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  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).

  

  September 12, 2008 - September 17, 2008 I spent a nice weekend in McAllen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... ended around 10pm, some of us went to Chili's (one of the few places in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if ... about the common theme of games, dolls and playthings in his novel

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... ! - but I didn't go downstairs right away, I was in the middle of something ... 'freaking clock in the morning, and the stuff is nearly all gone ten minutes later

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  So, I'm in the Stratton Reading Room right now and the number of ... class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own ... are given handlebars on the side of the train to hang on to. In the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  And I'm back! I'm determined to make up for not posting at all in the last month by being incredibly prolific in the next. I expect this to ... cool project. In my advising seminar last year (6.070 - it's a great

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked: "Oh, and in later chapters, please include the being alone without ... temporary dorm in Baker House, and I walk into my quad. And now for an

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  every three seconds and ended up with more dead air than anything else in ... ruin the reputation of the entire radio station all in one go. Great. Now ... time slot in the first place?! Didn't they realize what they were about

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... like Tiger on the links in Tucson. I now understand desert rules for golf ... Tucson native inhabitant; the rattlesnake. There I am in the middle of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is It Possible To Respect A Racist Film? We must learn to embrace the opportunities to confront ourselves by confronting others.

  

  with built in Dolby Digital) and watch the latest pay-per-view selection ... . This movie, shot in 1915, has been described as "a legendary classic ... friends in Piedmont, South Carolina: the family Cameron. This friendship is

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • May 8, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  's probably not in your best interest to use the comments to wonder about this ... held, and many varsity sports practice then. MIT competes in Division ... MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  (from the MIT campus newspaper, The Tech. This comic was published in ... class to finish up the PE requirement. We are, in case you are unaware ... worth 2 points; participating in a varsity sport is worth 4 points. (We

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  , and among the halls and entries in those dorms. With such living group ... buildings in this area of campus, but in addition to the many dorms it ... Haus are in the midst of the academic buildings, only a few feet away

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  , I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us from time to time - our door is almost always open. If you're not here in

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... what I expected, probably because I went in with no expectations at all. What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  It’s cold down here, and dark, so I’ll keep this one brief. I'm in ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I ... made oats in the same pan, and was about to do the chicken, too, when I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... "]ESP[/annotation] in which MIT students teach classes for high schoolers on any topic they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  poem of mine I could find in Google Drive. It was my first-ever high ... Shakespearean sonnets, maybe some contemporary pieces from a brief unit in sixth ... always my first love, and after I won a national prize in tenth grade for a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... I called my mother. "Mom," I said, panicking. "There are bugs in our ... cautiously cracked it open again, there were no moths in sight. And that was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  unstructured decompression sequence in my 2019 IAP and loved it. (I also tried to ... direct differences in the types of contributions made by the Microsoft ... "]Vietnamese-Iranian-American,[/annotation] I was really happy when (purely by chance) two out of three in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020