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  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  Despite what I said last time, I did manage to snap a couple of ... supposed to get 15 gallons of ice cream on Thursday morning that never showed ... supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  High School. I was treated to a pre-game show by the School Marching Band ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... route of the flight (Phoenix to Tucson) was over the desert? Just thought

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  The class average on the first [annotation note="Intro to Algorithms ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it out to a group chat, and we all drooled at the thought of spending ... . I had been on the lookout for other options, and ETH seemed to be the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered, and housing. While doing MISTI, I’ve taken two personal side trips: 1 to Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.

  

  my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... 's to come. I don't think this is going to be one of those posts. I don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  , I have a confession to make to my fellow VMars fans... ...Ready? I ... while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  together. I was so surprised I was so easily able to form a friend group ... sexualisation I tend to talk about friend groups a lot on the blogs. I've always ... consequently broke up and we all moved to different dorms and eventually stopped

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  My winter break so far take a break

  

  Santa Monica to see Emma and we spent the day together at the Promenade ... break. I made plans to paint, work out, write, study, and a whole other slew of things. Unfortunately, my break didn't exactly go according to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 29, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host ... credit to Richard Beaubien and Marshall Goff who helped photograph the slam

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  you get very used to working together and helping other people think ... prospective students ought to be asking about schools they're considering, headed off with the questions What is the student mentality with regard to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  Not only the blogs' birthday—in trying to decide what to write, I discovered one of my old draft blog posts turned 10. Ten years ago, almost to the day, I was trying to figure out how to tell folks on here what the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  of many simple “modules” linked together to form a larger, more ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never ... fun models, from the traditional orizuru (paper crane) to Christmas

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  since the most common way to work together didn’t work well for me, I was ... note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for international students

  

  ban," which, among other things, suspended entry to the United States ... , including (but not limited to) those from the countries affected by the ban, contribute to our campus and the world afterward, and that the travel ban harms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in civil and environmental engineering because I wanted to eventually work on sustainable infrastructure for the US or the developing world. As I started to

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  forehead and trying not to cringe from the terrible aftertaste of the iced ... gabbing about everything from data visualization to volunteering to the ... have any questions for me?" I came prepared but wasn't expecting to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  , and start a company together. And maybe if you go to a third school you ... CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the ...  choosing between jobs to estimate their probability of making each choice. Their

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012