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  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... ? I love it out here. And it's not just about having nice things to look

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paper Planes You ask, I answer

  

  this blog, shoot me an e-mail and I will try to get it answered in a Q ... can go ahead and read your application. Get it? Got it? Good ... interests; SUPER! Kudos to you. However, if it doesn”t relate to your intended

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 18, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Plot Twist And what MIT Architecture has taught me about design and life.

  

  diagrams I can point to. The panel of jurors judging our architecture studio ... it, my mouth had stopped moving. It’s their turn now. I have to admit, I don’t really understand your project. I tried to sum it up again

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  registration, of course, was to find the admissions office. I quickly scanned the ... balloon, I decided it was time to high tail it over to the Meet the Bloggers ... 10 to find out that the Red team had dominated. Well, at least it’s

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  from MIT and the East Coast to start a new chapter. Well, it's July now ... important people, and that's what I want to write about first. It's gonna be ... . Someday I'll figure out what it's like to lay down roots. A lot of these

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  , but we know what it is. It’s very easy to make, but I realize the name can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I’ve come to understand that the Lloyd clan has its own vernacular. For

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  issue for Macs. While it's true that some programs that I used to use on ... can use BootCamp on your Mac to run Windows. Windows Vista, too. Also ... , and 'cheap' prices. On the other side, I can get a Mac with it's super

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks ... rain was annoying, but hey, it's not that far from the Davis station to ... subway lines and a few major roads. "Hmm," I thought. "If I can get to Mass

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  privilege for the advantaged.” For you to receive legacy preference, it means ... it is going to help them get into MIT. So where did this idea come ... .   It is indeed unusual for a school like MIT to have no preference for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s snowing, and “It’s Raining” K-Pop and Prof. Henry Jenkins.

  

  It's snowing here tonight, so when I got home I decided to curl up on ... -like ability to leap through puddles while performing his hit song, "It's Raining"). He wants nothing less than to break down barriers, build cultural

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  give you an idea of what it's like to be an MIT student. There used to be ... own comments like 2 weeks before I got around to doing it. Way to make ... , but I wonder how hard it is to keep a pet at college. Do you have a pet

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  food all of the time it just doesn’t seem to taste as good as it used to ... "Yes I said etc...... Just don't think about it to much (oh and I ... that fact. MIT was simply just a place I happened to live; it was no

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  strange feeling (being graduated, not being sunburned. I'm plenty used to ... IHTFP, which can mean a variety of things to a variety of people, have ... technical setting, but it amazes me to see how the lessons have reached into

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  help? What can we do about corruption? Should we leave it all to markets? Should we leave it to the NGOs? Where is the best place to intervene? How ... believe that the economists might have something useful to say about this

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lambda Tea Two words: BOBA MACHINE

  

  contracting work”), but they didn’t really believe in it enough to follow up on it. Then one day, Robert happened to be in Chinatown and was walking by ... East Campus and ask some of the clubs at MIT to use their boba for

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  definitely get used to this. Hopefully, you feel the same way about the new ... legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... communications industry. We've been proud, and grateful, to call it our home for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  For pi are cubed. There can only be one winner.

  

  last time I used it) but, thanks in part to the Undergraduate Association ... squinted to read "The Word" without my glasses. Also, I don't know if it can ... wonder what that means. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  readers... If you're really worried about it, you can send a letter to ... , the parent can always ask the guidance counselor to include it in the ... Preview PDF (I'm applying online). Is it ok for me to write more and and

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  electricity at home, and as such can only use it for a limited time after school ... found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic ... . Darryl and Marvin '10 are working on a project that uses pedal power to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  2, conductor Yohei Sato took a quick break to let guest conductor ... [by Danbee Kim '09] It's familiar. It's even more familiar when a dark screen flashes the large bulky letters at the same time, or when it

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009