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  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  and plagued nightly by the severe lack of central heating, about thirty ... It was the dead of winter in the smoggy capital city of Chile, encircled by the Andes mountains’ snow-capped peaks on one side and the vast

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  the while evaluated by seven institute professors in the back of the ... good-and-evil, right-and-wrong, red-and-black kind of way. So, whenever I get a piece of e-mail that's accidentally been replied-to-all, I say to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Most of You Will Be Deferred Option three

  

  my elementary school parking lot alone. Vienna by Billy Joel was on the ... . Dear Ella,  We have completed our early action review of your ... 't read the rest of the email. I turned the windshield wipers back on. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 6, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  surrounded by the trilling of mountain streams. By far the best hike I went on ... floor up into the foothills of the mountain, surrounded by towering trees ... by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  class of about ten students handpicked by Professor Violetta Ivanova. We ... great idea by trying to explain it too much. "Film can be a way of life ... contest. A lot of dorms have high-end camcorders that can be borrowed by

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  Shower by Cavetown (top 0.01% fan) Kayode: Friend of God by Israel ... : Birds of a Feather by Billie Eilish was the song that appeared most in the ... Oh boy, it's finally here! Everyone's favorite time of the year that

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Family Weekend. When my family arrived, they were greeted by some of the ... sang an a cappella version of "The Fox" by Ylvis. My personal favorite ... , Wherever" performed by the Ohms (Seriously, if any of you Ohms ever read this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  to watch pieces of stellar trash streak across the sunless skies. By ... figure of speech, by the way; I ended up with some excellent macros of the ... editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ingredients to the restaurant, and you didn’t cook any of them yourself. you ... people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  in swim class, our instructor emphasizes the importance of relaxing. "you're in the water and your body tenses up. why? it's because of the ... muscles will help you float. but it doesn't. you've got to let go of the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  same sort of packed, nervous atmosphere that a hackathon has, but with ... checkerboard airplanes. One airplane even had a shining coat of red ... -natured conversations about preferred manufacturing processes, questions about materials

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  winning streak. (at least three tabs of this oops--) tanhai by Faiz Ahmad ... Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot Ulysses. this was just a ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this ... Hasselhoff here. On my daily runs along the Rhein, I pass by a sheep farm. Oh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  the slums of Bangalore and surrounding villages. I was hosted by Shama ... true member of the family. Being hosted by Shama and her wonderful family ... , members of the communities served by our health centers, that their work was

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Sorting Hat of Sorts Where you live may be one of the most important parts of your time here…

  

  't stress that enough. A lot of times, I see students getting charmed by ...   Ahh summer. The fresh air. The copious amounts of free time ... being at school I've lived in many different parts of the housing system

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The End of an Era A no-longer-freshman's reflections on life, the universe, and MIT-specific details

  

  the inky blackness of words on a page because honestly, when we have 198 pages of lecture notes to get through, the last thing we want to concern ourselves with is the existential crisis of some whiteness. But when something

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1 ... everything works, and by showing them how to be kind instead of cruel, and ... On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... a picture for you. Various areas of Building 6's basement are under ... , so keep these in mind. We're almost out of Building 3 as we pass

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  embrace. I didn't dye my hair purple because I felt pressured by all of the ... taught “Don't give in to peer pressure!”--an oversimplification of a ... , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011