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  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  worth of rare and pirated software? Not easy to part with. A chainsaw ... without incidence. For the summer I learned to use Octave. Then I finish a ... this and I'll do anything. What was supposed to be a 20 minute grab

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn ... give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... to one school you'll strike up a strong relationship with a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... super desert-y. You do need a car to get around, but some areas are ... . Felt made for me. Felt right. It made me look forward to a hot girl

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... excitement gave way to something else, a restlessness I couldn’t really name. I ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [Live Writing] MARC 2024 A big meeting about small things

  

  , there was a short game where each table tried to build the tallest house ... back to you; but if you throw a very, very small ball against a very ... reasons why it's so great to learn about computers at MIT – because a lot of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  hope springs eternal a warm feeling

  

  ,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to ... people in the hallways. It will be hard for us to recover after such a ... to rage, and in a place where most students are only here for four

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  Yes, I know it's a Sunday, but nonetheless, I went to lab around 2 ... 've learned a little about life - and how to live it: 1. Tell the truth. I ... is so worth it to take a few extra seconds and truly understand what

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate

  

  are many reasons, reasons too complex to discuss in a PhD dissertation ... engineer to appear on such a high-profile tech publication that I can recall ... As many of you know I am a FIRST Robotics nut and Kool-Aid drinking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 23, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  .Information from the UAAP.Information about housing and the housing lottery.A to ... .Feel free to choose something with some personality, if you like!A couple ways ... a few more people joining the MIT Class of 2013 as we do plan to use

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  walked to the other side of main campus to go to a class. The lecture hall ... Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  News for Admitted Students Some next steps for those who received the good news.

  

  MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact information ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... over, you've gotten more work than you know what to do with, and a ... practicals where we have to 1) participate and 2) write up a lab report. Each

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just ... wanted to suck up to a professor, I wouldn't write comments on something

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?

  

  to the rescue. You see, this summer, my sister threw her phone off a ... first one is funner to say. (Funner. It is a word. (Also, nested ... everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  you that life is a marathon, not a sprint, are correct.  One way to ... For most people, sprinting a mile in under 5 minutes is physically impossible.  And yet world-class marathon runners are able to run twenty

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read ... to enter the 6th grade, my mom got a flier for something called the Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  observe and absorb my and your experiences and fun to compile a project that ... WATER WAR! Pick a dorm. Pledge your loyalty to it. Construct weapons ... -American status, but don't want to seem like a braggart? Come write it on our

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! While the science gets done, you can build a neat fort with the Settlers drinking…

  

  . Next fall you might find yourself wanting to be a Randomite (or an ... together and maybe write some new carols. mitBEEF is a club dedicated to ... of Fortress Awesome invite you to their castle for a glorious feast

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  asked me "would you like to be considered for a spot, or have you made a ... saw that I wasn't a good fit for Olin / probably not going to go, and ... they might object to that.) Still looking for a good reason to be

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  schedule here, working a nine-to-five job, and learning a lot--I definitely ... carried away there. Time flies when you're talking to a camera, I guess ... /suggestions/lifehacks/ways-to-not-be-clueless-in-a-kitchen, leave those below in

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014