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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  leisure. We moved the couch to a new corner, but that left its previous ... membership activation), we cut our losses and just had it shipped by freight to ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  the door was shut. While closed doors don't impede the view, it is truly ... , however, was not going to let myself miss anything. The pilot brought it up ... chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  College students do eat real food! ...sometimes. I now present: the culinary adventures of Laura and April.

  

  I may not have alluded to this before, but my roommate, April, is ... thought it would be a good time to finally try some real cooking. April ... reads this. Hi Mom! *grin*) It turns out that April is a really good cook

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... of nature. [It] is nothing else but the will of God producing certain ... personally admit to thinking it was part of some puzzle that would perhaps be

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  've also found that it is really easy to push writing to the back burner if I ... -deprecating way to put it, but I do think it's difficult to pare down all the ways I ... and like, if I had Greg's attitude of "it's hard for me to see how I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  [I know this is WAY overdue, since Ring Delivery was a while ago, but I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to leave it alone without its partner Ring Delivery. And seeing as the Brass

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  sk8 jebby on a skateboard

  

  local sports store. It was supposed to be a prop. I was subscribed to ... mental struggle. Rationally, you know that the board is going to move when ... stationary board, but now I had to balance on a moving board. It took a while

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 29, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  of awkwardness just long enough to email it to the class. (Junot is ... Ysabel de Leon Assistant to Professor Diaz Um, how hot is it to have your ... with Professor Junot Diaz. I was inspired to take it by Nadja '07 and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  with Stu Schmill, our dean of admissions (yes it is going to be as ... 'm starting to feel like a real engineer and it's super. So yeah - putting on ... II There is not much to be said about this class except that

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  that time. It didn’t help that I never had Wi-Fi at my house and had to go places to work online. That being said, it is doable. It is ... application season, and I aim to persuade some of you to handle it differently

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Fighting Indifference MIT and MLK day

  

  continents besides this one. It is difficult, now that I have been handed all ... , so who knows why.) There was a lot of “ooh, that place is hard to get ... right, and there wouldn’t have been any reason to complain about it. I was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese ... much practice I need to do. I spent a good amount of time trying to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  prevent this from happening again? How would you design it? To applicants ... hour (and non-waking hour for that matter - I've been dreaming about it too). It's a feeling of helplessness - other than donating money I don

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  with proof by omission. 3. Proof by vehement assertion: It is useful to ... .042, or in regular-speak: "Mathematics for Computer Science". It. Is. SUPER. Actually, I didn't expect it to be this great at all. Even though I loved

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  guaranteed roommates. I'd also just like to add that while Baker is especially ... people, they were really meant for 2- so it means that the dorm is ... attend CPW, then you'd have to select your choices (there is a lottery in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  words to REM's "It's The End of the World As We Know It", for serious ... since I came to MIT, and it's amazing to see that the students were able ... in the blogs about how important your living group is to your MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One more baby blogger Or blogger baby? I don’t know, is it the same?

  

  seen her brain on the ultrasound, and it is already quite gyrified, so I ... EC! EDIT: Also, Chris wants me to add that the my husband is engaging ... one more to bring you. She doesn’t actually have a name, and she

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  In Transit The people and ideas traversing MIT

  

  the music industry. He encouraged us to disrupt it some more - but ... I got on a bus this morning to go home for Thanksgiving, fully prepared to entrust my productivity to a flaky Wi-Fi connection. Once I got

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 22, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  come to accept my fate; it has been wondrous regardless. The journey is ... will make it happen. I have almost filled all the parts; it is time to ... kinds of people. It is mighty pretty out here, and I’d be a lot happier to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  college admissions, I often get asked about how hard it is for me to read ... folks that it is much more challenging to live in hardship ... had made it to their senior year of high school (when many others do not

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019