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  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... Talent Development Institute, or TDI. TDI was supposed to be a camp for "talented and gifted children." Other than being REAL GOOD at reading, I didn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  AND being busy at the same time. I resent it. Regardless, it's that ... .: that is, a year before June 25, 2010... It's perhaps shocking and quite ... , 2001, and June 25th, 2009 -- the day of the attacks on the World Trade

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  it with a road 45 degrees offset from most of the city, how hunters ... afraid of upsetting the chinese government, and so on   ii. of ... ongoing housing and homelessness crises. this is an expansive and very

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  engineering, both civil and mechanical. “Uhh, copper?” “No, like, music.” “Oh ... . I signed up for two twelve-hour shifts deconstructing the stages, and ... the first night.     While waiting in line, my friend and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  Organizing Fellow and, later on, Data Analyst for my home state of Nevada. I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... . But, as I approached spring break, assignments finally wound down and

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part three) junior trinkets

  

  are parts 1 and 2 ! As we've described in the first two parts, we have a ... organized and arranged all these things into a hopefully aesthetic square-ish shape, and will now describe all of them as we reminisce. 1

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Generally Unrelated to General Relativity In which I am not a graduate student.

  

  dessicated hours between 12 and 5 pm. Recall that the most cherished hallmark ... creativity and free-thinking, is the venerated observance of Lunchtime in the ... Recess for the worship of spherical projectiles and various incarnations of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 15, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  any of the classrooms and see hordes of hyperactive chillin's running ... headdresses, and wielding construction paper bows and arrows, chasing around the ... into the hearts of state schools around the country. What really

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to ... heavy and shipping would cost me my soul. Other than that, it's a good way

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  . The country is in a state of terrible disaster and trauma and we need a ... city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science activities that never came to our school and I want to tell how I still managed

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  the Institute of Contemporary Art and Museum of Fine Arts ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... the border, stayed at an AirBnB, and spent the weekend doing very

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  -hand last week, and it was pretty mindblowing. That’s right – the Music Cubes ... the Edward and Joyce Linde Music Building) are finally open! For those ... ensembles typically rehearse and perform"]Kresge Auditorium[/annotation] and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  a running joke between Fatima and me that started about a week before ... free for MIT students. I filled out an online application and reserved an appointment at Widener Library, where they checked my government-issued ID and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  I’ve already been on three flights. And as I attempt to make sense of ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two ... around in the boarding area. The anxious march through the plane door. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to ... difficult subject for me to write about, so I am going to stop and let you ... , Head of the Department of Architecture at MIT and lead architect of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eastward ho! Don't US people normally go to Canada or Mexico before they cross an ocean?

  

  into a vending machine and received 6 (apparently expensive) slips of ... , and somehow found it. Welcome to Japan! I work at a pharmaceutical lab ... ’t heard of them? Neither did I until I applied to MISTI-Japan and got an

  • by Stanley G.
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  ahead of me" days. A quick break from 2.001 will be good though, and I ... I'll spare you and just add it to this entry. I was exploring the Internet the other day and stumbled upon a website that touted a video of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Radio Radio

  

  An MIT '09 emailed me today and asked if MIT had its own radio ... WTBS [now TBS] for his station, and contacted the MIT radio station with an offer to buy them. Since the purchase of call letters was not yet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  , but like, a deep post. something that's a little more reflective and ... guess it's just that i've been busy with classes, and my urop, and there's a lot going on, you know? and also, overall, i'm a lot happier these

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  one test My fate and class grade is sealed With one test I'm the good ... , you can't write that down You know I tool, it's there in black and white ... last (3rd) test, and now I absolutely need an A+ on the next test to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009