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  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  . (Briefly.) 7:46 - Discussing prose - how the reader and the writer, in a sense, collaborate with each other, in the sense that a novel is only ... 's giving was even featured on the MIT homepage for today, which is how you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  , writing a humorous essay in and of itself is not bad. If that's how you feel ... that's what I want to study and later do in life. Is there a majore for it? Minor? Any courses in nanotechnology? I don't think there is a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I ... [annotation note="Independent Activities Period is a four week period in January ... , and is topped with a fried egg and bibimbap sauce. Ours was much more

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  College The path to self-discovery is lined with my blog entries.

  

  could take a plane to 77 Massachusetts Avenue in August and call myself a ... sentence out of a book report that I wrote about Death of a Salesman in 10th ... , a free car, and the right to name a state park after themselves. Some

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  ’s coming. In its own way, MIT is a conundrum. You can’t always tell how ... is that I can feel how much I’ve grown since then. You wouldn’t believe ... awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  in Kendall Square (a little more expensive and not much better than the ... DID YOU KNOW? The Natural History Museum in London has a giant squid on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave ... forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is ... /Writing Experience We are looking for people who can communicate in a compelling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  idea where a student is at in their coming out process (and this may ... A few weeks ago, I took some much needed vacation time to attend ... Stonewall Riots – a momentous occasion in US history that many argue sparked

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An OME Welcome to the Institute I took Tsegball, and I have no regrets.

  

  last carefree summer in Cape Coma. After a week of I-95 mayhem, I walked ... are like me in that sense. It is intimidating coming into this place not ... (which is amazing by the way). Anyway, the program itself is a two

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to train your sticking-together rock I am so happy that "computer" is not a no-no word today

  

  of two parts: a big ball in the middle and many much smaller balls ... to each other. Remember how each rock has a force that points in one ... ! How does a computer work? I like to think of a computer as a big house

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major ... this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask.In ... makes up ~7% of the class each year. Is that a lot? That's hard to say

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  , especially at my level, is probably not a realistic goal to set in the first ... just sat there and shook my head in silence. “No? What about a publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... . So, in a way, there’s more of them in me than me. And that is both ... fiction from him! How exciting is it to learn writing from a favorite author

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  with AP credits in Biology, Physics, and Calculus. This is by no means the norm. Keep in mind that first semester freshman year is on pass/ no ... participating in a pre-orientation program. I did the Freshman Leadership Program

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  mmmm wikipedia i ramble about my favorite wikipedia articles

  

  repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a ... future career, but reading about completely useless trivia is so much more ... 've never seen a martin scorsese film"]Martin Scorsese[/annotation], who is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  nothing is impossible (and in some ways, it did that for me), for the most ... in the class, there was a sense in which I didn't feel utterly hopeless ... that helped me be less afraid to reach out in the first place is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  at least it’s not covid sick day

  

  've gone to a medlink, if it was worse. how much worse, though? i don't know ... how much people mind being around someone who is/was sick. what if i no ... to trigger vomiting. but i haven't had a cold in years, let alone one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  class in Spain through a program called IAP Madrid. It is one of my most ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... other languages. Talking fluently in a language you don't speak natively

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  , there's just a late fee. Want to know how much it is? Better consult your ... home (MIT, that is; home would've been 10 minutes further in a different ... about keeping a car in the city. I love to drive; I've for a long time

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... my academics that much, so here's some brief insight on how things have

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020