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  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... Market for some necessities (i.e. Frosted Flakes). (Although it was kind of fun carrying two cans of paint down the cereal aisle of the supermarket

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  One year ago tomorrow -- August 6, 2004 -- I started the first of six ... blogs up and running, I feel very proud of what we've been able to do ... serve your needs. I hope that this second year of blogging will be even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  so cool. I sat in a lecture and it was! But dude. You can just drop a ... vulnerable to the anguish of failing a test, like I was back in freshman year ... caffeine and a willingness to suffer, I managed to turn in half of my final

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  it was june, which in the relative scale of time we’re all in right ... wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... front of me, because somehow that made it easier to believe that i wasn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Second Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  province being published in the local newspapers. There is no other way of showing you that I made it onto this list so... can I photocopy the page and ... interviewer in your area. You can always write to [email protected] to ask

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  Amicus briefs and the ABCs of a diverse MIT A SCOTUS filing with Stanford et al, and a strategic action plan for an inclusive…

  

  Fisher v. University of Texas back in 2015 (brief).']amicus brief ... of many factors in admissions. The joint academic/industry brief ... in achieving the educational missions of institutions of higher

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  on success, meaning, and time existential musings about big questions with no answers

  

  confident in what I want out of life? I don’t know. But all I can do is keep ... answer that. “I Took a Pill in Ibiza” encapsulates all of these feelings ... per week. Economics graduate school can also be bad in terms of hours

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • December 15, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Extracurricular Information We discuss life over lunch.

  

  care of sick students in my hall and at MIT in general, which I'm really ... window wistfully, thinking of how much I'd miss my mother in the coming ... So this morning I went to lunch with three of my friends from high

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  people had to do all of those things for you you know how in ‘avatar ... instrumental in designing and building and maintaining almost every aspect of our ... free time and not care about my impact on the world? you think i can just

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stories from Uganda [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Installing an exhibit in the Wiesner Student Art Gallery.

  

  might remember I spent two months in Uganda that summer under a Public Service Center Fellowship. In June 2009, I traveled to Uganda again with ... brings computers to secondary and primary schools in Uganda. I have been a

  • by ARTalk
  • February 8, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  of your life) i. people who haven’t been in relationships tend to ... reading it was that i value relationships as a space in which you can ... everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I enjoy what I’m learning in my classes, the relentless stream of ... into my mouth while i was sitting on top of that statue in killian court ... I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  earlier this year. (And, for the record, I think in the picture at right she ... as they can because they don't believe in themselves enough or they don ... electrocuted," she said. "But I always wondered about numbers. That's the kind of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  , and I made A’s and graduated in the top of my class. I never really ... of these attempts were wrong (turns out, I can’t read and comprehend ... Time Management lecture, I feel confident that I can get the most out of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Holidays And some final thoughts before the new year

  

    ★ To think That one year ago, MIT said “Yes, you can go.” My family rejoiced, my friends cheered. Looking back, I can’t believe ... overwhelming, but give it all you got. Everyone’s afraid of failing. In each of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  -year class plan of the department in which you plan to major. I'm being ... I just presented some intercultural communication challenges in the ... desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  , laughing and having fun that I can’t help but smile and be thankful for so many blessings that God has given us. Even in the midst of MIT, I kinda ... stuffing than I care to count. Personally, this is also my favorite night of

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  base of the lamp in wood, I knew I wanted the body to be metal. My first ... materials, so in the midst of my design crisis, I whipped up a sample ... lights and turned my lamp on. All in all, I enjoyed the process of this

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  version of Nutella: In sum: there are a lot of things you can do at MIT ... name is Jess, and I graduated in 2010. That doesn't mean I'm not allowed ... lots of ceebujen (fish and rice). And I got to film it all happening

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT ... was in the mood for milk.) ABOVE: Pouring myself a nice big glass of 2 ... looking pretty busy (but in a very good way). Here's a preview of just some

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010