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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  -notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to ... writing and the visual arts. But more importantly, we believe that we can tap into the wealth of creative gems embedded in all the scientific

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell He looked the devil in the eye, and said "You're looking well" The

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour ... planning to go to the Nate Silver event the same evening -- but that’s okay

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  Stanford pen because I really liked the campus but staying here over CPW I ... like it here despite the weather. MIT rules!!" -actual '14 testimonial ... happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the i

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  movies related in some form or fashion. It has the potential to be an ... As I've mentioned before, each semester the bloggers all get a ... are Wednesdays with that gap in the middle, but the rest is pretty full

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  a UROP! I never thought I'd be joining the ~85% of the MIT population ... entire week free from classes! Back in high school spring break was in the middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and ... On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... importance (biking for fun, blogging, sleep) but hey, saving the world involves

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs all night, it is this disgruntled bull. Although the 22 other students in the cluster with me may have some idea as well. ...On an almost

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between ... errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about using spell check for that. More often, I see spelling errors in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  off the front page, and the only thing I hate more than getting pushed off the front page is grape-flavored anything (it's not even a flavor, I swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  a single applicant's numbers, to tell you the truth, and I'd be hard ... Hi folks - a comment I received in response to the last entry: I happen to know that girl (bus driver) and it is unbelievable the amount of

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  square dancing without being socially distant; I want the endless free food ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  even this winter break have been so, so busy between the job hunt from ... attempt to not fall off the face of the blogs, here is a list, in no particular order, of things we’ve been up to recently:  Studying for the GRE

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I ... the classes I want to take at MIT, all the people I want to meet some day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!

  

  grad student, submitted this video for the Nanonation Video Contest ... the more common questions: Is there a nanotechnology major at MIT? Not ... opportunities to focus on nanotechnology. The primary majors connected to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? On keyboards in German internet cafes, the y and z keys ... I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... weekend in a charming rooftop cafe overlooking the Mosel River. Anyway

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did. What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  I Am Not As Lame As I Appear I've just been feverishly at work on the new website...

  

  that she'll be able to do the work that I've hired her to do. So everything else has been on the back burner. But I got all of your blog ... Really. I've just been feverishly at work on the new website because

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t stop me now! I am a satellite, I'm out of control.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to the MPAA, the 1995 Mel Gibson classic "Braveheart" is "rated R for brutal medieval warfare." By the time you read this entry, Mitra and I'll probably be in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, preparing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  I applied to be a student partner at several VC firms in the area ... I look at the clock - it's 5 am. I started working at 3 pm. What just happened? No pset, no exam, no looming deadline. I spent the past 14 hours

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016