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  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three ... can agree to because we're all human. In a world divided along many ... share in the experience. But now that I think about it, it seems hard to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  admitted, in all likelihood. I hope that you will have another great choice ... waitlist. What should I do now? If you are still interested in MIT, you ... I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... of them. I ended up having to pay for a storage facility in the area ... ordinarily store their things) when I moved back into MacG in the fall and it

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Underneath All That Polish… ...lies a few things you wouldn't want to miss

  

  -as-a-bootcamp that set in during a hellish week. So I decided to leave something ... After three CPWs and nearly two years of study here at MIT, I've gotten used to a lot of things about the Institute. And sometimes, when I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  music, so when they came to perform in Charlottesville last Sunday, I was ... up in the entrance. Curious, I stopped a guy from walking in ... down, we were back at the hole-in-the-wall bookstore; I recognized the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists ... bulletin board, of a garbage can, of a ceiling, of a vent, and of a door. I ... because 30 people are taking a picture of a paper tree in lobby 10 then I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 13, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  backstory is that in EC, the singles are big and the doubles are small. (I ... had seen so many other people do. I don't know if this is common in other dorms, but I suspect it's so popular in EC because of room size, the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  England and the first term is half way over! I really can't believe it. The ... -togethers. I see the other two MIT students in Course 1 (civil engineering ... , the weeks are dragging on. But it's okay because I'm here with 24 other

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  the deadline? And in the same envelope? Am I in trouble? Let's take the ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your ... documents, and I hope you can understand why. Please be patient. If the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  tech in general, was for me. But as this program concludes, I can say ... you to my team, Team 12. I worked in a team of four other TNTs and two ... have accomplished so much and grown in ways that I cannot even describe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  've called more pre-frosh than I can count, though sadly about half of you were ... sisters. Upon arriving, I signed in with my name, living group, and class ... do have any burning questions about MIT, you can always leave them in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... currently in school. What do I do? Ya still gotta submit the form, even if you ... in school. I don’t have grade updates because: my school doesn’t do

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2

  

  creations in my [annotation note="No, I am not working, this is just a jo ... , food Instagram @thefrenchdormitory, where I can at least pretend that my ... in taste, texture, and salinity. Here I recreated another one of Thomas

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  Hello Friends! I am back with my biweekly vlog update, quite late because I am lazy have been preoccupied with my schedule. I've been ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  bit."]ARES[/annotation] for fun. When I was in high school, everyone I ... , suggesting I put triangles in the black and white spaces in the "W","X", and "M ... serif). So since I couldn’t change it, I made alternatives. In fact I

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... CourseWare version of the same lecture that I witnessed on Friday: In ... Christmas gift wrap. I mean, economical gift wrap. (Bonus challenge: In the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... Maryland in our hard-earned car to go grocery shopping. I wasn't exactly ... Sliced Roast Beef [mmmm roast beef] Applegate Sliced Turkey [in case I

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  , hard-to-reach views (can you guess where in Simmons this was?) If I ... , I am cool enough to now say, “I am enrolled at MIT!” In fact, I just ... doors in the infinite corridor until I found: After the chat group

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Art of Waiting how to burn some time

  

  . I remember when I was in your shoes. Back in the day, I had to do it not once but TWICE because I was deferred the first time around in ... reading so can't say too much yet, but it deals with hard topics in a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  nailed a back handspring first time since high school; I can flip ... schools; and in the process I've completely forgotten what was supposed to ... 've got all this writing momentum, I pulled up this particular work in

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008