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  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... (I wrote this entry after spending three months working in Tokyo for ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  . Please let me know how I can help to put it into a perspective that helps ... are a great many more of you that were deferred that admitted. I'm sure ... say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  problems can be in my grasp. 8.022, my love makes me a fool Since I, to you ... with notes in black pen ink As I jot thoughts on how we think and feel How bodies and consciousness are in sync. Course 9, I think I may soon

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  Essay, I wrote about my homestay experience in Japan and how I feel more ... . In my essay, I describe how I came to embrace Japanese culture after a ... hate that I can't understand Malayalam, or feel comfortable in any

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in a name mr. sushi - winner of the first annual name bryan's fish contest!

  

  In a close name contest between Groker and Mr. Sushi, Mr. Sushi edged out Groker in a 8 to 7 win, but remember we're all winners here. Katy, congratulations! I'll be in touch so you can redeem your prize.

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  MIT's study abroad program in Japan. "I've always been interested in ... to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... said. "A scientist using one sample at a time in a petri dish can take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  , and here, among others; I would say that how we think about it is most ... pages 28-35, which describes how —  in the opinion of MIT, Stanford, IBM ... , and composition in this plan because they better reflect how MIT defines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... guide on "How to Do CPW", and I heard it was "amusing" though I was really ... concert. Honestly, freshman year, I wasn't particularly interested in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Born Under Punches The heat goes on, which is nice, but so does classwork.

  

  psets! I have homework in my HASS classes, dude! I assumed that taking two ... . Trust me. 21M.303: Writing in Tonal Forms I -- Write the first 8 bars of ... a "less memorable moment" in the second four bars. Well, I've got the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying in China on MIT’s Budget: a Guest Post by Saul W. ‘14 Saul double-majored in Math and Asian & Asian Diaspora Studies.

  

  this in city squares too. I love it, but it can drive the locals nuts: in ... humanities classes MIT requires. In this case Asia really means China, and I ... ? ----------------------------- Given that I take a lot of photos in China and hate to see them go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... Montreal by bus or train. I'll leave you with a few pictures... (you can see

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  As you hopefully already know, I am a sophomore in Course 20 here at MIT. Because we say everything here in numbers, Course 20 actually means that I am a biological engineering major. Moreover, even though I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  went on a meditation retreat. There are certainly ways I can say it in ... shift to match the student? How can I tell if someone understood me? I ... -learned how to write my name in Thai, and inquired with family. I learned a lot

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... our applications. It's not anything I can explain - you just know when ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So @mitblogs_ebooks exists 'as you might know, i am a full time internet'

  

  actually did. Here's how: First, I wrote a crude but effective scraper in ... line to a text file. Then, I cobbled together a tweet generator in Ruby ... learn. In making @mitblogs_ebooks, I learned a lot, and sometimes the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Choosing Classes: Choice Paralysis [skye from valorant voice] help a girl out would ya!

  

  the semester at around 5 or 6 and in those next two weeks or so I drop what I can't handle / don't think I prioritize as much. This time, I am ... I have some interest in AI but if I fail 6.006 Intro to Algorithms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a few new things is it too late to talk about the spring semester?

  

  Arthur in [annotation note='I didn’t realize quite how unhinged that ... finishing it. Every time I've started it, I've gotten caught up in this ... personal life, and I can't really do that for a whole host of reasons. So, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  . It's not like you can get by without working, I spent many sleepless ... with physics (which I accidentally got a B in, go figure). I think I ... getting C's (and by C's I mean P's) in all of my classes, and I feel that I

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  ? Can I see myself learning from them? Do I want to learn from them? Will I be proud in four years to call myself an alumnus of the school? Don't forget the money factor! Will I / Can I make a difference? If you visited

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  up, down, and out some moments from the last month

  

  moment, though, I try to keep that analysis in the background and cherish ... the most efficient operations I have ever seen; you walk in, they look ... me 'weak' (娇气)"]all in the span of about two minutes.[/annotation] As I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • June 5, 2021