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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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Feeling Energized Watching the sun rise signals that it's time for bed.
As the semester begins to wind down, it comes time to turn in ... design project for one of my classes, 2.005, where we had to design a floating buoy-like structure to support a 700,000 kilo tower and rotor combo -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome
Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.
the people living in my suite, we were using it to seal off cell ... DID YOU KNOW? John Stamos, better known to millions as Uncle Jesse ... film for numerous uses in the typical laboratory including the typical -
Blog / MIT Life
Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate
'm in no rush to see Pirates 3. And finally, if all else fails: Procrastination Technique #5: SLEEP I can't tell you how nice it is to sleep more ... " has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless -
Blog / Admissions
Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.
are great ways to spend your summers. I just hope you'll take advantage ... This message goes out especially to the juniors... seniors, spread the word to your favorite underclassmen. The three high school summer -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate
comparison, because it was kind of hard to get even those eight wins in ... .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... ask you, kind readers: How do you like to procrastinate? -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway
vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... up, Sam McGee, another judge, who hopes to get students more involved ... mattress parts (springs, foam, and polyester liners) to get people to think -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:
MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you ... , you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... actually visual representations of me while working in a team to attempt to -
Blog / Uncategorized
Random’s 13th happy birthday random hall!
will not be able to experience ever again in my undergraduate life here ... excursion to Lobby 7, stands in a circle, and performs the birthday dirge. I was actually in the middle of giving a tour of Random to a friend when I -
Blog / Admissions
Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime
(and all-around great guy) Paul ’12 to answer your questions. We’ll be ... :00pm EDT, in order to accommodate both coasts (and all the lovely time zones in-between). The page will go live ~30 minutes prior to each webcast -
Blog / MIT Life
8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.
the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... to have less friends. (Especially if your friends come in multiples of 2.5.) 2. It is possible to succeed in life even despite enormous -
Blog / Academics & Research
Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.
In response to a request from a current applicant, I'm proud to ... student gets to know Pappalardo very well over the years- they typically ... to machine with other methods) but I was surprised to find one in the
