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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  dear to civilization. No matter how gingerly, how mildly I tug it open ... -vacuum air. By then, I had hit the road in a rented SUV headed for the woodsy ... cetera. In the past 30 hours, I have: made my bed, eaten two grapefruit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  ? Well, I'm not doing this fabulous topic justice in the least. I brought ... that I read about 100 pages in my Roman History text book, not quite ... get a lot more done over spring break in all my classes. Consequently, I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... through different lenses, or to implement a new feature in Curveship. I ... piece of digital interactive fiction. I ended up choosing to write this in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  . **** Last fall, my friend and I went to the Boston Book Festival (BBF) in ... book. I concentrated, reviewing the sounds and images in my mind so that ... . My favorite author spoke in the same manner that he wrote. I wondered

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Scary Tails and College Essays Three bad puns, two bloggers, one post.

  

  , I would've burned rubber. We peeled out of there like the city ... -cat. ...moving on. Anna: I would like to mention that all of the "rest of the ... keyboard/mouse sharing), Anna and I were debating how to transition from

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 31, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... 't know how other teams are doing, but I think the puzzles this year are ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  post, I'd like to briefly introduce myself, and then talk about how to ... your parents!) as a graduate student. I came from a small city in ... terrified about saying anything for fear I would expose the fact that everyone

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  . I mean, how can you not be cool when your last name is Thiery and you ... interesting. :-) In a nutshell, I'd had trouble getting in touch with the ... 150 in attendance. So I'd booked a room that holds 150+ and figured

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  home, and what falls in between. And yet, while I stress about what I ... would happen? How can we believe that it is occurring? But we are also ... , here you go. I think it represents very well how we are all feeling about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes

  

  and who works in/around the field of interactive fiction. I think it ... Here in America, our vaunted exceptionalism takes many forms, including how we write our dates. The [annotation note="and, of course

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and ... -control to only let the emotional floodgates open a little. I apologize in ... graduating high school and moving into college, I graduated in a lot of other

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  ![/caption] Amber: What was your role(s) in the club last year?  Audrey: I started ... . Amber: I’ve enjoyed the vibe every time I hung out with Arcturus. How ... and 3rd in design, winning $1.5K in prizes. I’m so proud of the team for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21L.011 Are You [film] Experienced?

  

  about Buster Keaton where I had trouble in high school writing about, say ... . I had a hard time selecting my top preferences; I was torn between 24.02, Moral Problems and the Good Life, and 21H.001, How to Stage a Revolution

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... Houston explained how working at startups in high school and his frustration ... companies. She explained in fascinating detail how her lab developed tiny

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  faculty and administration in the cooperative manner I described in “Colors ... advance minority standing at MIT. Keeping this in mind, how could we move ... accordingly, and student feedback was still important. I held “Office hours” in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in ... the other night, I was about to go whitewater rafting in Maine with my ... ! Mitra was all, "oh, let's run 8 miles, Spammy" and I haven't learned how

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

  in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A ... ;QuestBridge" on the cover sheet if you are mailing it in. Q: Where do I send my ... edu. Q: How do I schedule an interview? A: You can find your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  Service Center. In my 'Two Videos' entry from December, I briefly mentioned that I would be going to India over IAP, working with AIM for Seva (a non ... Dubai to Ahmedabad. Half-asleep, I then got in a taxi and drifted in and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  (sophomore fall had me HOSED), I sent in a dance video and a performance video ... would typically permit. I'm so impressed by the committee's passion and ... in the virtual environment and not have a clue how to reach out to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  This one goes out to the parents It's been a while since I've written specifically for you.

  

  Earlier this week, I attended an event in Washington DC where I got ... those who leave comments are applicants, I would love to hear from some of ... consoled me when I didn't get in, celebrated with me when I did, drove me to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2007