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  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story ... 't end up feeling that way, then reach out to people - you will find ... stuff. Talk. And don't always feel like you need to have a p-set in hand

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  preserving student community what does it take?

  

  where we don't have access to campus. But what's a community or culture ... Conner is seeing a few changes that have implications for its ability to ... away to frats or sororities, where they would have the ability to ~vibe

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 20, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  Context: I wrote a post in March called "I Moved to Maine" . You can ... in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... point where I almost saw myself as having a “cannon”. Like I was a comic

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  think through them is like trying to find a needle in a…um…place with lots ... outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and ... —so to speak—came simply enough. I sat down somewhere to write a 3-hour

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  scientific questions can evolve to real findings. George had a number of ideas ... heard about OpenCourseWare, a large (and well-funded) effort to put all of ... opportunity, a way to explain the research process through material, context and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  to rise and after mumbling a couple of sleepy words no doubt filled ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... things where MIT tries to compensate for beating the crap out of everyone

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Discovering Yourself A bit more mushy than normal. . . deal.

  

  known as high school. Everything from where you sat at lunch to which ... allow me to tell you something exciting and maybe a little concerning. As ... writing for me, I can't force myself to write something within a given

  • by Snively '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  ="capture-the-flag, a term of art for 'cybersecurity competitions where you try to get ... Discord, where someone has texted me asking if I want to pick up a ... [annotation note="a room where MIT used to have computers for shared usage, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  there are two popular approaches to moving a cart. the first one is ... happens - you try to push the cart in a straight line, but at the slightest ... chaotic, chaotic to the point that sometimes you can’t push a cart down the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  . sometimes i’ll write blog posts where i have a few key points i want to ... find it so easy to reduce art to a single message and work to a single ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  Engineering professor. I can’t express how grateful I was to be a student at the ... . I even had a conversation with Marc Abrahams. He told me to look out ... -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  you might not be able to tell.) Instead of scrambling to find a research ... days ago I got back from Ireland, where I gave a seminar and served as the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  a time where she can “focus on pursuing research questions which ... going in to lab.” When Emilienne started her UROP, she spent a lot ... the varsity track and field team, I decided to take a chance with the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  up on the roof (using a telescope to find Comet Pan-STARRS as the sun ... to find the Beehive Cluster using a map (that I read in red lamplight ... Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Brief Addition to My Last Exposition (Or was it a narrative? My FCAT Writing skills are long gone.)

  

  torn apart my house trying to find a crowbar so I could break into my ... comments to a post in some older blog y'all don't know about, when I was so ... key. The tube was by my front door. I missed it on my way in to find the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 20, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  're definitely not in Boston anymore... After a three hour drive, we made it to ... about the Olive Garden that draws cross-country teams like moths to a ... of our nation, inescapable no matter where we travel to. In any case, I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  My Long-Overdue CPW Recap Better late than never!

  

  his Virtual CPW Project is a great way to conclude this entry ... So I did pretty much everything I said I was going to do at CPW, but ... at the registration desk, shown here with Anthony. This was a special

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an ... MIT account to find out the name of your EC, and to schedule the interview ... , your EC wants to get to know you as a person so he/she can add another

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  . Was your research output impactful enough to lead to a start-up?” I ... MIT faculty on cutting-edge research. Typically, a student would find a ... learned in classes to create a tangible product. Did you know that Collier

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... us. If your team wants to reserve a room (or more) through the official

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005