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  A Snively CPW By: Snively' 11

  

  mentioning. First off, we saw an R2D2 mailbox, which was far too exciting to ... Let me begin by saying that thanks to CPW, the rest of high school is ... arrived in Boston Wednesday evening to catch an MIT Wind Ensemble rehearsal

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  i like to call 'standard' which is more or less the grammatical way to ... the blogs. Capitalizing the word 'I', being careful not to overextend ... think I have a personal twist to the standard style that actually might be

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  something I want to add: When I first joined TwT, I never imagined that we ... , a YouTube series meant to bridge the student-faculty divide by showing ... fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “So, what HAVE you been doing?” less sad shit lets get a lil more hype in here

  

  just because I find it kind of weird, maybe a little jarring. I prefer to ... 'd just touch on it a little bit. I love going to parties! I love going to bars! I love going to clubs! And I've been doing a LOT of that this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  Stepping between closing elevator doors, it doesn't even occur to you ... here.  Stovetops don't have knobs to control the gas, instead they're sliders and levers. Room doors don't have hinges to open into or out of

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  there and tried to take the first page, thinking it was a stack of ... uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... humble observations about the Institvte! And yet I have things I want to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  course, we grabbed our gear and made our way down to the first floor. We ... Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The View From the Other Side of Hell If MIT is a 400-meter race, am I really at the beginning of the home…

  

  final toy. It's the first project in the course designed for students to ... Two days ago, Sophia '10 drove Kathy '10 and I to Cape Cod, where we ... would be worrying about how much stuff there is still to do tonight." I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  I like it: 7.013 (Intro to Bio) has been kind enough to assign psets ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to ... , it looks more like this because who even goes to all of their classes? Definitely not me - I decided to write this post right after I decided I wasn

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  jobs and summer and what I want to do with my life was the last thing on ... adjusting to my new schedule and new classes (also more on that in a later post!). But as always, everything at MIT seems to runs on its own

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  In spaceflight, “attitude” refers to orientation: which direction your vehicle is pointing relative to the Sun, Earth, and other reference ... start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  lasted 30 hours, 59 minutes and 27 seconds. Thanks to my beloved high ... and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use ... day trip down to Montreux, Switzerland. I AM SO HAPPY. I've been a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go ... football (soccer) fan eh? Your comments sounds like a girl's who is trying to ... √ґln, and I have to say that just watching the game is way more exciting than

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  returns come in. I had many election-watching options to choose from ... , I hopped in a Zipcar and went out to the suburbs to a party at the home of my friend Andrew. Before I chose to come to MIT, I was nervous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  . My mom once told me about an experiment where lemmings learned to swim ... complex, convoluted routes to the center. Every time they were returned to the maze, they’d stick with the first route they’d found, never looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  first it was starting to go kind of Frozen-y, and we didn’t want that. And ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... Kelley. Though I am not allowed to share details about the film itself (no

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  I am reading so many books! getting back to my bookworm roots

  

  class became more important and I found some fun extracurriculars to ... aren't famous for how much spare time they have and nothing to fill it ... pretty disciplined person, I have no self control when it comes to books

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... nice personal touch / warm fuzzy feeling to the seemingly heartless process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... hard to work up the effort to do a comprehensive blog entry that detailed ... Mystery Hunt that I think all I'll be able to manage is an entertaining

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008