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  International students @ MIT (+life updates) Just a hodge-podge of shtuff.

  

  1. Watch this first: <br> 2. Watch this second: <br /> (Not much text today, because that is my cheap way of making you guys watch my videos instead!)

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... 've reached the limits of your productivity. Conclusion: (4) is your only ... of MIT soon, so you might as well pack up your bags and go home now. As

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  major reunion and I've been spending much of the time recently, when I ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing ... were admitted or not by the size of the envelope...the bigger the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... video game which allows players to build constructions out of textured ... zombies game. But that doesn't really answer the question of what Minecraft

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to my home Feel free to chill in here

  

  the last exam was (just kidding, it's not always bad...just...a lot of ... room in the middle, there are always lots of people in our room. In the ... want to live on, the type of room you want to live in, and who you want

  • by Celena C. '12
  • October 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports ... be (of course, I’m not generalizing across airlines – some carriers are ... alternative was to come back early from Taiwan to do it next weekend, but of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  ideal bus for ladies, or if the lack of apostrophe indicates that only ... convince myself of, not for any good reason. I spent a little too much time ... little too long waiting at the station JUST before I had to get off. (Of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  of making weird shapes in Rhino, I decided to use Processing to turn ... of the past ten years (go back and forth with the bracket keys). Mouseover a data point to see the number of undergrads from that state. Now

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  This week in verse There's a song that describes exactly what I'm feeling right now.

  

  Rather than write a real blog entry, I instead urge you to consider the following: An MIT surveyor came upon the gates of Hell, He looked the devil in the eye and said, "You're looking well." The devil looked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges ... of our high school friends when we go home. :( But, this is because ... a UROP! I never thought I'd be joining the ~85% of the MIT population

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  

  , many, many incredible students. For those of you who fall into this

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this ... processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear ... release of admissions decisions. When we know, I promise you we will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  regardless of your major..) 4.292: Special Problems in Architecture Studies ... blocks of class, and many 1.5-hour long blocks of class. And no, my ... , and of course I have APO meetings on Wednesday nights... but that's just

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before ... over the holidays and is busily processing all of the application pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last ... were all sorts of adventures, some of which involved crocodiles!). For now I'll just allow myself one more picture (of our rope pump!) and get

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my ... at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... the Echo Hotel. There was a decent-sized crowd of about 120 students

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  , MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example, building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008