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  Whirlwind Weekend highlights of the weekend (UPDATED!)

  

  '07, asked me if I wouldn't mind going up for auction, and I obliged ... handle him or not. A worldly man, he has been everywhere and is from ... and watching kung fu." Points if you can guess the movie allusion

  • by Bryan
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  colleges but by reference-letter shopping instead and using more flattering ... students living abroad who will receive packages from MIT and posted the method to this blog (since deleted) and other sites. Others have posted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yellow, Blue, Green, and Red Free art and how to borrow it at MIT

  

  , including this year, my final one at this esteemed institute. Not only have I ... for four years and in the exact same room for three. Despite the fact ... , white walls, my roommate and I have taken it upon ourselves to overhaul

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 29, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  , between classes and studying and sleeping and eating and doing things other ... cool things with my time. So I finally cleaned, and more importantly ... , and that's definitely been reflected in some of the music I've been

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)

  

  Dasgupta, Assistant Professor of genetics at Boston University; and Becky ... University. The discussion was insightful, reflective, blunt, and optimistic ... Square Theater, ticket in one hand and notebook in the other, I wasn

  • by ARTalk
  • September 22, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what we’ve been up to recently a short list about winter break

  

  We haven’t been blogging as much as we’d like to. Senior fall and ... September - November, and then grad school applications from November - now ...   Retaking the GRE ten days ago (and doing a little better than the first time

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  are airports, and the edges are flights between them. i made a vague ... trackpad). i like to have chrome and the terminal on one split screen, and ... four chinese characters long and often have really interesting meanings

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  I came into my office on Friday and guess what was waiting for me ... reading carefully every sheet of paper in your folder and summarizing the ... together and make decisions for each case. Finally, we'll put the decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670- Mechanical Engineering Tools- Week 1 Mechanical Engineering Tools (2.670) teaches us the fundamentals of machine and computer tool use so…

  

  diverge at 30 degree angles) and we're working our way to sketching more ... about physical principles and how other people have applied them. A ... derived, do a couple sample problems, maybe see a real life application, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  up to offer an overnight retreat involving students, staff and faculty ... 've been a firm practitioner of estaloam and have had the opportunity to ... , because it could be the difference between making people upset and making

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... possessions and drove west. I'll be spending the next few months living with a ... will continue living in my basement, in boxes I labelled and taped shut

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  Truffle-Making, and am currently missing the OrigaMIT Paper Folding) I've just returned from the records office downstairs, and boy do they have a ... processing that mail as quickly and efficiently as they can, but be patient

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What type of robotics programs does MIT offer?

  Interactive Robots We even offer free online course materials for students
• Blog / Challenges

  mit: it’s complicated confliCTING FEELINGS

  

  i've been drafting and drafting this blog post over and over again in ... old, i live in random hall, and i. am. exhausted. these past two weeks at mit have definitely been very fulfilling and gratifying, yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What Is an MIT Community? ...a personal experience

  

  sharing and appreciating passions, regardless of major and background. The Institute has far exceeded my expectations for social involvement, and in the ... Institute in this post, and will return to the topic in more detail soon. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Michael Xiang: Double UROP Extraordinaire! Michael Xiang has two UROPs, one at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and another…

  

  Whitehead Institute, Mike works under the auspices of Prof. Harvey Lodish and ... Speaking from experience, having a UROP is a big time and emotional investment. On average, UROPers spend eight hours in the lab per week and a lot

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 25, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  interesting redux of my sophomore IAP, which I blogged about here, and from ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and ... . And both times, it was wonderful. Two (very long) years apart, after a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Infinite Corridor, set alight or, why dozens of people were crammed into a tiny stairwell at 4:19:53 PM EST

  

  off short buildings.  Grumkins who haunt the hallways and who never see ... written about on the blogs, though, and this is one of them. The central ... the entire length of MIT's main buildings.  And a few days a year, the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  " YES! So as college students, we're constantly looking for deals, and we ... tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The City On A Hill The "M" of " MIT"

  

  offers 57334534923 (not a hyperbole) convincing reasons to attend, to me ... Massachusetts, and not a day has gone by without me thinking "TGI Boston" (even ... is an unbelievably cool city. From the music scene to the history and

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008