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  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  I'm on the West Coast now, and things are great. First, I flew into Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the ... Davidson Institute offers many programs of interest to the kinds of students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  Flowers student to attend MIT, thanks to scholarships Student ... Technology in the fall. Eletha Flores' dream always was to attend the ... that's fine because she had a plethora from which to choose, including a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  trip brought me to Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan over three great weeks. As this was purely a vacation, I decided to not do any work on my trip (though I do hope to do a work-related visit to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  managed to place [annotation note="To be completely accurate, I actually had ... rankings to progress to the live game show. Thus I ended up 3rd and won $15 ... . Here in Part 2, I've analyzed the remaining four games, hoping to gain more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  listed 10 lines for students to fill in. For the first time, Jones says ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... , from rural Saskatchewan to southern Mississippi. Most prominently, it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  Scuti became the first person in human history to beat tetris. It’s a ... I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  bathroom. 3. At first I never understood why people prefer to board early ... terminal to another, NRT has the cleanest toilets you can possibly imagine ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  Shrey! The first day of Blueprint is now completed. I have to admit ... the morning after staying up until 1am (skull emoji – selena) to sort ... supporting them to build projects in 9 hours"]BLUEPRINT 2025 [/annotation] IS

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Last semester, I met W.M. in one of my classes, 3.019 (Intro to ... sense something special about them from our first interaction. The ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally ... , around 3-4 inches/7.5-10 centimeters of snow fell. according to this ... matter in the entire month…until Friday," to which I say, "weak sauce

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part one) random trinkets from freshman year

  

  -every-birthday-card-in-a-cute-box-sentimental type. More like borderline-hoarders-that-have-to-assess ... away all the trash we wanted to keep). But entering college as adults^TM, we knew we’d eventually have to solve the issue ourselves. Lucky for us

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  totally arbitrary order, starting with number 2. My first exposure to Rocky Horror was, to the chagrin of many, actually a fairly watered-down version ... 3. learned about cornhole 4. went to Nightmarket It was a very good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some < ... to move out. For Next House, residents that weren't graduating had to ... final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back Home No Strings Attached

  

  carousel and, to my delight, it was the first one out! My parents and I left ... than flying home during the winter. This is actually the first time I've flown in the summer since I came to college in 2007. My only experiences

  • by Snively '11
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  Yeah, I know. It's a weird title for a first blog entry. But bear ... just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Happily ever after I don't believe in fairy tales, but real life isn't bad either.

  

  is in the Longwood Medical Area, and the labs I've chosen to rotate in ... things this winter that I did last winter: going to class, reading lots of ... difference is that now I'm getting paid significantly more to do it. (Ugh, I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  time. First, I read the application components. I try to understand who ... I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  Cross-registration is one of the most amazing features to exist at ... . I wrote this blog to capture the memories I made last summer with my ... cross-registered at MIT to take [annotation note="previously known as just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  Never Have I Ever…reflected on my identity "too indian" or "not indian enough"?

  

  -watched the Netflix show Never Have I Ever. The show, which happens to be the No ... they deserve. I was, of course, hyped to watch it since I've never seen a ... issues that have prompted me to think about my culture and where I fit into

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  many as a romcom character gets to decide her life. Five days. This week, someone from my hall at MIT asked, “When are you coming home to 1E ... reason I dream to return each time. I’ll refrain from describing her so as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015