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  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  , and subsequent soar into brilliant adulthood?). Who knows at this point? 41 minutes.   Soon writing season will be upon us. College and ... through this cold season, long and bleak like the emptiness of this blank i

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... students applied to transfer, and we have admitted 22. And as usual, we are very excited about the students we have admitted, and often chagrined

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  Campus Preview Weekend starts tomorrow, and for pika, my cooperative ... session, and late-night smoothies on Thursday Soapmaking, screen printing, hair dying, Italian dinner, forkapple*, shoeblade**, a tea party, and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  into the mountains, across desert islands, into Stata Cafe, and ... -dried backpacking meals, ice cream, Shin ramen, and sous-vide’d New York strip streaks ... spork is titanium, light, and little. But what’s not little is the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask Me Anything or discuss anything. or whatever really. what i'm trying to say is: open thread.

  

  various excuses and instead try to make it up to you. I'm sitting at home in ... projects and napping while my mom watches old movies and unpacks Christmas decorations. Tomorrow I'm moving, and then we're starting to meet in Early

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  , Cross Products, Resonance, Ohms, and probably some other groups that I've missed (please direct all complaints to Chris Peterson.  thanks) And what ... - who, if you recall, I'm a big fan of. ...and there was dancing

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Weekend Shenanigans the adventures (and photographs) continue

  

  , and tons of music and dancing. I highly recommend it as a Halloween ... value and street cred. Here's one of the first songs: One more thing ... on this. For now, let's do a time warp and go back a couple hours. It

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to ... the magnitude system and optics. I talked more about the class here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline

  

  above and beyond what we had originally anticipated). We're aware of the problem and are working as quickly as we can to resolve it. If you can ... , and will post more details in the next few days. As previously posted

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 31, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... Square, just a few blocks from MIT. I’m the youngest employee and the only ... first month-and-a-bit was spent building a custom charting package to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... food and festivity time and time again. It's always an energizing event for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to that of this video's protagonist, I actually did. Last Monday, I and ... features and is sponsored by tons of tech companies -- over 60 this year

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  annoying virus or something that was preventing me from seeing my desktop and ... documents (mostly math papers and math notes) My music (mostly old and ... contacts (stored by Facebook and/or Gmail) My calendar (stored by Google

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  holiday cheer, goodwill toward men, and all that; I'm referring to rooms filled with colonies of moldy (and unintentionally animate) clothes and considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped. I ran into Killian Court and flipped the bird. I gave everyone the ... about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Events

  What’s on your mind? As for me, my hair feels normal again.

  

  -component jewelry-making, seesaw- and small earth-mover-building, truffle-creating!  Not to mention the epic water war between the east side and west side ... learn their way around campus, and upperclassmen will show off every

  • by Piper '13
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Rachel was at SF Pride with Facebook

  

  Hundreds of Facebookers united behind one banner and under several ... Whole Foods float. Much, much later, we got a closer look and realized it ... start before 11AM. Some thoughtful HR people had procured stickers and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  consists of problem sets, papers, alarm clocks, and in my case, rowing ... , Holland, Uganda, Boston and Mexico City, this is the first I feel I have ... play place of skiers, campers, kayakers, rafters and those on the hunt

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  's like calling everything and everyone a flurg - you start to wonder what that even means and...well, why are you saying it so much, anyway? (Maybe ... and re-learning things at the same time, but hey, no p-sets due, right

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and ... weekend. Today incidentally also happened to be my brother's birthday AND ... whatva I do what I want" and flew home to surprise him. I have tons o

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011