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  Really, I don’t feel like thinking of a title right now Now there's a title cop-out you can only use once. Good thing I saved it…

  

  ) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, May 2. 12:02 PM I'm in D-Lab right now (it occurs to me that I ... (I was in a single, which actually really sucked for Orientation), so ... misery for a few minutes. I can't help but think back to the first and only

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... as I can tell is mostly a convenience for organizing judging; plenty of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Loose Ends A chronology of happenings.

  

  morning, I decided I'd go to the middle of nowhere in Maine for brunch. I ... metropolis of Saco in a couple of hours. I really wish I'd taken a picture ... his guest check framed on the wall, no kidding. I paid in two

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... post 25 things about yourself in the comments. HA. I'm enabling your high

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  , for an 11:15am flight. I made it in plenty of time. Got on the plane ... …and woke up an hour later, to find us in the air. Realized that I slept ... . Longest. 7-8 minutes. Ever. I sat with my head against the seat in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... one or the other (I'm not referring to anyone in particular), but dorm

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house ... colleagues are as inspired by your applications as I am. Regardless of how your ... Right now, I'm sitting at home at my dining room table, with a big

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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  about interdisciplinary research in the life sciences. Now, I'm back in ... , I don't care about how much financial aid we'll have to give you ... first in their family to attend college (like I was), more students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... can, in the form of a final design project. 6.UAT - Oral Communication ... , it helps develop so many soft skills that you can use in other class

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Super Top Secret Spy Action Real Life Experience: Building a car in 2.007

  

  next few weeks, I'll be highlighting one of my classes in each entry ... this year's competition in Paris, or I think more realistically in my ... design engineer. I'll try to keep you all in the loop as the semester goes

  • by Bryan
  • February 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  I looked my interviewer in the eye, blinking away sweat from my ... laugh upon the discovery of MIT greek life (but here I am, in a sorority ... my knowledge in general? Should I order coffee or tea? In the end

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  my vlogs, where I can see over the course of the week just how I grow ... 's only fair that I talk about how this school is decaying my mental health ... of work in a regular semester. I am...so sick and tired of being

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the News An NYT article on gifted education.

  

  world" can dawn. For those of you intrigued by the program highlighted in ... Times makes for a great gift. Even in this Age of the Internet, I do enjoy ... , this time a long and insightful article in the Sunday Magazine. Take some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . Ever since then, I have been obsessed. In high school, it was my go ... sleeping in high school because I was always seeing the tetris pieces in my ... ="97282" image3="97288" /] Now that I’m at MIT, I play tetris almost daily. In the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  So I've been in classes here for, as of yesterday, one whole month ... before hand. I'm as scheduled as I possibly can be (which is not a lot ... Development and Printing. So I'm in a class called "Digital and Darkroom

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  like this way is Chinatown,” I say, pointing to the streets in front of ... . You can read Chinese. I can, he says, but only simplified. He explains that in Chinatown, everything’s in traditional Chinese. Talks about how the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  good taste in music and also a beautiful singing voice, which I know ... , you just can't find people who will do that anywhere else. I also ... freshman in Mystery Hunt, and her team happened to finish first. So I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  Giuliano, published in 2007. I first saw Dennis in a pile of four art pieces ... how he banned the last one from attending his funeral. I didn’t know ... girl scowling at the camera in a dress, I figured Dennis at least looked

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  more to go. 12:05 PM – I head back to the maker lab in building E25 to ... fatigue, I have a lot of fun fielding questions and discussing ways in which ... us don't have any background in designing or making things, I'm quite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017