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• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  . There are just 2 things I would like to clear up. Number one: New Jersey ... big thought, so get comfortable. The last science fair I went to was in my elementary school's gymnasium in the fourth grade. All I know about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• 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 ... remember for my entire life. Plus, if I can run a marathon in sleet and get a ... , which was open to the page about how to resuscitate hypothermics. Oh, I

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

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  grappling with the fact that i'm leaving this place and my friends in less ... in the morning and look forward to my work--i haven't felt that way for ... how to feed herself--but in general, the dorm activities feel more

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  -poms, and testing how far I could reasonably chuck various mini beaver ... more and more people filed in. At some point, I poked my head out to ... your class all gathered in one place, and I knew this, but it was still

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  for freshman Residence Exploration (REX). In the meantime, I’m including some of the responses below in full (with only minor edits). I hope this ... CPW and can’t imagine yourself in the active community from the i3 video

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Beginnings Roses and Thorns

  

  take in my fall semester and how to get around issues I was having with ... It was a hot, humid Friday afternoon when I touched down in Logan ... crumble in laughter if they could read this), I have tried to condense

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tangential Learning Isn't the point of research to delve into what you don't know?

  

   made Python. (I swear, this will make sense in a few seconds.) Clearly, van ... programming language that I'm now using in my linguistics research. So ... purpose. For my UROP, I'm currently working at the Quantitative Research in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... show how you're doing in real-time. [...] Pentland has analysed nearly 60 ... There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• 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

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  diffraction patterns, I had a vague idea of how to structure (no pun intended ... underlying physics of strained silicon. Overall, I was happy with how this ... figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• 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 / 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