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  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  insignificance whenever I might be at risk of feeling too hopeful. After all, “If a ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There ... beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar words of wisdom

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  senses it's actually old"]new[/annotation] point of view, staring at my ... , [annotation note="at the end of a long list of authors, but still something ... sometimes feel like it has come at the cost of "having a life." Most weeks, I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  at the tip, making it wider than the tip of the brush. I also struggled ... daily journal to varying degrees of success. I tried to keep a diary when ... complicated areas of life and leaves it at that without trying to draw a line

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  of the ways that I’ve changed at MIT. So, for most of freshman year, I ... indecisiveness about my major at the end of freshman year. It was basically that I ... of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  amount of sleep before I'd have to wake up super early. Of course, at 5 in ... building because of a potential fire. At 5 in the morning, it is freezing cold outside. None of the firefighters seemed very happy to be up at this

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  have these traits as outgoing people. There are many types of people at ... schools and one of the factors I'm considering is the social scenes at the ... groups at many places on the web, including the Office of the Arts website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  cry, made me stare at the ceiling at 3am and question my sense of self ... 's conclusion, where at the end of the day all those cliches are, in Bo's words ... movie" and it didn't feel like that at all. The movie of my life sucks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  review, I'm deciding to be at home. I'm taking stock of the semester that ... dinner, I brought out my stacks of books and offered my friends ... , have dinner with an older one, and attend the latest iteration of the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  backseat of a lesser sized yellow overpriced mini beast until I arrived at ... do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and

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

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  manipulate and assemble nanowires at the National Institute of Standards and ... powerful. We'll have more power in the volume of a sugar cube than exists in ... cryptographer, 1997 Given the hype surrounding the potential applications of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  of them. Before every launch, I glanced at one line of the table ... and poked at a few of them, just to see what would happen. My un ... on the head by a plum, as if it too were offering me some kind of

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

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don't Doonesbury vote-bomb me though! A new class will be offered by the Economics Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  Period) at MIT, which offers a plethora of random activities, ranging from ... an onsite visit at a local biopharmaceutical company with a group of ... range of events you can attend at MIT. A New Hobby! I have a new hobby

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... -- on the bus there, I ran into a flock of Google interns wearing this super adorable shirt: But for the most part, our view of the rest of the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  into tech when I know it's not what I want to do at the end of the day ... experimental and hectic four years of your life, they tell me. You will feel your ... some silly 9-5, or throw you into 4 years of graduate school, and you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  at which the rest of the world was moving. After listening to a very ... . Mountains, denser houses than I had imagined. Lots of farmland at the foot of ... immigration card. I don't think I know my Date of Bird? - My alarm went off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... , analyzing some of the coolest art I’ve ever seen at the outdoor deCordova, and ... home and no energy left at the end of the day to do anything but make the

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Formula SAE: A Turbocharged Experience Join the MIT Formula SAE team to design, engineer, and build a small formula-style autocross…

  

  Ever wonder how a Formula 1 car can reach speeds of 210 mph and pull ... UROP, offers an exceptional opportunity to apply concepts taught in the classroom to an exciting real-world project. The purpose of the competition

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 12, 2006