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• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  community before our dorm went offline for renovations. naturally, the ... i'm in the class of 2023. this means that i spent only six full months on campus before getting kicked off due to the pandemic. now i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ¿Cómo se dice…? La única cosa que he aprendido en la clase de español.(Blame Google Translator if that…

  

  of the Boston population. A while ago I gave everybody some Boston advice courtesy of Sara Ferry '11. It's time for some more Boston advice ... probably look relatively straightforward as far as pronunciation goes, if you

  • by Snively '11
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  waving parents and sister and dog, you head for the burritos, and you ... nearly empty), after practically inhaling the burrito (for which you did ... with the crazy hair in 7D. (At least you HAVE hair for them to set on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  . Shared. That. Enthusiasm. For. Ina. Garten. It was probably the first time ... . I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... end up leaving MIT, but instead ran this program for a while. Fast

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Bermuda, Jaimaica, oooh I want to take you to… One week of fun in the Dominican Republic

  

  's entry) to the Club Med in Punta Cana and everything was wonderful except for a brief run-in with Hurricane Ernesto on our second to last day. The ... Hola amigos! I just got back yesterday from a week of R&R in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 29, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  answers questions for kids. I particularly like his answer to the last ... was responsible for changing the world so significantly. Think about it ... -Lee, the guy who invented the world wide web. (That sentence alone is pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  For the past few days, I've been walking around with this weird ... and continued on with my life. I avoided social media for the next 24 ... . Togetherness. Gratitude. Today, the MIT community gathered for a Vigil of Hope

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  alive for…That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the ... mind the other day: Poetry is important for the same reason that a ... support for future missions. The goal of my project was to design a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  international students.   MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the ... do the work we do. And for all the fun we try to have on the blogs, we ... focus the conversations on the open threads for admitted, deferred, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  your parents what to expect over the next year. (She's visiting for a ... the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and you guys actually read it. What's up with that?! -fed you. Even in the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  Halloween event of its own. Thanks for all of the great costume suggestions ... from The Matrix. For the record, I was a Matrix fanatic in 8th grade. I’ve seen the movie around seventeen times, and though my passion for the film

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  length equal to the height of Oliver Smoot '62, most commonly used for the ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Unwinding how i destress

  

  destress! Also, this is actually just an excuse for me to talk about the ... creators (mainly gaming content, save for the exception of Michael Reeves) who have been on the YouTube and Twitch train for quite a bit. You might

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Movies Emeritus out with the old, in with the older

  

  Avenue marketing firm, and was taken "on the road" for the better part of a ... MIT in 1934 “for all who might be interested in knowing more about the ... , and I thought I'd share them on the blog as well. MIT: The Motion

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  for everyone to enjoy while, as the name implies, breaking from their ... contents of the periodic table for a quiz. This basically means that everyone ... !) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  next year. So this time of year I am asked all the time for advice on ... . As I recently wrote in an op-ed piece for the higher ed website Inside ... her personal growth and genuine enthusiasm for learning. In the piece I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  ¡Vámonos! An introduction to GRTs and the support system at MIT

  

  -speak for RAs and they are the "grown up" figures in the house. (We ... Residential life is a big part of going to college, and the unique ... of the blogs have illustrated, school is often exciting, but when the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  Gregor, one of the two MIT undergraduate dorms open for those of us living on campus for the summer. In August, I'll move back to French House, but this is where I'll come home to for the next couple of months. MIT during

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  . I'm also a lot busier and, like I said, stressed. Luckily the Lab for ... Lobby 10 during finals. And for the purists out there I'll quickly add ... Just a few hours to go, and I know you're feeling the stress. We

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

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