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  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  realized we started reading the MIT blogs when we were still in the thick of ... mostly not talking to anyone outside of class, gave us the reputation of ... , we were both scared and even averse to the idea of our reputation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here ... on the Internet did MIT hide all of its goodies? I'd like to shed light on all of this and so I'll begin with what's on the forefront of

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  . The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not in Kansas anymore A brief look at your third '15 blogger

  

  and left for the States at the ripe young age of 1. From there I enjoyed ... The Wizards of Oz(aka my parent's old friends) had a huge impact on ... 11 years in the beautiful town of Olathe. Now before you say anything

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tour of Town Cambridge: university and city.

  

  too many pictures of the Cambridge as an actual town in this blog. So I ... in Cambridge. Even though it is the middle of winter, you can see the ... was taken in the fall, courtesy of Olay '09, another CME student. For

  • by Cambridge
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  awesome people together. Sure, part of the group is reuniting next week for a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... , intersectionality, and the current state of health services for young people. We

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Benito Mussolini ordered that the Leaning Tower of Pisa ... if you just want the gist of it, it's because MIT is awesome. And because of the MISTI program, also awesome. Hokay, so I took 550 pictures

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... be rotating counterclockwise. By modifying the number of petals ... , variations on the basic flower pattern encompasses a whole family of poi tricks

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... questions and plenty resources on campus to help you figure out the details of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... Chalk of the Day). The gig I'm doing kind of extends that part of student ... wondering how large of a range of places people are coming from to visit the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  . After that, I dedicated all of my time to studying for the 8.02 exam that ... fact, I did extra reading. We read Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, which is bound with Incidents in the Life of a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be ... , that kind of stuff. Towards the end of January they posted that they were

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  many thoughts head full

  

  's a feeling of too much and not enough going on. During the days where I ... of it and the power rests in my hands. On days where I had my 10am 8 ... half of IAP, going to the gym consistently and eating food I got off of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  college, and I agreed. For sake of privacy, though, we agreed that the entry ... 's worth sharing: after all, MIT has one of the best medical systems in the ... compilation of links to some of MIT's many student health resources at the end

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  's calculated using an arbitrary combination of color choices and the amount spent ... the norm, but that's the beauty of it. There is no norm. I've seen ... wondering if writing humorous essays are not a disadvantage since the humor of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our apartment gym has closed again, but I'm hoping to get back into the swing of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  , I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0 ... talking to the potential students. Rule #2.5: Caffeine. Courtesy of Snively

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  spelling. Luckily for the sake of our collective sanity, however the ... into a handful of letters: [annotation note="Office of the First Year ... part of the FPOP actually ended up being learning about rocket propulsion

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title/framing of the episode, which was just posted, is "What Kinds Of Students Does ... , that my to the question of what we look for is the kind of thing you can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022