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  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  topics with an equally wide range of presentation styles, even if blank-white-sans ... "][/video] This is also probably the most terrifying 3 minutes of my life to ... I spent most of September and October doing safety trainings and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  know you don't get two diplomas, although you do get some sort of ... it's a bit of a walk from the lab and because it's kind of expensive ... reservoir of parental TechCash money, and I actually have to pay for all my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... .111 (Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems), so we weren't exactly best buddies. In ... there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  . You can watch these remarks, and the distribution of the diplomas (yes, we hand all the real ones out, and read all the names of everyone ... 7th, the Class of 2019 graduates from MIT. They were admitted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  of a fraternity called Scuola Grande di San Rocco, complete with ... : Ciao, Italy. Because of the snowstorm in the Northeast of the U ... of Boston were cancelled, so after arguing with the American Airlines

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  about the possibility of deferring admission, also known as taking a gap year. In the interests of time, I'm going to reprint an entry (edited ... 's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  the meaning of the highlights in the Fake Bezel: Construction: The ... Premiere! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries, I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  did you miss the EA deadline? why i applied and admissions anxiety

  

  ="University of California"]UC[/annotation] application that was due late November ... Southern California up to that point, in the same suburban city of around 70 ... For all of you that missed the Early Action deadline (November 1st

  • by Victor D. '27
  • November 5, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap Gap years are a good option for some students.

  

  .com/education, but it's been in newspapers and on websites from Kentucky.com to San ... [of deferring admission for a year or two]. While cautioning that a "gap ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  I live on the top floor of a small pile of donuts named Random Hall ... , they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to highlight them last"]this[/annotation] We do a lot of experimental baking and

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  it’s not the same, but it’s still home back at MIT

  

  warned by all of my friends and by all of the informational videos about on-campus living in the fall that there would be a lot of restrictions. Things will ... because it is on the west half of the fourth floor of Next."]wing of Next

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  Wednesday the Eleventh: Instead of growing up with boy bands and ... became friends with a bunch of theatre kids and was thrown into their world as a set designer for my sophomore fall production of The Crucible, and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  children. I hail from sunny San Diego, and have thus never owned a pair of ... terrifyingly untested (and, thus, unpopulated); little clusters of people ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finals away from finals Recharging on the other coast

  

  texts and phone and video calls do carry over some of the California ... and/or exams the last two weeks of classes.   Hardware for my ... to go on the last day of classes, a week early. And after my last class

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • June 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain. Yes, you read that right: rain. For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (Also see Bryan's entry) The first full week of October is always an ... widely seen as Nobel-caliber. So, coming off of that disappointment, I ... principle of metathesis. What is that? Organic substances contain the element

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

  I went to TwitchCon and met so many people!!

  

  Back in October of 2022, I flew from Boston to LA and drove two hours to San Diego to attend TwitchCon 2022. Perhaps to no one's surprise, I'm a huge fan of streamed content and consume a lot of it! Games, IRL

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 3, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  summer 2021

  

  !!!! The Farewell: Billi's family returns to China under the guise of a fake ... interesting having to balance work with being in one of the most beautiful and ... from our house. It was some of the tastiest pho I've ever had. I found

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 5, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  downstairs with two sets of fridges, washing machines—sans [annotation note="the laundry app we used in dorms"]WashLava,[/annotation] the bane of my ... At the beginning of September, I moved into a new house! It's 10

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020