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  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to ... allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose, and that's why I'd like to devote the few following sentences to help

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  . We were en route to Mathcamp 2004 (which was held in Colby College, ME), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... with knew a grad student from MIT and asked us whether we would like to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  (Hey, I never finished those entries from the summer, so I have to ... thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... and foremost purpose of going to college is to learn, but I'm torn about

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  , and to spread the word (and learn more about Arcturus myself), I’m doing ... Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... bigger and bigger thing these days, and we’re super stoked to be pushing

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  bad about asking my company to spend a lot of money on me, I decided to only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch my seven a.m. flight to DCA, which is one of three airports that serves

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  concepts of damped harmonic motion and centripetal forces, which is to say we ... inspired me to fix my own somewhat broken trapeze, and I'm really happy with how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 1 ...adulting?

  

  's happening right now is...uncomfortable, to say the least. Given the ... to this apartment in Cambridge, I've started to cook more, and I'm loving it. Deciding what I'm going to make in the next week, buying

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  " over and over. If necessary to lighten the mood, finish with one play of ... here and there when it was absolutely necessary to confront something ... clean it is, I'll sit on it if I want to"]sat down on the floor[/annotation]to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  time, checking out of the room, walking the stage to shake hands with ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement ... ’d already said goodbye to friends—MIT has always been special to me because of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to ... relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a few things about the future that you might want to know, now that the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  I'm on the train home to Philadelphia. Currently: four women run my ... looking forward to it. A few things that happened in November: I spent a day giving math problems to seventh-grade girls. A friend from high

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... season with Alex S. '13, who was here to represent Boeing, Irina O. '15 and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  Breathe… If you have submitted your application, go to 1. If you are planning to submit your application, go to 2. If you’re writing your college essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  around the building to document what everyone was up to. One of my favorite things about living in Random Hall is that when I want to be alone, which ... ’t want to be alone, which is also often, I can always find somebody else

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  few days. That's over now, so breathe and allow me to distract you with ... managed to crash the Internet. I don't want to lead with that story though ... , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... ’ve been on campus for just over three weeks, and, according to the Google ... food since arriving. Somehow, I’ve managed not only to scavenge

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  One of my favorite classes this year is CMS.100 -- Introduction to ... worldwide fan communities. The idea is, people tend to think of media as ... means long meetings with production staff to determine the feel and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  exotic to a city girl) his aunt took me to a fashion show, organized by one ... decided to have some fun with it: she got together a bunch of the residents ... and cheered for their friends. My boyfriend's aunt leaned over to fill

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013