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  Why I’m Leaving the MIT Admissions Blogs it's been a good run.

  

  got me with it and I knew I would use it one day. Soooo worth the 365

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  talked about how badly planning is needed. For me, combining planning with engineering is giving me the opportunity to use creativity and technical ... . It's also allowing me to keep the options of both fancy sustainable

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  Regular readers may know that I've admired Apple's design philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  sent me during finals. They are haunting and necessary. 2. Notes from No ... once. They are gentle and severe. I want this woman to teach me how to ... Baldwin. James Baldwin is everything. I brought this book with me everywhere

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  small things. For me, a love of wild and beautiful places demands

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My Talk @ Maker Faire a bit about how we see, select, and support makers

  

  you have any questions about the maker portfolio, let me know below!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Enjoying the Little Things In which I ramble about happiness and taking breaks

  

  In lieu of posting about any huge on-campus events or grandiose life-changing moments (of which I've had none in the past two weeks, to my knowledge), I decided to make a vlog about the little things that make me happy. If you

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not Much Has Changed except a lot has changed

  

  called Two Truths and a Lie, that blogger was me, and today I'm a slightly ... , that was definitely an unexpected decision for me that changed the course ... . Anyday feels like yesterday to me if I think about it long enough. MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  /insomnia at two in the morning, which allowed me to record (still kind of subpar

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... ago, so perhaps you might be curious as to how different life is for me ... . But let me tell you - working at MIT is a suh-weet deal. All the awesome

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of ... to the Midwest, so I was expecting the Windy City to greet me like this: Luckily I can say that beyond the weather, Chicago was quite good to me

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  ) Easily-Googleable questions make me grumpy. Ex: "what is the application ... Internet for logistical questions before you ask me. 2) When I receive ... imagine what it will look like to me a few years down the road. You may look

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  the world had come for the sole purpose of recruiting me! Well, not quite. They didn’t want me. They wanted the upper classmen. I was just the ... guy said the best he could let me do was take a picture standing at the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... fact that the kid in front of me is taking notes rapidly in LaTeX and it's making me feel bad about myself. So that I don't confuse (3) with (1), I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  replied: Whoops. Thanks for letting me know! My most loyal, dedicated reader (dad) gave (regularly gives) me: A list of typos from my most ... !) which to me is the most important thing. Also, there are great

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  and executive producer of the game Journey. Her talk reminded me how much meaning I derive from video games, and made me question whether I ... kinda surreal for me, because it was actual footage of a scene that my dad

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is an Incomplete Grade? ABCDF....I? How to use MIT's grading system in dire situations

  

  helped me realize that Course 1 wasn't my destiny. SO WHAT IS THE BOXED I ... excited. Little did I know the depth I was getting into. Me and my teammate ... something that had grown quite important to me. And so my summer break began

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  2017, right now, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Before me lies a ... struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  cardstock that entitle me to a non-reserved seat on what I can best describe ... , I’m sitting on a bus that will take about 8 hours to get me half way ... day for me: I show up at 8:30, my supervisor and I talk about what we

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  playwright turned out to be standing next to me, so we wished him luck and ... because the woman standing right in front of me got to take home the ... 's friend. He asked me what we did in Charlottesville, and I explained that we

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013