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  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  journey. It is as cold, as they say, as though we were in hell, and a sports ... and brew her a flowery, hot pink tea. 5:55 PM Work is briefly ... How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  thing I must mention is how infinitely cooler it is to visit the East ... concert, I'm so amazed at how talented these groups are and how much hard ... building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Taking the L: Part ✌️ My goal was Heaven anyways.

  

  : Applying Gravity”, and the board is Wicked themed. There’s a poppy field in ... .  This class is known to be a massive time commitment. On top of building ... .086 Numerical Computation for Mechanical Engineers 2.086 is a class that focuses

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  . There is a thing called the Tetris Effect, where you see tetris squares in ... played in 2018. And the reason I did so is because I had a friend. I had ... scoring system is unique. [Kayode doesn’t know how to get perfect clears

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  am super super afraid of bugs, and there is a bug currently in my room ... the financial aid award letter. In June 2019 I wrote a post about how I ... federal mandates regarding some of how the award letter is organized and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  is a nontrivial task especially for a show with as much interwoven ... —it lingered in my mind for days after. How was it possible for a group of ... musicals with conventional story structures have made me cry, too. Is it a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  We All Need A Little Encouragement

  

  From a bottle of Honest Tea, purchased from MIT's Student Center

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  present tense “you've got to let go of the fear”

  

  like the right one. it feels like something much, much older, like a ... 've taken so far, it is swim class that has made me feel the worse about underperforming. sure, half of the people in a class are below median, and i've been

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  is a fear, the fear of coming back to something I once loved, and ... ’d forgotten so much, even if it was just a momentary lapse. Maybe my memory ... . Each endpoint touches two periods, the ones before and after. This is a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  halls) for the weekly Physics department colloquium. The speaker is a guy ... , however, is a HERO; he rolled up the sleeves of his white button-down shirt ... other in more detail. Frank Wilczek is laughing with a theoretical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  mathematics are very much a part of MIT's curriculum and culture, so too are the ... questions and working hard - even though the weekend is normally a chance to ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is ... :  "Success is to be measured not so much by the positions that one has ... ."  The idea is best understood with a metaphor drawn from my favorite sport

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  composers is, in my mind, an abstract idea and not a human being. The idea of ... that I played that piece as a kid. Muscle memory is a magical phenomenon ... : "The mind is its own place and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  summer, the goal is to have a strong data set to back up statements of how ... there, that is. My January looked a little differently. In fact, I’d say ... , clinical research is quicker to application. It involves looking at how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  One It's weird how we do so much that we don't stop and think about ... . Ostensibly, discussion is centered around a topic like "identity" or "community ... . Looking back at my September 2019 schedule, I went to pretty much a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  , how collaborative is MIT? Do most people do psets w/ others[?]" That's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... what i did is fair. i'm just a hs kid and don't know about mit, so maybe

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  'M WRITING A HIT SINGLE." After much deliberating over whether it was more ... benzenes really know how to react Bond lengths are equal, yeah that's a fact ... ] Nitrate... Adding NO2 is so damn great I get a plus charge when I misbehave

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Boston’s 3rd of July It's almost a holiday, but not quite.

  

  surprise was that a lot of people don't realize just how long this song is ... campus much earlier than normal letting me have a little evening-time fun ... that there was a much shorter line to my left so I wandered over and sure

  • by Snively '11
  • July 4, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  electromagnetism and [annotation note="graphene is so cool. basically, it's a novel material that is a 1-atom thick layer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal ... can use. graphene is also a quite sustainable material, so im especially

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Disappointment I know how it feels...

  

   but a small bit of me is very very sad right now and i'm trying to make ... no matter how far you go." and Vidya '12: "you are such a super awesome bamtastic person kiwi - like forrealz" ("kiwi" is a nickname - just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 21, 2011