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  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  cardboard sign. The picture is of him fleeing the scene of the crime. As ... Mobile." The bike looks kinda sloppy, but underneath all the blue is a large oak ... front may or may not be the CEO of Hasbro ;) On a sidenote, we made a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  probably write a post about it, but this is not that post. Instead, this is ... : the micro-internship and the class. But even then, “having time” is a ... of the month, it’s not like I had much opportunity to go out. Also it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  resume, or because you think it "looks good." This is not the time for that ... final shape. By the time an applicant is admitted, easily more than a ... ", so does our admissions committee. The process is long and arduous. It

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  H I C C U P S takeaways from a Bollywood film

  

  interesting turn of events, Naina is hired by her own alma mater to take on the ... that’s the saddest form of failure there is. To retreat and helplessly ... environment, not the flower.” And while I’ve always found value in those words

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 15, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  ; Ultimately, not only did I end up learning how to use the gym, but I got a ... could when I started the class. Improvement is a great motivator! I think the most rewarding part about my PE class is that I found a form of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  stomach is not rumbling, but there’s enough flatness in it to proclaim the ... partially cut through. It’s 1994, Spring, chilly. The wind is silently ... destination. Someone is walking down the pavement, hands probably snuggled in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  [annotation note="why is 'teach' not in the ten hundred most common words ... ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving ... . Building roads with the right parts is how we can use [power over time] to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  interested and his tone is not in the least bit condescending. I smile and say ... . No, this is a fancier event. The handmade cups here cost $68. And I am ... , only a quarter of the math department are women. … I do not get credit

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is our Friday Afternoon Club, or FAC. Every Friday of the ... ? The career fair is tomorrow, so we had to do it on Thursday. Did we all ... . 5PM. Courtyard. The feast inside is waiting. It might be a bit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  alum! Here is the (in?)famous rfong, looking very nonplussed by these ... time - adieu! (adieu is the hipster way of saying goodbye) ... . Yes, that is my Chrome beanie. I, alas, cannot draw.  Despite living

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  realized that sometimes bliss is not meant to last, if only so you can move ... too is Ben (in my humble, completely unbiased opinion) the biggest and ... 've taken this year, this is the one I will treasure most. I think he liked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Art variation on a poem of Elizabeth Bishop

  

  the art of being hosed's not too hard to master though it may look like ... The art of being hosed isn’t hard to master; the tasks (you hope) will teach you something new. To be busy, then, is hardly a disaster

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  that the largest community-operated cell phone network in the world is in ... mit is sunny and then rainy and then sunny again -   two weeks ago i was leaving seattle, thinking about summertime and trying not

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  2.671 is an AMAZING class (that many people dislike, for reasons that ... much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  really. So the moral of the story is: COME VISIT. Discover the various ... ). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a ... wandered all about the MIT campus, past Athena clusters, through the Infinite

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  " is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... secret of room decorating is that if you don't do it all within the first ... placement is everything. All I did in that cozy room was swap the bed and the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  at MIT. But the real challenge is to explain why it heats up ... graduate I.M. Pei, is built in the shape of a 30-60-90 right triangle ... 't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with character information: the white sheets that tell you who your character is ... ;"Boot, Not Summer"—a training session run by the MIT Assassins' Guild

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mini-Guide to CPW KAPOW! GET EXCITED!!!

  

  pillow? A blanket? Is the room going to be steamy or chilly? What not to ... . The excitement of the new Class exploring MIT is extremely contagious ... . Travel light. A carry-on suitcase with a backpack is the max reasonable

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  KeyboardFace™. It you're not sure what KeyboardFace™ is, it's exactly what it ... 's talk about the SAA for a bit. The Student Art Association is one of my ... 's particularly awesome about the SAA is that the things you so there aren't just an

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010