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• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  , who acted as TDC's team leader for the challenge. In addition to ... If there's one thing MIT students aren't known for having, it's spare time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup ... for a "wildcard" from the Startup Alley to pitch and compete on stage ... classes didn't just stop for me to attend this conference. First, I had to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right ... compelling case for your inclusion among them, please feel free to submit an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Independence Day Fireworks in Boston Hobbits watch beautiful fireworks from comfort of dorm lounge.

  

  enough adventure for the day. I wanted to photograph the Charles River for ...   Yesterday for Independence Day I was a hobbit. Cory R. ‘14 and I went out to the deli to get turkey meat and an exciting new cheese

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Take Only Memories Leave Only Footprints

  

  that by now.) On MIT’s list of 101 things to do before graduation for ... -Year Program students. This is an opportunity for us to tell the staff what we ... years. I joined GEL for the opportunity to develop leadership skills in a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  propitious time for that old data to be put to use. I present Beaver Scope ... I know enough to stay away from trying to describe the different ... . This isn't to say I won't tell you if you ask, but I'll avoid typing it

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist MIT admitted some applicants from the waitlist today.

  

  comments to introduce yourself to the rest of your class. And for those of ... the waitlist. Thanks to some good yield prediction this year, using the waitlist became a reality. We worked all day today as a subcommittee to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  to admit, the resemblance is uncanny. Huge thanks to Phil '07 for the invite to the Synopsys BBQ! We were the wrong age for this event ... to give her addiction to "papas adobadas," a kind of mexican hot Lays

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  heat for as long as I was allowed. Needless to say, it was a good ... Columbus Zoo. I managed to make my annual trip to the zoo last summer, but ... withheld dinner from me until I agreed to go to the movies. Being wily and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  One of the hardest things to avoid at MIT is a sense of jadedness ... in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... to tradition and propriety very much at MIT - the closest thing we have

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  opportunity for you to shoot off questions to helpful strangers. And you can do ... to do with all that power?  I can't answer that question for ... competitions of varying difficulty. It was very easy for me to find problems just

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). As for the admit letter, it is unlikely to be mistaken for anything else. Jane asked, "I always wondered....why is MIT ... While you wait... For those who are curious about envelope sizes: the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Chose To Spend My First Weekend Away From MIT 132 miles north to be exact

  

  to look right back at you in the eye. That's one longwinded way of ... found drive to "look at what's beyond the hamster ball." And so I found ... upperclassmen, you begin to see things with a new perspective and your priorities

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 16, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  !! Ever the perfectionist, I resolved to complete every route for the base ... 're going to discourage yourself from reaching for that next step. When you ... to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  hello, after six years

  

  i find harder to talk about, have changed me and my relationship to writing. this is not possible to stop, how change continues to happen. i think i am learning to accept this. i have learned other things as well

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  . It just meant now, instead of waiting for things to happen to me, I was ... the analogy to freshmen entering college for the first time, and how ... restaurants). A few days after responding to the ad, I went in for an interview

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post ... mostly for me to get information on the role rather than anything on their ... , we use the summer months to start planning for Haunt! The summer months

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  nod with feigned interest.  Later, the boy apologized to me for what ... to stay polite? Was it his fault for asking me a racist question, or ... someone worthy of respect and agency. I wish for all of us to love and be

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  my friends, they pointed out to me that even if that is true for most ... gone wrong. And I had so much moving and growing to make up for ... that I'm not who I used to be. For a while in the middle of MIT, I felt

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022