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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name, email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... finish or post any of them :( (Interruption: Ahmed '12 is sitting next to ... write about something special: numbers. See if you can make sense of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  RainbowFloor@MIT Because at MIT, if it doesn’t have a mailing list, it doesn’t exist. Fact.

  

  of bloggerdom, crowding my blogspace with its inconvenient, road ... amazed, out of my suite kitchen one night, the sound of a cadre of people ... émon approximation of Tim the Beaver. WRONG.However, I digress. What I really meant to

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  I just had the busiest, craziest summer of my life. I remember a ... fraction of the most difficult course at my school. A course on American ... taste of academic rigor. We learned with assembly-line urgency; papers

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  We were all saddened by the news of Marilee Jones' resignation. In ... felt. The message of "being" vs. "doing," quality over quantity, and ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of ... Traags' treatment of the Oms is ironically contrasted with their high level

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  close to the amount of brain-shocking work that your two math classes will ... use some community sympathy also. :) What? Of course it makes you appear ... remember from the Mario hack entry, I was friends with a bunch of people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is ... catch up on a few television shows, most of them being reality TV. While ... comment. As Matt mentioned earlier, on this season of The WB's Beauty and

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  You know, that intro stuff

  

  Every journal has to start off with some sort of introduction. I ... ridiculously detailed records of my life... I guess you could say I was born for ... rundown of what I considered to be the essential statistics in my life: "My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of ... 't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... something in MIT's favor: even though we have 41 varsity sports, and ~20% of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  I just returned from seeing an LSC free sneak preview of I Heart ... fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 Mile and Grosse Pointe Blank, and missed sneaks of School of Rock and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... tinnnnnyyy little country in Europe. It's about double the size of Boston by area and about a tenth of the size by population. So by U.S. standards

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  , CJ and I promised that we would write a post full of wonderful facts and obscure lore about the history of the T. This is not that post. However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of ... illustration of my less-than-seaworthy vessel? Crafted from “heavy duty” vinyl

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  Hunt is the title of this blog post. The author’s an MIT alum whom I know ... knowledge of MIT’s campus and all its many quirks. Their blog also has a lot of cool MIT-related posts, like this one, or this one, or this one

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  : Vincent Anioke. Year 2 Undergrad. Department of Electrical Engineering and ... -food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... with a table of contents Open strong and generate excitement by giving a preview of what you're discussing. What better way to do this than with a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Last Minute Rehearsal music in the time of corona

  

  attempt to make something positive out of this otherwise terrible situation ... about one of these events that we were involved with and the experience of going to the final rehearsal in the last days of us being on campus

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 18, 2020