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  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  It’s been two weeks since I’ve been on campus. Two weeks since I left ... I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I’m studying poetry to be a better engineer, and this is why

  

  ^Earthrise, 1968. This semester, I’ve read over 160 poems, spent 30 ... dozen verses. I’ve pored over meter and rhythm, imagery and enjambments ... powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse.” I’m not going to make

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT and the SAA HOORAY FOR ACRONYMS

  

  hard kicks in the face. (Remind me to tell you about how I failed my swim ... means and how to change it if necessary. Wait, am I talking about brains ... I woke up at 8 this morning after passing out on my computer around 4

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Boris Alexeev: Solving Graph Theory Problems Boris Alexeev spent five months working on a math UROP with Prof. Daniel Kleitman.

  

  I met sophomores Boris Alexeev and Shaye Storm three years ago at a ... judges and the general public, and I had the privilege of being assigned to ... ten-year olds (and even staring at the pretty graphs on his poster), I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  stress for you or your advocates. How can I check that you have the ... latter of these changes is always accompanied by questions, so I wanted to ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  how to answer this one. I'm thankful ... [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  DEALicious in which i counsel an FPOP and come out with free candy. also how to…

  

  First things first -- I took a weekend trip back to New York and ... dollar investment ever. Coming back to campus last Monday, I jumped ... each other -- like how one DEALer started his own brand of unjunked candy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 27, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation

  

  % participation in donating. Sadly, I don't think our theme is as incredibly awesome ... ,000 toward our class project, but just how much he will give depends entirely ... donor. Below is the "grading scale" for how well our class will do on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... -related insights and expectations I had collected during my first few days at MIT. I did not know much at the time. I was absolutely terrified of what the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Screw Up Your Username It's time to put down your AOL screen name.

  

  make: choosing your MIT username. You may not appreciate yet how big ... ), I've prepared the following list of guidelines: Your username must ... of your username! Just not flipfrog. I already got that one.

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 30, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  , not new: as I blogged last year in the wake of Hurricane Michael ... they are all interrelated. More on that in a minute. I am writing this ... (and all other) difficult time. I want to elaborate my point above

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  It's a pretty slow week. Classes ended yesterday, I'll be studying ... week of rain. :- But... I bet by now, all you '10 folks have your Athena accounts. Any obscure questions about how to use certain things? Here are

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  pearl-white private yachts and Coast Guard patrol ships as I slowly ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... visage. I duct taped a garbage bag around the hole because I didn't want my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out There kicking off spring break with some Chinese food, some anime, and some media studies

  

  times by people saying how pretty her hair was. I was thankfully in a less ... grapple with topics like how advertising is changing in the 21st century (two words: big data), how fan culture and fan production works for no

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 22, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  By Pamela Ban ('12?) I had eagerly awaited CPW, and it was heaven ... in the bible and there was something going on at that moment. I stayed ... on the tennis team (nice matching job!). I was interested in finding

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... Okay, so tonight we were at Allison's house and I didn't take any pictures but I'll steal some later from Allison's xanga. Stealing is wrong

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?

  

  Sustainable, and Best Craftsmanship. I figured I would feature the outfits ... When people ask me what I do, the easy answer is that I'm an ... special tools beyond reading, writing, and making decisions, i.e. basic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  about last semester, but I didn't have the time. I think it would be kinda ... Winter break is finally over and I'm back at MIT. As much as most ... , maybe I just miss the freedom that comes with being away from home, but I

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  . Since I could probably talk for far too long about how great Seattle is ... I'm spending the summer in Seattle, interning at Amazon, and I've decided I'm in love with this place. A few thoughts about Seattle after my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012