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  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  . Awkward situations in "Shopgirl" arise from Jeremy begging for a goodnight kiss or sitting in silence outside of a movie theater on a date just to ... in the computer industry, comes a whole new level of strangeness

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s All Work Together Easier Said Than Done

  

  decisions in the face of uncertainty. And this is often the case of how major ... new ELL (Engineering Leadership Lab) team in a Diverse Connections ... different teams will cooperate in order to achieve that goal. Why is this

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  professor at a college in Dallas—had a conference in a city far north from our ... years and change as a student, minus the days I slept in and cut lecture ... student. The Infinite is a regular part of my daily routine, the main artery

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  did this mean getting to spend some time in Europe but it also meant a ... change. I'm by no means bored with MIT but you can see how a year across ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  A friend of mine ended up studying lit at a nearby college here in ... like a pretty interesting place (SPOILER: It is.) and I happily obliged ... is belongs to a class of acronymically redudant phrases (or ARP phrases

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  City Strangers a comic

  

  text in the art for accessibility (and because my handwriting is very mediocre): I’m living in New York City this summer. Oh stranger, it’s … a lot ... from the fire escape. We listen to a drag queen read children’s books in

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 25, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  about you guys a lot" is a gross understatement. I'm sure in the coming ... now is to assure you that whatever happens in two days, you are going to ... philosophy, what is absolutely unquestionable is that your applications were in

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly ... thought I'd give some tips on how to avoid simple spelling errors. Most errors I see are not in the essay portion. People are pretty good about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... how convenient a subway system could be. Also, I hate driving, so public ... ’t get off at MIT. I love living in a city, and I love being able to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  project is to compose a movement of a string quartet, and it’s cool because ... opinions about how music “should” sound, you end up spending a large number ... turned out! having other people perform music you wrote is always a very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  digital animation work on his first film. He is working at Pixar, and is a ... bit nervous going in, I thought the film did quite a good job; I enjoyed ... author of Hitchhiker's Guide, spoke at MIT while I was still a student in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  hour? A friend asks me if I’m going to [annotation note="8.01 is ... lives halfway across the country. Every moment we get to talk is a treat ... my meeting is in the Stud, so five minutes is enough time to print and

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Classes Yo-Yo's and Cell Biology...Rock on

  

  How do you go from taking 5 classes a term to only taking 2? You ... using mass-production and assembly methods to produce a product in ... is the first time in my life that I've participated in Lent. For the

  • by Bryan
  • February 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  about a UROP that appeared in yesterday's Boston Globe, New England ... advances in aerodynamic cycling gear. Not bad, considering that Cote, 21, is ... Sports Innovation, whose mission is to involve undergraduates in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  how much I love/hate the current series of events, or praise ... and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal ... secure a holding assignment while your application is reviewed). We will

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... UNESCO). It was also a quiet town that after around seven in the evening is ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Sentimentality a.k.a. Why I'm So Glad I Picked MIT.

  

  very same Walker Memorial in which I have endured many a painful midterm ... desperately to curl up in a hole and wait for time to just pass me by. When Camp ... admissions bloggers, Dave wrote: "MIT is a singularly wonderful place. As Stu

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Term time again

  

  , Chip Quinn, is nuts. In a good way. It's like, somebody threw my General Institute Requirements in a blender and added basic neuroscience - I have to ... quantitative than you'd think (in general, neuroscience is more quantitative than

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2010

  

  students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very similar. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The ... school, but it is a standard practice to consider accepting a waitlist

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 13, 2010