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• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  day--I was usually home by 3:15 on Mondays, having finished up most of ... DID YOU KNOW? The name of the "avocado" comes from the Spanish "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  a big group of new cheer recruits, but I am just thankful that today ... you, I assume) am spending the day working on applications. Most of the ... always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer plans

  

  tomorrow, it ends. Tomorrow, I get on a plane and fly to Newark, New Jersey ... caught up on all the sleep I missed during term (for some reason, while I'm on campus, I have trouble sleeping more than 8 or 8 and a half hours

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 11, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  be, hanging on to memories of your senior prom and of the countless ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened ... ], But Sooner Or Later I'll Graduate." Of course, new freshmen are to be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  full of personal matters on top of school, not to give in to indifference ... be) be representative of today in history as told by a twenty ... religious ceremonies, different in that the population of the former is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  from my own room in Burton-Conner on my new (to me) laptop and will soon ... ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... to be on the Burton half of the building in a double, but my room had

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... inflation but also applied it to the stack of papers on his desk.] SP.417J ... descent that draws on the overlapping approaches of history, literature

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  advantage of opportunities, and so on. The room was full to capacity; after we ... these kinds of things on the blogs because I don't want people to ... ," finalist in the category of Materials Science, representing the New York City

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  This all took about an hour. Then, we would, depending on the size of the ... south on I-25 (which had been our caretaker thus far) or go a bit out of ... ) we crashed hard. Sunday, July 17 On the morning of the 17th we awoke

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... students. While I could survive on Anna's Taqueria and get all the major food

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Perks Of Life At The ‘Other’ Cambridge [by Mirat Shah '08] Along with ~40 other MIT students, I am studying abroad at…

  

  Course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering). I grew up in New Jersey and ... University as part of the Cambridge-MIT Exchange. I was disappointed to see no coverage of study abroad at MIT in the blogs, so I asked if I could write

  • by Cambridge
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The ... build a digital library so people could have the Library of Congress on ... I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2024!

  

  Center, most of my summer is spent in Framingham, where: I go on my ... undergraduates of any class year. This application will go live on 07/01/2024 and ... Petey had a mighty nine-year run of writing this post, but a king [of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  halfway there musings about currently being an MIT student

  

  three of us on that day. We're so cute!! I missed our dynamic. "we were ... 's a weird experience. I can compartmentalize the last 14-ish months of my life as being 'on-campus and then not,' but passing other students

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... hour, on average). Or perhaps you could argue that it was the culture of ... definition, in a constant state of flux, subtly altered by every new

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Your college application motivation soundtrack for September imagine a movie montage, but for politely asking teachers to say nice things about you

  

  We're big fans of Spotify here on the blogs and have been for awhile ... a high schooler to have on hand in the September period of the ... ,[/annotation] but hopefully that will also help people discover new music too. And, on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  Education) and Wes Harris (Department Head of Aero/Astro) - lit the crowd on ... parts. Enough from me. What do you think of my new NNR banner? How was ... change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes 2.0 what i am/am i doing with my life

  

  .006 Introduction to Algorithms This class focuses on “mathematical modeling of ... Eric Lander, one of the leads on the Human Genome Project, is a lecturer ... more ways than simply discussing the readings of Gandhi on campus. My

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 27, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Campus and Memories low-quality pictures and some memories

  

  tunnels of building 66 had a big influence on my decision to come to MIT. I ... the crosswalk on Mass Ave whereas the end of my day would be lobby 7 ... pictures of Killian on a snowy day for my photography class sophomore fall

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 24, 2021
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  ? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012