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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  by being a blogger this year, it's that most of the incoming freshman ... ), so comment away. I know this is a lame way to blog all summer. So ask ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  undergrad lounge is my favorite place on campus. By the way, hi! I’m Juliana ... Opportunities Program - a way to do research for pay, credit, or as a volunteer ... breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  be there to help you along the way. Needless to say I had no idea what ... how to use the Hobby Shop’s water jet by creating something for ... seen it all. Perhaps one day you can add another to the list. A quick

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster ... be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter ... deprivation, by the way. I almost got a migraine on the third night. There were ... them equally endearing, and it would It's Chandler be unfair to judge

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  ton of good reasons for choosing MacG, but this was supposed to be one ... . However, this turned out to be a divisive opinion. 2. Analysis of MIT ... -related confessions, ordered by date, with highlights added to mark my personal

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick ... by GTL Italy a couple months later, after I had already decided to take ... interview with some of the French professors. I am so so excited to be taking

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.

  

  Now that CPW has come to a close, the Class of 2013 is starting to come together quickly. The national reply date of May 1 is rapidly ... enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  , that way you won't get screwed by airport exchange rates" plan. So I have ... cheap way to get my last Döner fix for a long, long time. Thankfully, 3 ... them a pale appearance. History has not recorded what happened to these

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Three things I didn’t learn from class behold, the listicle

  

  never thought I would be coming to MIT to chop stuff. But during REX, for ... ="attachment_49457" align="aligncenter" width="600"] it’s supposed to be a tea light ... ’t cut from a corner; there had to be some space behind where the cut began

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  Saskatchewan (that may be redundant, since every city in Saskatchewan by ... to be willing to participate; if you engage yourself in the vibrant ... . MIT people are quick to offer critiques, but they are equally quick to

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  be my last summer at home. This isn't to say I won't be working though ... variety. I'll be building fence, trimming trees up to 20', painting and ... 've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  , for example, the sipb.mit.edu cell, run by the SIPB. This allows SIPB to ... permission is a really fun way to spend a weekend. But I guess I should go ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  It is standard practice to leave MIT as quickly as possible upon ... . See more: The eye of the storm. This christmas, I decided to un-wind by ... (metaphorically). I'm grateful to be part of this eclectic, thoughtful, dazzling

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  popeyes and quickly’s with my mom, who told me to be cautious about ... write a post "about being someone rejected from mit & learning to ... who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  , although we’re cautioned against that as children. It’s important not to be ... , and I go all the way to the top. There’s a lovely view of the evening ... a strange feeling of melancholy grit. Like being determined to keep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  chicks about to get eaten by a petrel until a tiny Adelie penguin runs in ... for being an eighty year old AAAA). Jenny> “Palace/Curse" by The Internet Nora> “Georgia” by Vance Joy. Trying to learn it on guitar. 6

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  of my guitar playing." Sound files will need to be sent in by mail so ... unheeded by the actual office." Additional materials should always be sent to ... possible to really be too honest? How far should I really go into expressing

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly ... drinking it every night because I quickly found that it was a great way to ... sadness by not responding to anyone for a week and playing a LOT of

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers to let your dreams TAKE FLIGHT What does it mean to be an admissions ... . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017