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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the ... Committees but thought they sounded neat. and, of course: (2) Free food is ... A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  every class i went to during the first week of fall all *checks notes* twelve of them

  

  , but the class is supposedly a lot of work, and I'm more interested in ... I went to a lot of classes in the first week of the fall semester ... is a replacement for Artificial Intelligence, so it would fulfill a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  envision a world in which blackness is not feared and lives are valued. How ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... --miniature stalactites the color of salt--before a rippling turquoise pool in white

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  "]sits on my shoulders[/annotation] is locked in a storage unit in Charlestown ... to SFS[/annotation] about what is included in a financial aid award ... 'm sitting here in a corporate coffee shop chain, typing on my laptop, Cynthia

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Fixing a trapeze! then hanging upside-down on it

  

  psets and played around in it, demonstrating in a general sense the ... how the process went.   I went to a hippie middle school with 75 students in a basement beneath an aerial dance studio. We got to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.

  

  in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to ... There is a car alarm going off somewhere in my neighborhood. The ... 't help much in the long run. I've always been ridiculously independent

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a serious question, and it deserves a longer response. The reality is that ... session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  year will likely be in a course you might not like or care much about ... (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second ... phrased in a different way: If it looks stupid, but it works, it ain

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  't describe the physical appearance of this fish in such a way as to convey how ... of blog is going to be a mix between text and images, in stream ... of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More questions

  

  submissions of art, music, etc, but it is starting to get a little late in the ... question, how much does getting recruited help you in the admissions process ... ) is a four day event which is only for admitted students and their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  We made a website this is a filler post

  

  . For web.lab, which is an IAP class I said I was taking, we made a ... . The way it works is that the first week is a bunch of lectures, starting ... for feedback. Work on the website began in the middle of week 2. A

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  /PhD program yet, but the general plan is in place. So how did this all happen ... is that I made a decision about what I want my life to be like and how ... rough, and can sometimes leave you feeling as if you’re trapped in a sick

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  to ask yourself what your community is, and how you fit in it. When ... there’s a GRT in it with a lot of Canadian pride). The building is very ... or relationships, because in a community, one is not necessarily close

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  The beginning of a new term is always accompanied by a mix of anxiety ... time because I’ve become involved in a lot of activities that are a huge ... only has space for 5 activities! This is not a coincidence… I’ve known so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the past two years. I've been through a lot. Let go of a lot. Grown a lot. I ... quizzes. Sometimes, the information is too much, the pset is too long, the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  : I very much liked how they integrated string instruments into their ... As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in technical terms, a really dope* concert with Macklemore and Ra Ra Riot. *note

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  much as you may think they do.[/annotation]In a strangely comforting way ... stronger, or wander down a road at a rate much slower. People watching is ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  point is, it's funny how if you have major changes in your life, like ... this in part to Rush, in part to a slightly larger-than-usual number of ... ethnicities, none of which has a prominent role in my psyche. I enjoyed or didn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons ... that: (1) your essay is written in a consistent tense (“I sat on a cow ... essay, go to 3.   3 How can you describe your essence in 250 words? 100

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015