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  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... alums of First East.   6. Carrot cake baked by the First East Birthday

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What happened since the end. Bringing you up to speed on life since I finished all my schoolwork. FOREVER. (You're…

  

  our paper to reflect our professors comments on our first draft, but ... closer together those entries were. I used to say that after 3 or 4 days ... /weeks/months that I haven't had time to write anything. Here, check out my full page

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this fall, for reasons unrelated to the pseudo-kidnapping, which took place at ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  surprised by how quickly my students caught on to code. These were students ... -paced curriculum. If I had to learn computer science in Spanish, I would probably ... host teacher requested that I provide grades, so in addition to grading

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  basically amounted to, "But wait. Wouldn't you die?" NO, Chester. The first ... beginning to punt in spectacular fashion), it was really refreshing to get a ... was less refreshing to do all this in one month, but so it goes. Here

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... half of the things on it until I get to Cambridge since most of it is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Atomic Friends a comic

  

  first assignment of the class, we were challenged to write a script for a ... the descriptions that will then be given to an illustrator. Then this ... easy to follow path. Comic books, though, are static images that rely

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maseeh Hall: Pros and Cons this is a pros and cons list re: maseeh hall

  

  to decide which dorm I wanted to live in for my first year at MIT. I ... it looks clean and it’s close to everything. 3) I can’t even remember ... reading this because you might be looking to move here in the future, or

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Missy Cummings on The Colbert Report At the end of the interview, she and Stephen face off in Rock 'Em Sock…

  

  The Colbert Report. Professor Cummings was one of the US Navy's first ... Colbert Report: it's important to understand the context of the program and ... Colbert Report is a spin-off from and counterpart to The Daily Show that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Teatro ZinZanni Another trip to the circus -- is my boss trying to imply something?!

  

  Intramural Table Tennis team. Or learn how to dance through MIT Ballroom ... the table next to Gavin Newsom, the mayor of San Francisco. Sigh. First circus school, then this... any guesses about what's next?

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 ... -worthy rendering of the E52-383 office cluster. In the first office is Professor ... . (This is where all the magic happens.) Huge kudos again to Professor

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  township was large enough to need two high schools, there was only Middletown High School. When the district decided to expand, the original building ... was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  improve myself so I wouldn’t look so pale in comparison to him. At first I ... unique power, like density control, or to control friction, or to forget ... ’t help but feel like he became a propaganda tool. Used to support the U

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  , despite having bleached it myself repeatedly!). I forgot to bring my book along with me to the drying apparatus, so while my hair was gently warmed ... freshman IAP, and I’m bad at remembering to condition it. After I left home I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  . The first step was obtaining the wood (tbh, big thanks to Anika there ... up to; as an applicant, seeing other applicants brag about their skills ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  results of a semester, year, or life's worth of effort. It boiled down to a desperate attempt to see an online grade, a college decision, or how many ... 't know how to use my camera.) And although I had a lot of fun sitting with

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  . EDIT: Timur informs me that these pages are not accessible to non ... get an idea:   In fact, that's the source I used to find my job 3 ... few other things are charged directly to my student account, but

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  sort of gotten used to it now, but on the first day everyone was like ... have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I ... being Harv '08, and I've gotten to know some of her similarly cool friends

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  defend my home. =) Tomorrow: I'm going to the Manchester FIRST regional ... lathe, which I think makes me pretty cool, thank you very much. I got to put those new skills to work just last night, when I helped turn (turn

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006