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  beauty is overrated

  

  compel stirrings like that in other people. I never saw what was powerful ... high school has never hesitated to call me out on my bullshit, and I ... who seem too preoccupied with aesthetic, because aesthetic can get in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  fun in the fall and I’m grateful for the stress relief you provided. The ... numbers in the superscript like they do in those fancy publications, but I can't seem to do that here. I had to settle for these floating stars

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I ... Basically, I got hacked. Can I just say I love this school? :) ... You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fabulous Festivities & Fireworks for the Fourth The annual Boston Pops concert and fireworks show.

  

  : Okay, so I'm not much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right ... river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of Boston is very ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  're coming here in August, right? ^_^ But you're probably all CPW-ed out, so ... , and go form your own opinion instead. How many bands can last in the ... I did many things this weekend during CPW: -met you. As I said at

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my ... hours in rain or shine (or the occasional snowstorm), but I wouldn’t have ... of my life for as long as I can remember. My first team sport was pee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  before I left, I set up a webcam in the office, looking out over Killian ... Times' Hurricane Tracker, which I've embedded in a woefully insufficiently ... I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT is live we're ready for you to begin

  

  seeing some of you when I’m in Florida later this month and I ... Good news!  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application ... silver packet in the mail recently. This is our official MIT Application

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... way to get more mattresses than that. I beg to differ. In a few days ... It's Thursday. On Monday I'm heading back to campus, along with

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  No scissors allowed: OrigaMIT You never know what cool stuff is going on around the Institute.

  

  a room full of people doing origami (turns out I was an hour early ... I am notorious for showing up at the right place at the wrong time. For instance, two weeks ago, I opened the door to room 3-343 expecting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  next step. Keep in mind that the goop that comes out of the blender earlier has more DNA in it than the goop that comes out of the blender later ... line in one of the plastic cups to measure out a very approximate two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... begin a first-year application in our application portal until you have reached out to us via email. Once you have reached out to our Quest
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  Friday to find out who they were going to host and where they were from. I ... MIT.   After CPW, I knew that I was going to MIT. If you can't go to ... that you attend. I'm involved in: Campus Tours - If this is your

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Indie Games The Humble Bundle, an independent video game "pay what you can ... Indie Games celebrates the games you quite often find in the Humble Bundle and it turns out the 2014 venue is MIT!   X-Men 3 and X

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  from Fountainhead or Jugghead. The "Every Important Lesson I Learned in ... same goes with movies. Yes, Cool Hand Luke is steeped in allegory and I ... "undecided" with "I don't know what I want". In other words, undecided means

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... and I did together was paint our door. When we moved in, the door was ... personality in whatever form you choose to.” - Erik P. ‘21   “I LOVE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about Buster Keaton where I had trouble in high school writing about, say, The English Patient. All in all, 21L.011 is turning out to be an awesome ... . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  -seeking, daredevilish, almost-falling-out-of-bed sort of way. I remember vaguely ... and I rolled out of bed and ran 3 miles and ate breakfast and walked to ... carrying about 6 cans of soda in his coat pockets and instead stumbled home

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  thing that the last time they visited was in August.) Anyway, I was in ... from Phi Sigma Kappa's house in Kenmore Square, where I drank free ... the marathon in 2006. I have since learned that Phi Sig is about a mile

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Free Flu Shots Better than free pizza.

  

  in my arm, pulled the needle out of my arm, and gave me a Band-Aid. The ... MIT sucks. About two weeks ago I stayed up until 3 AM baking a cake in ... ;   This semester I will catch none of these lovely bugs, because I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 24, 2011