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  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main culprit was briefly considered (a 5'8", 115-lb. freshman from New York -- it ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  chances of ever entering an American university, and assisted an elderly man ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  #2). When I think of my love for New York, I think of days like that ... . From the same booklet as #39, and also a view of New York that makes me ... Covering my walls in postcards and various other pieces of paper is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  of Admissions at MIT, wrote a short book called College Admissions and the Public Interest. It's a longstanding handbook of the admissions profession, and one of those texts that reads basically as true today as it did

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  out of 7.28 (Molecular Biology) at 1 PM, stopped by the lab for about 15 ... Newbury Streets; both are streets with a high concentration of shops ... weasel out of ski lessons, since I don't own a pair of ski pants. So this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

    One of my favorite questions to ask, when talking to ... know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill, and avoid pseting (the opposite of punting is tooling). But here in the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  ) tried to strengthen ties with the University of Zambia (UNZA ... . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... condition (e.g. "In 2000, an estimated 73% of the population lived below the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  :30pm Kresge Auditorium - MIT - FREE In celebration of Black History ... !! "Pulse: Waves From the Motherland" is a demonstration of the extent to which Africa has influenced art of all kinds and, with this influence

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Le BBQ

  

  BBQ in the history of the universe. I should warn you that I saw Le ... Two of my dear friends, Gary & Sherveen, wanted to host a BBQ ... graduation/4th of July decorations were on sale, but I chose to look forward

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  , it do be bad now. This form (both of its parts) has a lot of 90 degree ... , maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a ... (tennis)"]organized sports teams/clubs.[/annotation] This hope of exploring

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  " degree? When my acceptance letter from MIT arrived, things got a little ... torn up, I happily made my way to Boston in the fall of 2005. However ... ) Program, and experienced one of the best weeks of my life. Ever since then

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  looking at old journals gap year chronicles, ft thoughts on science, art, and moving through the world

  

  ago + is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... and carried on. I wrote a lot while I was living out of my car ... ’ve become illiterate, too hosed to read good books. For all of October I have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Nisha’s Video Game Review cloud is judging me for this

  

  that sort of analysis is too rigorous for this blog post, and also too ... of post for restaurants before we all got kicked out of Cambridge, but ... permanently humongous backlog of video games that I barely manage to make a dent

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost any reason as ... years. Adds Lee Stetson, dean of admissions at the University of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Enterlude Brought to you by the letter "L", for Late, Lame, and real Life. Or something…

  

  is that there’s a pretty universal handful of questions that all ... terrifyingly untested (and, thus, unpopulated); little clusters of people ... aforementioned features for the apple of my childhood-reliving eye, the glory of

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • September 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it ... pacific science center laserdome. a few weeks ago it was fourth of july and ... our neighbors' backyards all around us. every once in a while one of us

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  eight of us were hanging out in one person's room after class, someone put ... more times before the end of the program. By the fourth time, I could ... ; Hanna's gone off to New York for grad school, but I'm stuck around because

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  , Leeward Community College, and the University of Hawaii at Manoa, I had ... -time, so I had to budget my time carefully. I made the plan to do most of my ... making weren’t a good use of my time and weren’t making my application any

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Physical Olivia Newton-John, I am not, but I can still pretend.

  

  's Department of Athletics, Physical Education, and Recreation (DAPER) is in charge of the physical education (PE) requirement that MIT students have the privilege of completing before grdauation. You can read more about

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 5, 2005