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  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... they were admitted, once the glow of joy dimmed down, there lurked in the ... the chosen few. They begin to wonder, in other words, if they were a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  , culminating in skydiving. Needless to say, he had a good time. This story has grown near and dear to my heart in my lifelong quest to become the ... dinner with some '08s who are now full-time techies in San Francisco, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  tough decisions and the best way to do that, we think, is to take part in ... us in the Admissions Office has a particular group of programs that we ... logical choice to talk about what the weekend has in store for you if you

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  double (or triple -- slightly debatable) pun in the title and subtext. For ... ?); by 'MIT', I mean my friend Michele and a few of her cohorts in the ... pretty cool program to consider when in high school; although I wouldn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  slightly embellished story that is nonetheless true in its essentials. Before ... professional author, and the following was written in about one hour and never ... time in the larger of the two living rooms, in which resided four squishy

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  year, I did nothing but eat, hang out with my suite (+ friends) in Burton ... , so the rooms in a suite will be 254A-254E, in our case.). And made snowmen in the moat of the chapel. We celebrated my birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Working at a Toy Company! I promise you, my job was cooler than yours.

  

  beginning of the semester in August but never got around to finishing it. I ... at work (written back in August, but still perhaps true?), but for now ... members of Team Stealth we decided to dress up in miscellaneous combat gear

  • by Snively '11
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  Each year of elementary school, in late November, one could walk into ... elementary school. In middle school there was much less Thanksgiving festivity ... schools, this blog entry is about big kid school, MIT, the best school in

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  In case you haven't noticed, I'm blogging less frequently now. There ... tasty avocado. *My roommate found a box of 50 avocados for $3 TOTAL in an open-air market the other day so now there are a lot of avocados in our

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So, uh… help me pick classes I have no classes.

  

  interest in learning how to make forceful arguments in written form. Studies ... the problems of reality and fiction in autobiography and biography. K ... rehearse Senegalese drumming techniques and spoken word. Perform in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... ' in the floor lounge, going to see Wicked, snowball fights with Conner 4

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  again was right smack dab in the middle of finals week. Sometimes I like ... knew this in the past anyway - not the socks part, the other thing - so ... .) In fact, to me, change was the point- I actually never seriously

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  in my head. I was experimenting with large format for the first time ... designing the camera in between study sessions using Google SketchUp, and ... out of cherry and brass, with my homemade, faux leather bellows in the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  , because I'm leaving for Mexico in a few hours and I have yet to pack and ... positive: In three weeks, there were 29 activities. 29. Most of them involving free food of some sort. And if you attend ten, you are entered in a

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two ... little background. Actually, there's quite a bit of background. Back In The ... ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office. So in case you didn't know, I should probably tell you that Ben is ... -birthday party in his office. The preparations began last Wednesday night. My

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  me. The cry of the small child in his arms yanks me unpleasantly back ... bathroom wafting overhead for six hours, the guy in front of me reclining into my spleen, the guy on my right bathed in eu d'blah-blah-YOU'RE ON AN

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  , you get a lot of choice in what you want it to be. Former blogger Mollie ... have learned the basic required material and will be in upper ... website, and say that if you send me your contact info I can put you in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  actually written in English, or that other people could actually understand ... , I had worked in a scientific lab, so I knew that these mythical “ ... ways… Last July, I was sitting in front of my computer at work

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  (There comes a time in all great bloggers' lives when, while writing ... brought it in pieces over from Ireland (I meant Patrick the IRISH Irish, not ... his hard drives was broken. So Patrick the Irish decided to stick it in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006