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• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  I used to play Pokemon. I won't lie. One could possibly say that Boston is a living GameBoy game this summer with the Cow Parade. All across ... decided that she wants to catch them all with her camera this summer; I

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2006 Day 1 Campus Preview Weekend has begun! [photos]

  

  : Registration began at 9am with a huge influx of people. It was great to see so many familiar faces! Mitra helps to check in one of the first students to ... brought along their pickle-powered VU meter to show off. 2x4 Jenga! The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  Hi blog readers! It's been a few months since I've graduated, a time filled with road trips, starting to rock climb climbing, hanging with ... figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  walked to his office flashed through my brain. "My dad is there." A third ... hearing that it was so hard to reach my stepmom because everyone was trying ... late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  exciting time to be around MIT, because it is Nobel Prize week. For me, this week is routinely characterized by setting my alarm to wake up super ... compared to a dance in which the couples change partners. Metathesis is used

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do ... many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... struggle to put food on the table everyday, and I thought to myself, "Let

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Over Spring Break A flattering video of MIT Women's Tennis derping around California

  

  For spring break, the women's tennis team travelled to Southern ... of tennis, friends, and bad tanlines: We travel to California every two years, which is doubly as nice for me because my family lives in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  a spelling exam.” “Is that what it was?” “Yes, Mr. Concord, it was ... . Hopefully it was fun to read.  =) ... once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  Here are some FAQs for deferred students... Is it all over for me ... application. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay ... ) would love to have in their student body. Honestly. I hope this is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  When we first decided to coordinate 20th anniversary blog posts, I ... never-ending busy season of reading applications! So it's not like I don't have a lot of other work to do right now. But as I've been chatting with

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  program is extremely inspiring and I hope that it will encourage you all to ... The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  before it spun off to the sea. A cold, dry air mass from Canada blanketed ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities, the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  directly ahead of you. I know many of you find it hard to picture yourselves ... run, college will only be as rewarding as you are prepared to let it be ... sleep, which sort of sucked. It did, however, give me a little bit of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  forty minutes. I videotaped a small, random portion of it. To watch it ... similar to her other stories, but it was still insightful, entertaining, and ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... bioengineering! (...Look how I manage to work in all this random MIT stuff. It ... News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  currently at MIT for Campus Preview Weekend (this post is dedicated to the other 42%!). This is the "before" picture, T-minus 2 hours until the ... , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  wrong. I had learned all the material, and even taught some of it to ... and to learn the material in a way that I'd remember it. They also told ... because the model I had formed in my mind wasn't robust enough to handle it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  dusted, it was time to head back to Cambridge and continue our MIT lives ... academic credit (although it is a very nice bonus); instead, most people are ... It’s finally here – the grand finale of the Fredventure! Read part 1

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  science for 30 years. No no. I'm serious. Well, this is it: the last time I'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to ... said that if anybody could come up with an exact formula and prove it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  offered a slice to Li Brunetto '12, who tasted it and replied, very ... kindergarten when they taught you how to identify vegetables. *This phrase is ... matters is that every Saturday, we sat down to a delightful home-cooked meal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009