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  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  coupons attached to one of our refrigerators and an entire system for ... Beantown outings. So you can imagine how big a deal it was for us when the ... school’s build team for robotics). Her focus in the world of computer

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which ... profile. My parents and siblings know all too well that when waiting for ... important day in your memory, at least for a while. The moment before you see

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  understanding this. Yay brains! Yay neurons! You have them to thank for all those things you take for granted – consciousness, your ability to store memories ... neurons for permitting me to learn about... 8.286: The Early Universe Look

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  to some fixed point on Earth, you're all moving - and fast. It's all ... memory. Set a reference frame there for now. What do you see? In one of my ... , "Well, what good was it for?" If you're on the waitlist, you might not

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand ... ’t becoming paralyzed as fast as he wanted them to. So this happened. This is ... the mechanism. And then you take it for granted. Which is lame. To

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  -mate caught my eye. I nodded. He threw a low, fast forehand, which began curving ... way into the lobby, pausing for a moment to catch my breath, a puddle ... upperclassman at a lunchtime barbecue. I apologized to her for not talking much

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  to use a CNC lathe and a CNC mill. For those of you who are ... /plastic/anything that needs to be shaped into a part. A lathe is for radially symmetric features and spins your part really fast, letting you touch it with sharp

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... posted here.  For me, Educational Counselors or ECs are a special group of ... questions you have about why MIT could be a good choice for you. They are

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  die for Pool and Pye” (Ithiel de Sola Pool and Lucian Pye were two high-profile scholars at the Institute’s Center for International ... when MIT decided to “divest as appropriate for those portfolios to

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... even some wild animals. It all sounds really fantastic to me. But for ... them. [Also, for those of you at MIT, the Muslim Student Association is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  only has space for 5 activities! This is not a coincidence… I’ve known so ... for up to 15 activities. I get really miffed when I tell an admissions ... what’s *really* important to me. For example, I was invited to join the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... a time (I think my mom got me Word-A-Day for my senior year as well ... the message. 4. As a last resort, go for the EBE's eyes - you will not

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  website offers free lesson plans for educators. Although anyone can purchase ... link to the CleVR website for you to see what the crowd enjoyed so much. ... and pedagogy together for effective learning. I blogged an overview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  listening to music: looking for new songs/albums, actually listening to them ... . having rediscovered my love for reading, I decided to embark on the ... you offer little more than a two-sentence synopsis. for example

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  from composing for 21m.301 and from arranging for ohms, is that i’m a ... for the sake of complexity or theoretical significance simply doesn’t interest me. for instance, in the case of my ohms arrangement (1:02:00 here

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  this much intensity. For the first time, I feel like my life is sort of ... York City. Fast-forward. It has been three weeks at my new job where I ... the 70s and has been in the finance industry for numerous of years. I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... -specific. If, for example, you lived at Simmons, you could eat breakfast there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  clueless. So thank heavens for Professor Lois, who decided one day while lecturing for 9.12 that he needed to tell us "what you're getting into by ... . (Luckily, that's not a problem for most of us at MIT -- 80% of MIT undergrads

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  Hey all, sorry to be absent for... what has it been by now... three weeks? That's inexcusable for a freshman blogger! So I will have to make ... million possibilities for each minute, and you would go to every single one

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009