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  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  his pencil drawing of Jesus. At CPW, I missed my stop and ended up in ... junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best subway system in the world, of course, but I remember riding the Red Line

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  heard next. "We're now receiving reports of an explosion at the Pentagon ... . An image of walking through the Pentagon smiling up at my dad as we ... , sitting quietly and listening to the loop of news. At some point, I remember

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  GEL-ing Gordon Engineering Leadership program, that is

  

  Track teams here at the ‘tute, in which I get to hang out with some of the ... 223,462,346,400 on my SAT. I did not take all 27 levels of the AP ... are). How did I wind up at MIT, you ask? One fateful Saturday morning

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  with my advisor at the beginning of term, he threw down a dusty volume of ... those hours. Good luck with the completion of the semester and your thesis. Have a great day! [Course Administrator] As of right now, I have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... favorite author; I even met her a few years ago at a discussion/book signing ... . Anyway, she gave a talk on Thursday night here at MIT in 10-250, which is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Next steps Relax, guys. I'm still going to be around.

  

  month of August off... sort of. I am not so good at the "do nothing" thing ... school begins September 18. I'll be taking a few classes (at least one of which will be a repeat of a class I took at MIT, yay!) and working part

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  should be at least one electron in one of the orbits, with a squiggly line ... of grass at night, staring into nothingness. They look contemplative ... classroom, watching her teacher at the front of the room draw on the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  group of students at a secluded New England college; it’s filled with ... Vonnegut is my dad’s favorite author, so we have plenty of his books at home ... Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  wanted to move. At around 1 AM, we finally got out of the hot tub, shivered ... I spent spring break in Iceland, mostly in the backseat of a white car on the asphalt roads of Route 1 but also behind a waterfall and atop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  What all started as a blatant rip-off of Kris's post on summer ... Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... started exploding into a bunch of craziness and hoohah) that I had no

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Lament for CPW (Guest Entry) Of lanyards, Capture the Flag, and headwraps.

  

  taking my keys out of my pocket and looking at my recently ... every moment of my life at MIT—that’s just setting myself up to be ... of a pset), the situation isn’t any different. It’s a brand new, red

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of ... . The cheapest hot item is a Cup of Noodles, which is free at MIT if you ... at something in the distance. I join them, curious to see the source of

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  crazy party weekend from 2019 to now

  

  ’m part of the ohms, and we performed for the high schoolers at cpwacc last ... improvement, and because of this they’re one of the communities at mit that i ... about my music knowledge that all happened at the end of high school

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and on stage here at MIT. This is an important goal as many of the ... and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... unforeseen tragedies. Obviously, any of these things can make it hard to apply

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  do the first four miles at the [annotation note="for some definition of ... small falls on the [annotation note="more of a creek at this point ... . Most of my willpower is focused on moving myself forwards, one step at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  Skloot I want to read at least 12 books by the end of the summer ... about it right now, I’d at least say that it’s a kind of spread ... . It’s very relevant, to me at least, because she touches on a lot of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  both, even though they’re capped at 15 [annotation note="the number of ... true. Admissions looks at a lot of different factors. You don’t need to ... most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of ... its end, my level of excitement at the prospect of MIT grew. I felt I ... and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  of the faculty and students at MIT, and you can be a part of it! ... Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008