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  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  I've been feeling guilty with these questions piling up so close to ... ), Leon, Niyatee, Sarah, and everyone else for doing a little pinch-hitting for me in the comments... ------------------------------------- Vinayak

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  work-life balance (without a life)

  

  for high school students i'm teaching for, a party i'm attending. there ... everything, i'd end up doing nothing. in practice, i enjoyed having lots to do ... work too late to do anything. on weekends, when we do meet up, i have to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  ’m here to stay. To save up for food and gain experience, I tutored local ... spectacle. So what can I do in this home for the last five days? How do movies make it so easy to fold up a life and sew up a problem? Quickly and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  . This giant leopard moth is warming up its wings for takeoff ... Mathematics. Hi! Most children grow up thinking bugs are cool; I never stopped ... happily forgot about insects for four years in a wealth of friends, classes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  remember while at MIT. For those of you who are incoming freshmen, I invite you to read some of these pointers. They'll set you up well for your ... , maybe I'd end up liking chemical engineering. And that's what decided it for me

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  his ways. A marked up syllabus for 5.60/7.10/20.111, thermodynamics ... . We had lost contact for about a decade and by complete coincidence both wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  advantage of this today and fueled up for my last day of studying with ... took a study break and went for a walk! nice weather, viewed from the Harvard Bridge A few dorms (especially the cook-for-yourself ones

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  time, and am leaving this post up because I still think the critique ... intended to "tap into the demand for an elite American education from the ... 's online format will provide an elite electronic education for those huddled

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  choose your courses for frosh year =p) Again, this is only my ... in the head. :) 2. Chem fall, bio spring. This year, I went for ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  the edge of the unknown for me, personally. The path of the train up to ... pile up out West, however. Two trains have been stuck waiting for ... up to, what was happening around the train, what I was feeling, and a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  any. i talk to all my friends, i try to come up with reasons for and ... same kind of made-up reasons about it being better for me, about how it ... blog posts. blogging right now feels to me like a sponge—it soaks up

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes me feel like my brain has broken and turned into soft food for babies ... studying-people that might be hard for you to find if I did not say them. You

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  about frozen. this was to set up the stage for when, in late september ... love email. leading up to mit you get a handful of emails about ... chat for emails. as the name suggests, it's a list of emails that an

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead ... setting up a stall about a women’s biker club. Security folk were roping off ... of Madhouse Motors[/caption] They were still setting up, so I parked

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  , and watch number grow up. These overlap a lot with idle games, though ... two in the game. You can play this for over a month and still have ... 's worth playing just for the story. Rather short; you can finish in one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  students had been putting in to plan, rehearse, or prepare for these ... -streams to display the work they had put in up to that point. We want to talk ... behind this production, asked us if we could do the set design for this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  Shuli Approved TM Playlist for this blog post: Taylor Swift's Lover ... semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... song went We could leave the Christmas lights up 'til January This is

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Events

  MIT is in Boston!!!!111!!!1! It's something to be excited about!!!!!

  

  clubs participate in. For example, MIT Chinese Students Club annually ... ’ Association (WASA). Some MIT EESA and MIT ASA members, looking sharp for the ... Oberon Theater near Harvard Square for an event with The Story Collider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  up my whole life plan and going for a Ph. D. literature, like the woman ... Gucci to task for suing Dapper Dan out of business and then snatching up ... we were born on. I am an advocate for the people who are the most

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  $370,000 for our new shirts, even getting some cool press. I did end up ... ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... specifically, what fascinated me about MIT. So, I came to MIT in April 2007 for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012