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• Blog / How to Human

  first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship

  

  the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my ... lot of first impressions, both good and bad. here they are: this city ... few pedestrians as well, so walking on the streets is kind of lonely

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 31, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Search of Answers Seeking recommendations, rather than providing them...

  

  When most people learn what kind of work I do, they often speculate ... point out that I am just a single member of an otherwise exceptional group of people who make up the admission staff. It is the collective wisdom

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.

  

  Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class... The MIT Class of 2010, by: Gender: Male 55% Female 45% Ethnicity: African

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... ? Domestic selection (final stages). It's been a long season of Regular Action, but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…

  

  This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... New Hampshire, of course. Now telling you the destination without ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was

  • by Bryan
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... topic of winter coats -- a logical move given that it was fairly chilly ... cold, their thorough line of reasoning being that coats made one less

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot ... , but was made into a red/green image to spite the large number of color blind residents that used to live on Beast. I'm incredibly proud of my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition

  

  (This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  In the CollegeConfidential discussion of my blog post The Difficulty ... basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free ... : One of Petey’s former students came in to give a talk about his work at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... ".   a parody of Animal Planet     This week on MIT Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  swimming in the back of my mind as I scootered across the bridge to my test ... . Puddles of water sprayed up onto my backpack, and I wondered if I would be ... moved onto the written portion of the test, where I assigned

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  So the other day at work, I was sitting at the bottom of one of the water slides. And I was bored out of my mind. There were about 3 people in the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she ... pair of heels on when I was 6. Maybe even younger. I charged into my ... buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  I'm a proud resident of Burton-Conner, a lovely dorm with nine floors of varying cultures. The dorm is being renovated starting next year ... .."][hopefully][/annotation] be moving back in as a senior, the dorm won't be the same. Some of the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  small amount of work done, but a pretty large amount of good memories, so I thought I would share some of the things I did. Who says MIT students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017