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  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the fall, is one of two Presidential Scholars from New Hampshire and is headed to Washington, D.C., in June to be ... impressed that he's one of two Presidential Scholars in the state, headed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who ... that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... because of the way it is. My Last Two Weeks in Spain, and Thoughts: Doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  much more stable place than the uncertainty that plagued me for most of ... hallmates in the lounges, the ec rush playlist blasting in the courtyard ... enough. four years is a lot of time to change a person; reading my entries

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  there is great value in giving twenty-something-year-olds the right to ... Ξp is what it sounds like: a week dedicated to working on the house.  t ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  pretty much everybody. (I, by the way, still believe in Santa. I just can't find the fireplace in my dorm room to hang stockings on...) My Only ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  those shorts of yours will make you go fast in the water?") The truth is ... the pool). We learned how to incorporate water jetskis as well (in case ... had to "measure" the distances between the stars in the films we

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  not caring as much. I don’t know if it’s the word I would use to ... of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... revolutionary things with the reality that they’re most likely about to go into

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• 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 ... been much more interesting than that in the past week; it's just that I

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

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  " came in handy... after brunch, i biked to [annotation note="the ... the awful thing about having three project classes is that the last ... trimming findings to meet page limits is its own special beast; sometimes, no

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  of. Unfortunately, by far the most common scientific test for silk is ... a fire alarm and have everyone in my dorm freeze to death in the ... , most of the tools would end up damaging the scarves in some way. For

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  science/engineering is one of the most effective ways to help the world! By ... blog posts, it sounds like the most amazing place to be in the world! I ... great for another person. The most important thing is that you go to a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  most popular intersection in the dorm. If my door is closed my room is as ... with what I think is the coolest paint job in the dorm. It belonged to ... eating, set to Clint Mansell’s “Lux Aeterna,” the most ominous music I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test ... in, we will not be able to tell you "the reason" why you were deferred

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answers to some FAQs.

  

  send in extra materials? The only thing we ask that you do is complete ... in materials beyond the Midyear Report is appropriate for you -- all ... most likely to be seen in Admissions Committee. What about new test

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and ... interested in adding a few new winter sports to the mix, and the one I've had my eye on the most is ice climbing. If you want the technical

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  i think it is the most probable one, but rather because it relates to ... , have told me that it is common to hear locals in their area compare the ... , specifically in the nob hill district near downtown. i didn’t know much about sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  , houseplants, is the one album of a song in this list that I will listen to ... made the subtitle "i promise this post is mostly in english" but then I ... most is fun. – At Least I'm Not As Sad (As I Used to Be), which is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... a tough time finding the place where we were supposed to park, mostly ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  that darken whenever a television is in view. The second is low- power RF ... ." Celebrity is fundamentally heroic; even our most tragic celebrity narratives (#winning) still construct the archetypes we pattern ourselves after. This is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  -acknowledged among Sensible People to be the most awesome objects in the universe ... window is looking at hydrogen regions in the galaxy (actually, he just ... the end of something makes it awesome) and Arlo to my left is making

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012