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  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  while she saw it as an exchange where she offered moments of connection ... Splendid Suns in high school, and I finished most of the book in one sitting ...  One of my 2020 resolutions was reading 10 books, and I just

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... laws of physics." This is untrue. Chuck Norris can change the laws of ... Oppenheimer said "I am become death, the destroyer Of worlds", He was not

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Recap: wearables, games, and other SUPER products

  

  Last week, I posted the webcast of the final presentations for 2.009 (Product Engineering Processes), a capstone product design course in Course 2 ... provides real-time haptic feedback to help those who are hard of hearing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exploring the Outdoors! In Kresge that is...

  

  that they design over the course of the semester. It's always amazing ... At the end of fall semester, I look forward to one thing. No, it ... about the product design process (Ideate. Model. Test!) and then apply

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  little bit of what Boston has to offer and how you can fit that bit of ... sets take a significant portion of their time throughout the week. Here ... out of class contributed to mastering the material. For me, I cannot

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  friends! My team has a lot of people who lived in my school-home building at this school, which warms my heart and makes me think of the good-times I had in my school-home. My team also has a lot of people who did not go

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  closer as friends and also relieved a lot of the shame we both felt ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... while in quarantine as a form of “creative writing”. I should have failed

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  elementary school and worked my way through a beautiful collection of nature ... triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically ... reaching the heavy heat of Kentucky summers, summer in Alaska feels more

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  I wanted to go to grad school. The mask was just my way of ... seen. Seen in the sense of sending a message to someone, but they just ... , in which case you should look and listen instead of just hear (protip

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  with the last parts of our process before decisions are made final and ... to Dulles International Airport (designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed MIT's Kresge Auditorium and Chapel) and discovered that due to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  . Concourse offers its own versions of the[annotation note="General Institute ... a committee of techX which runs a high school research mentorship ... day-to-day of school and extracurriculars. It's an easy thing to turn to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  , Four years of my life, when everyone at my high school literally forgot I ... the whole strange controversial concept of “designer babies” and the ... , your friends, your life. You are worried because one of your high school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Indra Nooyi presentation A presentation from Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer for PepsiCo.

  

  This afternoon I went to a talk on Diversity in Action by Indra Nooyi. She spoke at Sloan (MIT's school of management) as part of a series that will host the following speakers later this semester:

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 28, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do I have to submit my final grades?

  Most students apply to college at the beginning of their last year of high school, so final grades aren't available. Only admitted students are required to submit their final grades.  
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... should have tossed the upright piano onto the baby grand instead of the

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  the classical style, you have to prepare the 7th degree of a chord in ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting MIT’s Newest Truman Scholar! Yeah, I know I've been blogging a lot this week - but believe me, you…

  

  , graceful, and the kind of person who, when I'm tired and crying at 2 in the morning, will bring me a box of chocolate (Twix ♥) and offer me a hug. I've seen her in a variety of roles over the past year and a half or so: she

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Science is Delicious! Zen and the art of hot chocolate

  

  heartbreaking, than I imagined back in July when it was spoken of in distant ... admissions veterans were probably speaking in the IHTFP tone: that mix of dread ... 't know that I'm at the "embrace" stage of my MIT evolution (I think I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can get anything you want… ...excepting Alice. Or a good blog entry.

  

  another week or two before I get back in the swing of things. Incidentally ... until the middle of the night--it makes me nostalgic for my own Freshman ... circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 17, 2005