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  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts ... without stopping to look around. Now the memories of these hallways have

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  Dear Applicant to the Class of 2019, The long awaited season of ... most formative (and simply the best) years of your academic path. With ... ’t Procrastinate. Enjoy.You are among the oldest generation of students in your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  -based classes (among others), whose projects span the course of several months ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the ... fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  When Disaster Strikes About how we'll be flexible with applications, and a couple of benefit events.

  

  and Rita and the earthquake in Pakistan still very much on all of our ... front of the student center steps. Over 80,000 people have died and more ... homes and families, but also for the future rehabilitation of earthquake

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  past couple of weeks. As we head into the last couple weeks of the ... /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... remaining until we are seniors. This is scary as I look at the long list of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  much just going nuts. For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall ... do with the force gauge involves measuring the strength of your bicep

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving in England Celebrating a North American holiday in Britain.

  

  .5 months already!" I've been more along the lines of "I can't believe it ... office held a Thanksgiving Dinner for us! All of the MIT students were ... the end of it. The chefs. They don't understand why we like turkey so

  • by Cambridge
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  "]REX[/annotation] as a representative of my Burton Conner community, the Burton Third ... help keep the culture going. normally, the 50-some members of my living ... from all over the dorm. this year, however, the members of the floor are

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... cranny, and of course, friendship and love and community. But!!  The ... one of my work week tasks has been to patch up holes in the basement

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am Treasured :) Graduate school visit #1 (Updated)

  

  , I awaken to the sounds of wheels skidding on the landing strip. Woo ... garden of temporary statues. "Hammer Time." The scene resumes. I ... ," ... At the end of the meal, the waitress asks us, "What is your gift to

  • by Bryan
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked passed the laundry room without noticing. Seriously, the end of term &

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  group of friends who understand me. I'm continuing on with the Design ... Symposium, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the MIT AeroAstro department ... , speaking from the audience during the Q/A session of the astronaut panel on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  beforehand. A lot of the ones around us were kind of stupid, like, "Why don ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now ... define one. The maurer is a unit of awesomeness, equal to the awesomeness

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... labs benefit from the (effectively free) labour of highly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels ... of the murals, meaning if you put your phone up to the murals, an

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  .01), and Humanities(21W.XXX), so I'll take you through a day in the life of ... Hudson, a past 8.01 teacher and one of the best lecturers I've ever met ... material a walk in the park and who took two days out of the week, and a few

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no ... say that he's basically the rock star of biology: central figure in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm ... symptoms of tuberculosis. On the flip side of the burger (to coin a stupid

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Being an Intern (And being an adult)

  

  invisible gravity surrounding the way people treat you--a kind of feeling you ... who have helped me in countless ways, one of whom even took the time to ... as a person. It’s odd to feel suddenly placed in the world of adults

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Got Us iPads! [UNBOXING VIDEO] ft. my cat and my new apple pencil

  

  will tuition be?", and "will we get grades in the fall?".  Many of us had ... the lack of generosity of some other parts of the plan, like financial aid"]Many students were baffled by the generosity of the iPad plan

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 6, 2020