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  happy year of the rabbit featuring the wilg bunnies

  

  Happy Lunar New Year!! My living group, WILG, has pet bunnies, and conveniently, it is the year of the rabbit, so of course we had to incorporate ... not stay on for very long[/caption] [caption id="attachment_84820

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  the MIT website. That question does not reflect well on a sense of ... personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... of your application in to Admissions on time, and if you happen to have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  undergraduate career couldn’t have come fast enough. The last two weeks of term ... vacuum, as I caught up on sleep, enjoyed an end-of-semester dinner with The ... On Sunday night, I sat alone on a bench in South Station holding what

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On ... entry that would exceed the length of The Old Man and the Sea, and so I ... it on, considering that my room heater is consuming as much energy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  family attraction in the country. The MB aquarium reminded me of the New ... call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I spent most of the ride falling victim to a nasty bout of motion sickness

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of ... not having everything laid out in a regimented fashion on a sheet of paper or on a screen. There's a certain peace of mind about thinking that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Sailing Spring Break a trip to Charleston and why the sailing team is awesome

  

  Julia) Because College of Charleston is not currently on spring break, we ... number of boats, and everybody is trying to sail as fast as they can and ... My spring break consisted of some of the things I love most in this

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • April 7, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  instead of what actually makes sense based on my reference picture. This was ... learning new words that are synonyms of those words that I already knew. I ... moments. Many of the magic scenes are breathtaking. Somehow this new show

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  on this website apropos of nothing, we were in fact practicing for a ... and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  was made of. Now fast forward to today and what is on my mind. Today, I ... since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... majority of you who applied did not do so on a whim, but rather because there

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... out-of-class commitments. In my defense, this added up way fast than I ... lies on a plane of your choosing. And then you can turn that into a solid

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk: messy person edition not sponsored

  

  ever see one of those social media #inspo posts featuring an ... ~[/caption] here’s what’s on my desk, from left-to-right, top-to-bottom: my friend Katie Zhao’s new novel, [annotation note = "Katie and I have the same

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 1 Post-decision questions answered.

  

  good chance of finding success the second time around. It all depends on ... about sending in an elaboration on one of the summer activities I listed ... students posting on the blogs and other message boards are just a subset of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  website, and I did not like what I read. There seems to be a lot of writing ... Yesterday was the day that is usually my favorite day of the semester ... favorite day of the semester is actually the day they put up the full

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  of this bluntness is on cigarette packaging. Somehow, even though you ... all time, primarily because I was in New Hampshire this month on a bike ... Free or Die Hard." "Wait, actually, I think that is the name of the new

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  CMU / Parallel Universe i am not a clown

  

  were in the parking lot, neither of them could get any data on their ... based on the size of the track. The buildings in CMU's campus have ... , based on the windows of the adjacent Porter Hall. Buggies can be standard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t ... .006/6.1210 (intro to algorithms) is that it didn't have a lot of hands-on projects ... our sophomore year of high school. we were here for a biology camp in

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Newest Member of Our Family What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh?

  

  What could possibly be more exciting than prefrosh? A NEW KITTEN ... Boston today to help her pick out a little companion for the new semester ... kitten except for little Brittany! Kayla hasn't decided on a name yet

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 17, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Teacher of the Year MIT's notable alumni include amazing teachers.

  

  teachers was recently named New Jersey Teacher of the Year. Here's what the ... State University of New York at Stony Brook where he earned his masters in ... I've discussed a number of famous and notable MIT alums here, but I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2005