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Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT
to Be True. It was meant to be a simple introductory post, and I suppose it was, but I also wanted it to act as an anchor. I told myself that ... throw down the anchor. I could revisit what I knew to be true. Looking -
Blog / MIT Life
An Overture to the Commencement of a Very Rigid Journey Sam's Mom dubs me Sami-stop-spleening-me!, because I am always spleening her.
Very shortly, Sam's Mom and I will be on the road to Cambridge. So, I ... , otherwise it'd be pretty much impossible to adapt to film. Stylistically, it's pretty close to what I imagined the novel looking like. I'm not impressed -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.
Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this ... to be exact. Amal, the guy who organized the convention, was ... which enables women in poor communities to "get back the eight hours a -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge
IAP I took the MIT EMS class to become a certified emergency medical ... members in the service so during the semester, it can be difficult to get ... weeks of IAP was to take as many shifts as I could while a lot of people -
Blog / Admissions
“How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.
live are preparing to celebrate Marathon Monday tomorrow but for those of ... and this is our last chance to make certain that every detail is perfect ... the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can -
Blog / Academics & Research
In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!
great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school -
Blog / Athletics
[Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24
wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome everyone to campus. Andre H. '24 gave a great speech that was equal parts fun -
Blog / Announcements
Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors
enthusiastic amateur MIT historian — Danny B.D. ’15 directed me to the 1930-1931 MIT Bulletin, which instructs those who wish to petition for entry to the Institute to room 10-100.']for decades,[/annotation] constituted the -
Blog / Academics & Research
(An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.
of companies send recuiters to set up booths at MIT. It fills up an ice ... , and anxiety. Last year, I went to the career fair with the primary ... , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new -
Blog / Life after MIT
Listen to “MIT Is…” with Cynthia F. ‘18 on the MIT Trashion Show, escaping the MIT bubble, and UROPing at the Media Lab
around the idea of an audio thing for awhile, and decided to give it a shot ... guestblogger. Kellen works with MIT students to run the @MITStudents accounts on ... @MITstudents as being complementary to the blogs: whereas we hire a few students -
Blog / Academics & Research
It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.
Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting around and doodling. Stuff like going to class and paying attention to important stuff. Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When -
Blog / Academics & Research
What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things
to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... directly led to my job at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory this summer, too. In the fall, one of JPL's Curiosity engineers gave a talk to the Solar -
Blog / MIT Life
Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.
. Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight -
Blog / Uncategorized
a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?
either an acronym or a number. There's a quirky language to MIT, a handful ... the day-to-day. Hack = hacking, of course; punt = punting work, playing ... Sciences; used to refer to any non-technical class. "I'm taking .006, 18 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take
This past semester, I took 4.354, Intro to Video and Related Media ... organizing, to the filming, the lighting, the sound recording, and the post-processing. I got to experiment with Super8 film cameras, which are both extremely -
Blog / MIT Life
One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…
documents that would come to be known as the Pentagon Papers (Ellsberg was a ... ; activism has largely been confined to a few small groups, many of which have ... awkward situation. While it didn’t want to appear indifferent in the -
Blog / How to Food
How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible
This post is dedicated to 2021s who aren’t sure if they can survive ... new Pilot 2021 optional meal kit plan. The appendix also compares it to ... note: you are required to purchase a meal plan if you live in a dorm with -
Blog / Challenges
[Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23
backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... mine is make a plan to lessen that 😌 Try out every pen in your house and ... to finish an entire [annotation note="impossible - emily"]Pamela Reif