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  See You Later

  

  buildings east to the Media Lab, where I will spend a year as a graduate ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I ... freedom to move in new and better ways. I got hooked. I knew the program

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  analytical deliberation not to do something often academic in nature. (2) v.i ... skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT (alternatively "How To GAMIT" or "HoToGAMIT"). Since you're reading blogs of MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  just that good and that it could melt in your mouth like that. I can say ... so many wonderful people in this city. By God’s grace, my sister and I ... ’t think this would have happened if I went to school in another city outside

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  how to draw dotted lines on chalkboards, mit style dotted lines go brrrrr

  

  .999% of the time. But alas, I cannot teach you in person, so here is a how ... A few months ago, I posted about how to clean old whiteboards. Of ... ="aligncenter" width="1000"] from 8.033[/caption] I learned how to make dotted lines

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  in teenage life, and what parents and educators can do to defuse them ... small town in Alabama is one of the top in our state. (I know Alabama isn ... 's overall rank in class, which can be problematic. Experienced admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to be Tim The Beaver anyone can wear the mask.

  

  mask. You can wear the mask. If you didn't know that before, I hope you ... popped up on my phone, I knew I was born for this moment. So for everyone wondering how you know you're meant to be Tim- the answer is, you'll feel it

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 4, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  I was born in the province of Sichuan and speak the Sichuan dialect ... East-Coaster, naturally I have some complaints about the weather. Largely ... work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  of lifetime miles. Fact 3: I’ve been in an awful lot of airports. From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... on many airlines and seen how air travel functions in several countries

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  how I think. How I make sense of the things that are happening in my ... executive order in healthcare reform. I've been writing for as long as I can ... truthfully honest about how sometimes life can collectively suck. I get to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... two amazing dance teams in Shanghai where I learned about how different ... DT, I’m learning dances off YouTube like how I did in the past. I don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  . maybe i can write about how i’ve joined Burton Conner’s Transition Team so ... . focus. can i cram an intensive reflection on how much (or little) i’ve changed in these few months at MIT into these last eight minutes? can i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... Paris' 14th, and how I even got a small stipend, my parents were just as

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... , you can actually figure out what you're supposed to be eating. In this ... would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  characters on this famed seedy strip. In my senior year of high school, I ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour before curfew. Pablo can see this any night of the week. As I said before

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy ... a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I ... Basically, I got hacked. Can I just say I love this school? :)

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  ’m sorry to say that I took a more conventional route, as I stayed in lab ... from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I ... already completed. Procrastination can definitely be justified by that bonus

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventure Time at MIT We went on a hiking and camping adventure!

  

  I've mentioned in prior posts that my hall, Tetazoo, in East Campus is very involved in climbing and hiking and other wonderful adventures ... , and camping in the wilderness. We split into four cars with three

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Preview Of My Summer Project Screenshots of the new admissions site.

  

  So here's a sneak peek at what I've been working on all summer... the new admissions site. I can't wait for this baby to launch! IMAGE #1 ... more to tell, but I have to go play a show at the middle east. Look for

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  is how I deal with my problems. Alan: The MIT Picture Scavenger Hunt ... first night. We were in the east part of campus, so we started with the ... Gregor, because, you know, Alan and I were staying in MacGregor this summer, Alan

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  headings in bold and you can skip around as you see fit. On reward as a ... in my cozy bed. (I'm wondering that a little myself.) I am, somewhat involuntarily, in lab, finishing up a Western blot. I swear, my cells call the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006