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  Deep Breaths Perhaps wisdom, perhaps not. See for yourself.

  

  of 2007. Happy New Year and Good Luck! ... I've been reading a lot of the comments about the applications that are due on Jan. 1. And while what I'll say now is just my opinion

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ack, finals!

  

  pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell ... Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  fit in so well in any of the above on violin (well, maybe Marching Band ... -term freshman to nth-year grad students) in August on one or more pieces of your ... Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... Boston to New York, which means we had to get on the earliest possible bus ... , headed off into New York to grab food. Thus began probably one of the most

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  begin by telling you my thoughts on this new portal. Lots of schools have ... get to explore MIT on behalf of all of you. I'm new around here and so ... , getting swept up in the energy of a new academic year. But this fall, I am

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  The Namesake Jhumpa Lahiri's novel comes to the Cambridge screen

  

  visited campus again as part of a symposium on Asian Diasporas and New ... -seen adaptation of The Namesake. The film was based on the fantastic novel by ... collection of short stories Interpreter of Maladies. Jhumpa Lahiri is no

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  A quick plug

  

  has pictures of the Harry Potter-esque lightning bolt scar on the Great ... date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups for some of the hacks, since the last time I went to the site. Well done

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  , everything was new, from the campus to the classes to the experience of living ... able to do physical tests on our satellite. I want another year of ... things this fall. I’ll be living on campus in Simmons with a handful of my

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  ) and February of this year. Last semester, on a whim, I decided to ... reflect on personal experiences. But regardless of the differences, we were ... League of Massachusetts, I completed my final Youth Advocate training (a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  down over New House and touched down on Briggs field. We unloaded, and I ... nothing short of incredible, so I jumped at the opportunity. Before I knew it I was 500 feet above Boston catching a glimpse of the Red Sox

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  kind of see through the trees on the left. As for the hand thing… every ... on her front porch catching up and eating a whole tub of honey ... on stops along that line further into the city (“Inbound,” for those of

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  doing the mathematics of people.   *aside on the Arizona tea ... from two very different ways-of-thinking. My dad is a nerdy engineer with ... purposefully how to on my own. I was always very reflective and sought out people

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Another Type of Mens et MANUS There are 20 students in iHouse. We were in 17 countries this summer. Beat that.

  

  the Broad Institute, Co-Chair of Obama's President's Council on Science ... teaching people is how to ask good new questions. It is a tremendous art to ... something going on and articulate clearly what is it that you want to know

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 15, 2009
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  community of students with similar backgrounds to rely on throughout your time ... Interphasers who would go on to become some of my best friends, Carlos and Fabián ... strategies to deal with it early on has been one of the most invaluable

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  from the the "ashes" of Ashdown and create a new vibrant generation and ... at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  on the other side. I sit in the cold, unfeeling halls of New Vassar ... COVID -- after all, the majority of the nicer things about New Vassar are ... the strangely colored hunk of brick on the side of Vassar Street. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  James Grimmelmann of New York Law School. Grimmelmann is flat-out one of ... ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  New Hampshire on my couch in the sun, alternately working on neglected ... This summer I wrote a bloggerGuilt script to help me keep track of posting patterns on the blogs. But when I ran it earlier this morning, I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  Oh my god. I can't stop thinking about all of the people who have been affected by this - this tragedy has been on my mind every waking ... too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005