of being in college. Finally, we’re independent! We can ... to my parents, living on your own is the first step on the pathway to ... teenager, I unconsciously start tuning out the ends of all of their sentences

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  finally picked the first 30 seconds of this Frank Zappa piece. Directing has ... happens when you realize you missed a whole dimension to the play? A lot of ... first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  vector originating from each end of the first segment. Connecting these two ... What is a zonotope? Get a sheet of paper and draw some vectors in the ... [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  of us, it was the first time we had a substantial peer group we could ... The little that is completed vanishes from the sight of one who looks ... application, I looked over it some more, I made sure I stapled the darned pages

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  ="attachment_45140" align="aligncenter" width="750"] we spent the first part of our day ... the city, so i've had to rely heavily on the wheels of other entities, both private and publicly funded. here are some of the trips that i have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Every IP address of the form 18.x.x.x belongs to MIT. Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world. There are two parts to this entry. Part the First: Our Students So here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  sourdough start & restart & starter this is and is not a metaphor

  

  first name of disputed etymology, like most Roman first names, but thought ... tricky. For the first week, I was just feeding him the regular flour we ... should be bubbles. And I have bubbles. But after one whole week of no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 19, 2020