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  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  /01/2025 22:01 we had to wait until around 8:40p for one of the exoplanet ... plan for each of your targets with details of how you want it to be ... , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  Class of 2012 and would like to request a one-year (or sometimes two ... Class of 2011 deferred to spend a year in Israel, others to do intensive ... lot of us in admissions are talking about ways to get students to just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  members of the class of 09, preparing to leave thier respective wombs, ye be ... weeks ago, and decided to see how big of a fire he and his step ... friend of mine, Cathie (UGA) '07, invited me to a free concert with Garbage

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my ... “beautiful” would be to erase all of the nuances of what we’ve built over the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to ... all the choices you have to make when starting your first year of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  one of the top Victorian literature faculties around. I was surprised to ... important than ever to look at life from new perspectives, be it the tip of a ... Trivia: What is the name of MIT's literary magazine, and which MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Beginning Sunday until the end of October, my Admissions colleagues and I will go forth…

  

  to tell you tales of MIT. This year, the first meetings are in ... meetings and also inviting them to RSVP. If you received one of these letters ... helpful? What hasn't been helpful at all? And for those of you planning to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home ... there and you do what you need to in the course of your daily routine. A

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  take care of the boy from story who was put in water as a baby i am back to talk about moving the body again

  

  to think about something important: the type and form of the foot. now ... first and roll over to the front of the foot. this is still true (for most ... should wait for the rest of the foot to hit the ground before moving the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  him explaining the profundity of anaphase in mitosis. I listened to ... himself, pretended to be a spindle apparatus, and sorted a series of ... frantically tried to explain it to us in the remaining minutes of class (good

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... edge of what is survivable? Do we plant our cacti where there used to be ... but now I am aware of the sameness of everywhere, the unique beauty of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... live within a few minutes walk of each other, ever again. we went to the ... more. some of these people i call best friends. i'm not ready to say

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Fam Takes the MFA Photodump of semi-artsy pictures ahead

  

  the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for us. It happened to be somewhat early ... . We also all found the sight of brush strokes to be oddly satisfying ... depicted with brush strokes prompted me to take a picture of this. This

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  are to build awareness and support of disobedience-robust work being ... concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in positions of power would have preferred to keep under wraps. Both faced

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  a loading dock nearby. I’ve had the good fortune of never having to ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  sketchbooks and paints behind and to dive headlong into four years of SCIENCE ... AM. Since I have the worst luck in the world, I had a serious case of ... sounds like. Clearly MIT is refusing to let me graduate without a few last

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  have to sacrifice a couple of your weekend plans. It's entirely feasible ... explore any part of MIT you want to: the dorms, the classes, the clubs, the ... student groups and that all of them are diverse. It's not too hard to find

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... UROPs), to enjoy the multitude of craziness that goes on on campus (see ... under a rock in a barren desert devoid of Internet connection). I went to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  courseload. This puts them in position to finish all of the requirements for ... program because it offers a way to cap off a lot of theoretical learning ... nitty gritty of discipline, lesson planning, and how to get students

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  different ways. It's kind of a fun place, unless you happen to be under the ... with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of ... those of you just tuning in.) You think you deal with rude customers at

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006