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  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of ... kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  sent to a relative wishing them a happy birthday! or a congrats on graduating!, a funny tweet sent to a friend, or a tag on MIT Confessions. On occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  so lucky, but I did write a handful of rhymes for giggles on our bus ... of Iceland[/caption] the wheels on the bus go round and round driving ... traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class soon ... Class of 2009 14% admit rate. We received 10,443 applications and admitted 1495 of those students, making this the most selective year ever in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  I'm back on campus! I just finished my 10-week internship at the New ... about it. I also did good amount of UI/UX and product design for an intern ... embarrassing well-what-do-we-have-here pose in front of a nonsensical slide that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Felines of Fifth West meow meow

  

  the best parts of MIT is the tiny furry people walking around on the ... personalities of the felines on Fifth West of East Campus.    Puru is a ragdoll ... and Puru have this crazy fight where Puru jumped on top of him and they

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... 's life. It was more of a resume-filler, something that would "look good on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  , back to the point of this entry. Every year on 5th East, we repaint Black ... on campus, you should come see in person, instead of relying on the ... leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  other people. Unlike most of those people, though, I live on Conner 4, not ... anything on the walls that would come off easily, took a day off of work (I ... I'm going to paint on top of the "elephant" and "armadillo" - which is

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... of the week. On Wednesday, all BoC hosts showed up to help Ben. The ... on (one of the other volunteers christened me Reggie). I can imagine

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For love of Baxter A story of love, loss, and catnapping on Burton 1, as documented by my cell…

  

  place it on the dining table of the 132 suite at precisely 12:10 AM on ... kidnapped Baxter because he smells funny and no one on the floor likes him. If you ever want to see him again, you must meet all of our demands. The

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…

  

  take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... in the middle of writing a HASS paper on the Hippocratic Oath, so I ... on the Class of 2010 Brass Rat, it's much better than this.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Craziest of Weeks I had one.

  

  blog entry like that. I should work on it. Anyway, I would like to ... years ago my Pi Day was filled with lots of screaming of excited expletives (that I can't post on the blogs) with my dad. I earnestly hope that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... was too expensive to be widely available.   On the other side of ... small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What are the residence halls/housing like?

  More than 70% of our undergrads live on campus, including all first ... where they feel best. Detailed descriptions of the undergraduate residence halls are available on the Housing site.
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  . There were a few giant red flags on the first day. I won't go into all of ... ; later on, I saw that one of the founders departed from the company under ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  .” You may have even uttered a version of it yourself. For me – in high school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go ... Institute of Technology, not the Massachusetts Institute of Totally

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Semester of poetry

  

  letters on a page of this tome I opened that follows me everywhere – will ... enjoying the class and like how it kind of naturally allows me to set time ... an exercise in building up a gradual picture of how people answer

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • November 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC is a group that screens movies on campus) and one of the movies was ... intensive project hence (most of) my absence from the blagosphere. BUT I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  End of May updates More waitlist admits, no ARML, Bollywood in Boston, technical theater at MIT.

  

  students from the waitlist on Friday. I don't know if we'll take more people ... remain on the waitlist.Unfortunately, I have to take back what I said in a previous entry: I am no longer able to make it to the Penn State site of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2006