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  love or lust

  

  lingering doubts about going to grad school dissipated. there was a moment ... meetings and sometimes concerts and other events. last night i went to a poetry reading for a class; last weekend i went to the MFA, danced, worked

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  an average of 22 hours per week. Quite a variety (acording to Subject ... been known to tackle 72+ (and maintain a social existence). Additionally ... , letting my semi-consciousness take over to draw me back into a peaceful

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  sort of decide to send in a supplementary essay can i do that via email ... . ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school ... (practice tests - about 710W to 590CR)." Having a great Writing score

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... getaways. I'm also my own best friend; I am a daydreamer. A surefire way to ... -California border. A restless curiosity sheltered by walls of mountains gave birth to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  Random to MacGregor and back. Cory and I shared a single in the highrise ... thumbtacks, bought the summer before I came to MIT, probably during a 2 am trip ... grow into my answer to problem 2-3a of the new 6.046/18.410 (algorithms

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  they're clearly not the same sound. It's important not just to label ... sound. (Put your hand up to your mouth and try saying [t] and [s] a few ... to explain the vowels is to show you a chart, and give examples like

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  awesome it is to build a solar car from scratch, and how we should ... At MIT, no community follows an algorithm, but each one is open to ... limited example of my hall, I will do my best to explain how. On First East

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  mind a second time. for example, people at mit sometimes decide to switch ... realize they made a mistake but feel that it is unacceptable to switch back ... -startups. or, for an example not related to career decisions, people often exit a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  : Bostonians only have a 25 Letter alphabet. No one knows what happened to the ... : Too many to name... Here are a few: Seventh Samurai, Dr. Strangelove ... Married An Ax Murder, Love Jones, Dolomite. If you ever need to settle a bet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  scootered over to Walmart with one goal in mind: acquire a Rubik’s cube. We ... , if only life were always this easy. a love letter to polyhedral ... world were jello and it’s a slog to move through any of it. So, in the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  to an end. It would be great if I left more than bones and a carbon ... "]far-from-comprehensive[/annotation] list.   A handful of murals. In addition to the elephants I ... someone a surcharge to buy him a Diet Coke from Verde's and bring it to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  how to ask such a question.  Third, and perhaps most importantly, I am ... important job is to protect the solar car at all costs. This means being a bit ... , I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  down and worked for a bit while enjoying the food. Good luck to Suzy on taking on this important position.   -One hour and a thousand ... Roberts, a professor at the MIT Sloan School. They had listened to Ed

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  important than ever to look at life from new perspectives, be it the tip of a ... genre. Students write a short reaction to each novel, and one short story ... 's Writing and Humanistic Studies department. Dr. Boiko wanted to tell me about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... years. Also, I prefer to avoid it completely by (1) grocery shopping on a weekly basis and (2) occasionally reverting to a hunter/gatherer lifestyle

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  incredibly lucky to be a part of a production of Richard III by the MIT ... ruffs reciting iambic pentameter at arm's length to a skull. Nothing could ... length. It took me a month to cut down what turns out to be Shakespeare

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  just needed to take a CS class this year and I heard very good things ... a dentist appointment, and catch the 1 bus and run over to 26-100 for ... able to go into a computer science class for the first time and actually

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  If I ever come back on being away from mit

  

  choosing where to go to college. Like many skills, there's a gap between ... college was easier than choosing where to go for college. But only a little ... , then. In software engineering, we have a whole toolkit to make changes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... that the world is a very big place, and in order to change the world, we ... ? Do you know what message that sends to a student like myself entering a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter ... show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023