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• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  stressful to be playing tic-tac-toe for free airline tickets in front of ... resort, though it is perhaps best-known as a tax haven." Poor Liechtenstein ... then go to them for free and pretend that I'm promoting socialization

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  will do this for you anyway. :-) My advising seminar, 1.A24, has proved to be a worthy contender for most intriguing class this term. We meet for an hour and a half every Monday afternoon to nibble on biscuits and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  shops I haven't shown you photos of. Up first: the Lab for Manufacturing ... a class for learning all about drafting and machine tools, and 2 ... write the code for the CNC machines: For those of you not familiar with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mocha Show ’22: Mo’Mixtape creating and performing a dance showcase, from start to finish

  

  month of January to prepare for the show, dancing from 6-11 every weekday ... week of December, the team held Mocha Formal and met to discuss ideas for ... . after Formal, the captains deliberated on which ideas we would do for the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 16, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?

  

  at MIT for 9 years.  Over that time, I've periodically opened ... ).  Directed questions that can be answered relatively briefly are best; those ... a long, philosophcal answer are not ideal for this format

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  in order to create something fun and new. For example, painting skills ... ready for people to play. I'd like to end by congratulating those of my ... hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  screen to replace mine. I hadn’t planned for this, so I walked outside and ... that would have wifi. I walked there, checked online with a few other ... a turn, and dipped inside the nearest store to ask the owner for

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  not do the same for its research? He saw it as an educational ... aspects of research, to show anyone with a knack for knowledge how ... high-profile work I had done for Amtrak. I am e-mailing you on the off

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu....Fun? Ah yes, that's it––fun! As you can probably surmise from Matt's entry ... Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  the other fifteen hours completely free for fun and (gasp) sleep is a ... data scientists (although we are ~50 people in total) based in Kendall ... interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  York Times bestselling!) novelist who’s also written comics for Marvel ... medium for pretty much all of us. Most recently, we’ve been considering ... website.   Faith spoke to us for about an hour, and then we had

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Amy Perez Name: Amy Perez; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Lubbock, TX

  

  fun facts for the price of one)! ... Toscaninis or Christina's), and I'm becoming a fan of the Boston Red Sox. I ... funny story. It shows a human side of you that we'll relate to. Fun fact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... accepted into the University of Chicago early action, and life was set for me ... considering it. I sent my deposit and housing application to Chicago within the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program Come play with us!

  

  should bring for meals, and perhaps the best way to get to campus; when I ... burning gas 93 million miles away, I am now burned to a bright red crisp. On ... it's physically impossible for anyone but me to get a sunburn. And yet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Turn around and pretend it wasn’t you Words of Wisdom

  

  across the river in Boston. It's basically an excuse for companies to give ... 't attend as a college student, I was there for Livescribe, demoing and ... . That doesn't mean we didn't take some time to have fun. I made a point of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  reaching for a calculator. EXAMPLE #1: consider being in a room with a ... ’s talk). The question: how long does it take for all audience members to ... after 30 or so seconds! The official, calculator-enabled, model for the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Photophobic

  

  strange white glint out of the corner of my eye. I turned my head as best I ... my mind reeled to remember the name for it. Then all of a sudden I ... .) I immediately gained a new appreciation for why we all wore helmets

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 28, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  waited to make my transfer to the red line on Park Street. Being back in ... closes in, I've started to get my hopes up high for the school year and ... started to improve, I'm remaining cautiously hopeful and optimistic for what

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... a particular place. In the end, though, they let me choose the best schools for me, rather than pushing me to apply to the schools they thought

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  election year. It's business as usual for most seasoned Americans but, for me ... voting for the first time. In 2004, I'd worked as an election official, on ... the night, by flashlight, for some reason, after the stragglers have

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008