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  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... wonder how many people actually get what I mean by palm :-p). After a two ... going to be co-Editor-in-Chief next year. This journal rocks and so I did

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... finishing the first 200 pages of the book in early February, we sent it out to ... year's yearbook might not actually get done, I can confidently and quite

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  out the weather report in mid-April and this is what I get... I ... the above information was available to me with a simple push of F12. In ... be attempting to run in the Boston Marathon. If you can brave the rain

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Reason to Celebrate My advisor is a genius.

  

  So over in the world of UROP, things were pretty exciting this week. Now here's how the morning started. I'll admit that I don't read the ... people refer to the recipients as a Genius because they are awarded a

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wordle, french toast, and copyright law fun mit storytime

  

  ) and loved it immediately. In Semantle, you are trying to figure out some ... words; however, in Semantle, your guesses are scored by how close they are in meaning to the secret word. Higher scores are closer in meaning, and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... playing every instrument in turn, and the teachers would rate us from 1 to ... to play in the pit orchestra for Assassins, a show performed by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality

  

  . ... Without laws of nature to anchor them, algorithms used in such subjective ... television to broadcasting." In other words, analogies matter. They form the ... in relation to debates over the ability of the Federal Communications

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  toy in the store and bring it to us immediately. She warned us that the ... secret room in the back and found a display copy for us to play with in the meantime. In my old age, I've come to realize that it's really the little

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to ... recommendation form. It is also okay -- common, in fact -- for teachers to write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Commencement Webcast MIT gives me a diploma in T-3 hours...

  

  Well, here it is- the big day. I have to report to the athletics center in about 20 minutes to get ready to line up for the procession into ... get to turn it around, and that's going to be awesome. Maybe in a few

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; is the blogger get together known in all it's syntactically misleading ... in, and many of us are busy looking at our shoes as we walk. So to ... to talk about how to make blog posts, the few guidelines we have about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  get a text that there's pad thai in the 52, and one of our DJ's is ... older sister to me, reflecting on how much we've seen each other grow ... Lawn again, accompanied by instruments to strum and bubble teas to sip

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  I'm just excited to get my very own piece of MIT history in April ... mention those. So I'd just like to get my actual opinion of the ring out ... . =) (The girl sitting in front of me during the Premiere happened to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  . Anyway, after all that excitement, we got to the hotel and checked in. I ... ceremony (and dinner!) to begin. Be back in ~1 hour. Day 1, 9 PM Ok, so ... rather tricky. Try to see how many of these you can answer (without

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  evening, I left New York on an Amtrak to back to Boston. After getting off ... dining hall. I look forward to these dinners each week – the people in my ... being drawn back to the ice. Isabella and I are both amazed by how our

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other ... lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... point in November, one of the upperclassmen in my dorm emailed out to the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  leave. So this is where things start to get strange. Well, we're now at ... hadn't been able to deny such a request all night, so we broke out in a ... The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  the same 24 hours in a day. It's how we choose to spend it that ... and get it done while to "punt" a pset is to not do it or not hand it in ... booing. Some roared in disbelief. Others murmured to their friends. I saw

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  , to chat about our mutual interest in astronomy outreach and how to ... sitting in the kitchen at 6am, one hand writing an equation to show that the ... to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  ’s history helps with your consideration of committing to MIT in the present ... of its peer institutions in accepting women, who also got to work in ... known as "Technology" or simply "Tech." And Tech students knew how to have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017