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  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... video games and fan communities. His conclusions have helped put them squarely into a historical context of artistic and creative activities. Much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  that state. My computer desktop - I never look at it, and so it just ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about ... Internet? What   things on the Internet help you feel more happy and less

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  , physics, and calculus (these classes are known as the General Institute ... frequent state of confusion and dismay, which culminated in me not passing ... 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Tulane University and will attend MIT for the semester. ''I am a bit ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... reviewed, revised, maintained and repaired as needed," he said. "To see a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... palace is used only occasionally for state functions and on most days ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  ? right? Eh my state of mind is very much a work in progress. And as the ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  in a perpetual state of groaning and wondering why I had to think about ... Internet! Long time, no talk. Why such a long time and so little talk ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  questions such as 'Just how excited are you, really, about airplanes??' and ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... because they'd done well in their 10th grade Jet Propulsion class and found

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  National Gallery (East Wing designed by MIT alum I.M. Pei) and maybe the ... how different our grade system is and how we don't use GPAs etc. My ... , and any supplemental materials helping us to understand those grades are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... world these days. Mention eating, and people say 'cholesterol.' Mention

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  of classes and try to get as many degrees as humanly possible. My ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a double minor in Biomedical Engineering and Economics. Who does that

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hi, I’m Lulu ...a different kind of blogger; I take pictures.

  

  Hi, I'm your second new blogger, there's Keri, and then there's me ... basic things you need to know about me and this blog you can read about in ... I was 8, and then to several other places before settling down in New

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  5, 2005 Smith's ''genius" for designing simple and affordable ... . ''Usually a degree in engineering means you'll eventually be working on cars or bombs," said Smith. ''I don't drive a car, and I don't kill people

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  anxious students and family members who are going through the college application season, and are either trying to vibe out whether they want to apply to MIT, or they already have and now must wait a grueling amount of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  , East Campus, and Senior House) dorms plus Burton Conner allow students to paint their rooms. Other modifications, such as lofts, and I suppose ... TV and fridge, sure- you're welcome to put whatever you'd like into

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  black people are the majority, and coming to the States where I am part of ... breath and force myself back to my zen state, and I think these situations ... conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  the well-practiced, the shouts of people reached my ears. “Come and see ... while holding a bottle of water and having it spill all over me (last ... impressionable moments come from other sources, and I want to share a few of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013