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  It Ends My last last day of school

  

  start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever ... me rolling out of bed on a particularly warm Thursday morning in the ... alarm shatters the sweet silence of my 4-hour slumber, but I use ninja

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • May 21, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  park are actually embankments built in 1775 at the command of none other than George Washington. After Lexington and Concord, the pair of battles ... as the military base of the army of a country that didn't even exist

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Always A Toys ‘R Us Kid Poll: Who was your favorite superhero?

  

  Flashback to the days of elementary school: Did anyone else read comic books? Batman was by far my favorite superhero. Poll of the day: 1. Who was yours? 2. What is the ultimate super power? My responses

  • by Bryan
  • June 12, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Public Art Projects An art piece that captures the essence of the title of my blog.

  

  This was today's surprise as I walked down the Infinite. I think the title of this art piece could be "Hitchhiking across the Infinite." What ... for one of the art classes, but I'm not sure.

  • by Bryan
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist

  

  I'm currently out of the office, but back in Cambridge, it has been announced that unfortunately, for the third consecutive year, and despite all ... higher than we had expected. More news on the yield and makeup of the class

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties

  

  Have any of you attended one of the Admitted Students Parties that our MIT alumni have thrown in various cities around the country (and around the world)? If so, how was it? I'd love to hear how it went. Also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  college admissions essay was supposed to present all the best sides of me ... ways of the humblebrag, I was challenged. In addition, I was confronted ... (and still am). In addition, I felt like each of the essays I wrote could

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  event. There was a sold-out showing of Metropolis (1927) that I had the ... ’s Metropolis, then you’ll know that it was one of the first ... ! You may wonder how the showing of a classic silent film could pack an

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... through the form of already begun works. There’s something to be said here ... in what has become a hunkering zombie of virgin words. The other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most people refer to it – “The-one-with-the-guns-instead-of-swords” or “The-one

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  , penciling in notes between the lines, and the two hours of rehearsal fly by ... buildings. Life is looking up. The best part about summer is, of course, that ... school year, I spend a lot of time completing assignments in the evenings

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  ). Sanjoy Mahajan sees a general trend of pragmatism in the United States ... the material can. In his May 19 xTalk “The Art of Insight,” hosted by the MIT Office of Digital Learning, Prof Mahajan used several

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  one of the recipients of the 2006 Hometown Hero awards. The awards are presented annually by the American Red Cross of Dutchess County to honor individuals in the community who have had an uncommon impact on the lives of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2023 For all of the Blogger/Spotify Data Junkies

  

  explains the lack of...anything...in her spotify wrapped. The rest of us ... rather, “pov:indie”) was the top genre among bloggers.  Most of my ... 've listened to a lot of the "Sad Girl Starter Pack" playlist made by spotify

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  about someone of color getting into college because of their race? The ... you were admitted on the basis of your merit. So should you report your ethnicity or not? Of course you should! Despite all the stereotypes and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  for only a short letter. Much occupation before the Committee of the ... . Last night, by special invitation, the Academy met at the house of President Quincy to mark the anniversary of his birthday, on which he entered

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This Entry is About (A) Lady Gaga (B) my MIT ID card (C) all of the above

  

  culminating in the unveiling of a 20”x24” Polaroid portrait of Polaroid ... Gaga”) photographed on the top floor of the MIT museum using a Polaroid camera that more-than-kind-of looks like a droid from The Clone Wars, of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 1, 2010