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• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... joking around and whatnot, and I’m all “hey, wouldn’t it be awesome to make ... to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  . I finally know why some people want to be teachers so badly; it ... manufactured by Merck. The lady seemed eager for all of us to apply to Merck as ... where we were from! Haha, just kidding. It’d be neat to work at Merck – so

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  triangular pizza server to interrogate how large I wanted it to be. I kept ... —spiked by hand-carved spires rising to industrial heights, topped by life ... -like quality to it, cloudy and sharp and glinting in the sun. Shouldered by

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A Part II Why the Media Lab is cool. Bonus: A great "You Know You Go to MIT…

  

  a super-interactive way. The idea is to provide a kit with the Cricket ... ) Project aims to develop a $100 laptop that can be marketed to education ... fact: It can be hard to develop connectivity since the developing world

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... 't noticed the time go by, which isn't entirely true: I guess what I mean to ... , we created LEGOLANCE, PRINCE OF MIRKWOOD by attaching a Lego lance to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Think About This and maybe it will help you.

  

  to decisions, can be answered by two things: having a little zen, and a ... by the past, or constrained by some percentage. There is no way to know ... tries to do it by using words like, "utility." How many units of utility

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • March 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  School in the fall. Summers 9-11: Sports camp, run by my school (oh, to be ... anyone. And by "anyone" I mean "me and the people I went to camp there with ... actually going to the country and being forced to speak the language in order

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  four weeks in the life a google calendar time capsule

  

  because of the pandemic) are a great way to spend dedicated time thinking ... culture. To be clear, I am busy doing things right now. They include ... work: There’s a lot of emails to be sent and things to be coordinated

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  be pretty rough for me. To take the classes I wanted, I sort of had to ... me was like, even if it’s hard, I would be able to make it if I work through it. Right? If I really wanted to do this major, it should be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  air - would anyone be convinced if we said it was due to a severe lack ... subjected to two hours of torture from us, and the following backlash would be so immense that we'd be known as those two frosh who somehow managed to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  Just a quick note - after this morning's build, you should now see ... 'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial-aid-specific questions and unfortunately I'm not equipped to answer them - please send them

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview deadline?

  their application by November 1 for Early Action or January 6 for Regular Action. After you submit your application, you may be contacted by an ... email address you provided on your application to contact you, so please
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  tradition over time. If a hall wants to be known for something, it can be ... 're friendly, accepting people, and our location can't be beat. We're so close to class that many of us roll out of bed five minutes before we need to be in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  to be held in a wiser person’s arms, safe in the knowledge that ... . iv. Time is a train making infinite loops and there is only one way to ... times but we never finish it.  I used to be a very decisive person

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best of Times summer at the NYTimes

  

  side project, culminating in a presentation that caused me to stand in an ... . Everyone was incredibly friendly, an expert in their field (be it marketing or puzzles), and very quick and witty. The only people in suits were

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 14, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath ... a point. I couldn't place his style, really. Bebop erraticism to be ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  about professors you're close to is that they make you call them by their ... 'm close with have been more than willing to be mentors to me. Plus, Carlos ... People often seem to think that going to an elite school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  the way people gather in the courtyard to build a giant fort, three ... the food, fresh off the vine because there’s no way to store it, or saw ... read the old blogs, the ones before my time (even those written by people

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  To set the mood: i'm so tired... by lauv & troye sivan   ... the semester already. I envisioned my final semester to be ~ c h i l l ~ but it didn't start out that way. I spent the first few weeks trying to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019