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  Hayden Christensen Comes to MIT, Looks Pretty Pictures of the top of Hayden Christensen's head inside!

  

  Tonight LSC hosted a pretty exciting event - a screening of a few ... .) LSC GUY: Hello, and on behalf of LSC, thank you for coming to this free screening of Jumper! Speaking of Jumper, I'm wearing a blue sweater. And now

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  This is the first of my "entries-on-request" - as you probably ... close friends?" I'm sure that some of the incoming frosh reading this ... share a few particular stories, of cases where I remember more

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  province being published in the local newspapers. There is no other way of ... interview-related questions. "One of the requirements of MIT is that I should ... school are swahili and english, neither of which is considered foreign in

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  Wow, I have enough questions this time to do a sort of omnibus like ... you stop reading one of the lines in the middle and neglect to add the baking soda and the second cup of flour, ahem...) and some amount of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  I'll cut to the chase: it's November, which means that a lot of the people stumbling across the blogs are among the tens of thousands of ... to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

    January 23, 5:00 pm Today is the first day of MARC 2024 (the ... this year! MARC is two days of very bright people from MIT (Makers of ... past year. These ideas cover all sorts of different areas – faster

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  me of East Campus, and when she turned on the red lights I noticed the ... . “Guess,” she said. She’s the kind of person who exudes bright optimism and takes any shift in the winds of conversation in stride. Funnily enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [joint post] unsubscribe a post about fortune cookies

  

  cookie content, not pedantic deliberation on the origins of particular ... mailing lists have thousands of people on them, someone inevitably does, and it all sort of cascades from there. CJ: Someone replies, giving advice

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was ... limits of what i thought was possible with present-day technology. in this post i’ll briefly summarize a few of my favorite readings from the class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  kind of works on my phone, and since I have the VPN I can access ... better about being reminded about the inevitable fate of Graduating, a both ... project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  explains his life to me in terms of his calendar schedule, which has ... -hour red blocks, many of which overlap. He talks me through how this week he ... is “one of those”, you might say). He runs through his hangouts at

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!

  

  movie about time travel ever made; it's one of my favorite movies of all ... digress! The point of this paragraph is that I haven't had a lot of time to watch a lot of the movies I've been wanting to see (or haven't had the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  keep my job as an admissions blogger. There are a lot of things that come along with the roll of admissions blogger. We blog (duh), are asked to ... and Christmas cards for admitted prefrosh, scrub spam off of our entries

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it. Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... of time before dinner, which is really fantastic for getting research done. On the other hand, notice how I have six hours of class on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not ... webmaster of http://www.qwantz.com (because of stuff like this already posted on that site). All of a sudden, the hack pictures were all over the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  disproven it. And that my smartphone – its tens of billions of transistors ... modern understanding of quantum mechanics. It's just... none of it... feels ... , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  the pieces scattered behind you

  

  pliers to Boston. In my room, there’s a shelf of books taller than a man, stuffed full of fantasy. My eyes flick to the books I loved, gloss over the ... midlife crises[/caption] Every time you come home you are reminded of how

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 28, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a not-so-cruel summer this one's for the girlies

  

  -thought, over-analyzed, over-felt every moment of it // dyed my hair purple ... //    happiness of celebrating girlhood // celebrating art and uniqueness and strangeness // acknowledging the complexities of motherhood

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last semester), but now I have a brand new batch of internship origami for your ... because of a book I’d found in the school library. It contained a variety of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023