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  Views of Campus, the Charles River, and the First Snow with a snowman and a snow dalek

  

  this past Saturday, on the evening of the Old New Year’s Day. The ... the season on the Charles River this past Monday night. The view is of ... on the right. Zooming in reveals a snowman and a snow dalek in front of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 20, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  starting to take on new and exciting coursework, I smile and think of all the ... treasurer   The seniors of New House 4, where I lived for most of ... exchange of ideas and excitement about Ethiopian-Eritrean culture on MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
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  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  dormitory on campus—the Class of 1893 Dormitory—which had opened ... ." Students in the new dorms retaliated with streams of four well-directed fire ... ! It was certainly something new. Generally, when we think of hacking

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
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  Iron Man, MIT ‘87 (?) After 21 last month, another MIT movie.

  

  ; Anthony Stark was born on Long Island, the son of Howard Stark, a wealthy ... of being on MTV." (Thanks!) The film, contrary to the web bios I ... room. Another nice touch is Tony Stark on the cover of MIT's alumni

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2008
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  Burton-Conner’s Renovation: A Saga on friendships that transcend shitty infrastructure

  

  handicap accessibility ramp A new elevator on the Conner side Removal of ... walls of the new BC. People are looking into installing sliding wall ... #1 on the housing lottery, joining a floor with decades of culture, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 6, 2020
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  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a ... seems to me that she is kind of like an anthropologist of new people and ... needlepoint portraits of people’s dogs!  She then goes on to say, “But I’m not

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  If some of you have been reading the blogs for a while, then you may ... on since my sophomore year. I worked to design and build a longer ... , where he went to middle school and where some of my relatives still live

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  To the exclusion of everything else on making decisions, and how i chose mit

  

  new itinerary leaving on Saturday morning, and I had to spend Friday ... of course they came through. I take the T to Kendall, and sitting on ... called The Disenchanted, written by one of the people who worked on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 26, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  into a bit of a problem on Monday night. As I was cutting out the tines ... the hacksaw... somehow, slicing open my pinky as I came down on top of ... doesn't work out very well. As one of the new admissions bloggers, I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Do I have a story for you… *SPOILER* I do

  

  mysterious mention of a "thing I'm working on this term, and it's the biggest ... after graduating and dumping all of it into clumsy stupid words on a page ... First of all, can you believe the blogs are 10 years old? That

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of the Riri Williams Pi Day Video Behind the scenes of an extraordinary three minutes!

  

  all saw posted on Tuesday. For those of you that aren’t Xtreme Nerds ... story of the “trailer” we would have. We based it on the existing Riri introductory comic, and a lot of the fanart that was on tumblr. We’d follow

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 9, 2017
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  demons on depression

  

  . He threatened to kick me out of home if I insisted on being an atheist ... images in one's mind. It turns out the majority of people, when asked to visualize something, kind of see a picture in their head vividly, which can

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 28, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I know you’re bad at something And here's what you should do about it. Hint: NOT "do something else"

  

  came on, the music started, and all thoughts of the audience disappeared ... things that way. It takes a whole new dimension of gut, though, to hold ... section. All eyes are on you, as you lift your instrument to your mouth

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Grey and Other Colors

  

  pleasure of getting to know. Hope it provides some perspective from life on ... moving to a new place, falling in and out of love with SF, trying to stay ... freedom at night. Turns out working with people on the other side of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • April 8, 2016
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  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  again and again and again, for the rest of your life, as you enter new chapters and take on new responsibilities. A distinguished professor in my ... textbooks to brush up on things. One of my friends is mentoring students for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
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  the contours of a wild ride 2.009 😤

  

  fun walking around on giant blocks of foam. [carousel image1 ... basement of N51, cajoling the biggest water-jet on campus into cutting giant ... dream that all of us standing on the stage were wired metaphorically in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice On The Essay The rules are simple: write your own.

  

  to measure the impact of the admissions essay on today's college applicant." The email included a bunch of questions. Seemed harmless ... committee on a human level, i.e. beyond all of the test scores, grades, etc

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  lot of other unique things that happen on this campus during the year ... of my closest friends here on campus. So here are some pictures of the ... . And no, that wasn't a typo in the heading. On most of the main buildings

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Be yourself or create yourself? The biggest question in freshman year.

  

  to “create myself”, even literally. Since “Jenny” is not on any of my ... . That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends ... Great Gatsby, “the Great American Novel”, is a book most of us have to go

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Let’s Go Fly A Kite Up to decision night!

  

  particularly helpful for passing the time on the morning of decision day. Have ... -n-slide. This was taken on one of our better days: What’s that in the corner ... , bribes, and persuasion, I traveled from my bed (on the third of Burton

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 11, 2014