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• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... of the day, the entire Admission staff met to prepare for our ... exciting time around these parts. It's great to be back in Boston. And now

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  would be better for other people to just write a blog for me (although ... about Things to do for the future get over imposter's syndrome ... , i just want to live in a library for a few months and read finish

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it ... have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  . If anything, we are begged to ask for help more often. To quote one ... , too. This isn't to say that you should ask upperclassmen for help all ... advice will probably be more directly related to what you need to know for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  40 minutes for an on-campus information session. I had to very quickly run through things that I normally have more time to explain. For most ... Today, I'm back in the office (but only for a day) after doing three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  , would provide invaluable clues for developing new ways to diagnose, treat ... possible to pinpoint mutations responsible for cancer. [...] "The technology ... it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG ... found biology slightly more relevant to my existence than, say, gyroscopes

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  . ---------------------------- That’s what has been hardest for me to remember. That not understanding ... ’t click for me. I had to think so much on the court I could barely move. I ... about the integral and not the rectangles for a minute. It’s reassuring to

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Marching Band Refused to Yield Band in the name of love.

  

  ." Today, 3/4, is unofficially national marching band day. Get it? Anyway, to celebrate, I was going to do an entry about the MIT marching band's slush-infested Valentine's day crusade to deliver something like 2,000 love-infested "band

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 4, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... they could to make this a success. Nika made arrangements for us to be ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  You might wonder what possessed me to go to Chicago for the month of January. The weather forecast for my first day of work. Granted, this ... contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  aspects of the artwork which are not tied to those goals. for instance ... have a more holistic appreciation for everything, and we wouldn’t have to ... - specifically, art that takes a while to experience, such as books and movies and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  't bother to calculate for the sake of not feeling old. Here he is scolding me for not blogging in an eternity...) Back to Cena a las Seis, though ... interesting. :) Ready for this? Now jump to this weekend, to Sabrosura, a

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... things that I like. First, the word "factor," which is something I like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking Forward and Backward 10 Memories and 8 Resolutions

  

  being said, I cannot wait to see what’s in store for next year. My whole ... brushed it off. However, this year, as I waited for my brownies to bake in ... resolutions/goals that I have for the upcoming year that I am striving to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 2, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Dark Side of the Moon Mi vida. Nada m√°s.

  

  plug for current students - if you want to be involved in iHouse, you can ... blogged for AN ENTIRE MONTH. tsk tsk. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. Truth is, I've been MEANING to, but I just simply never got around to it! Actually, in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  for us. I was talking to two pre-frosh who I would come to know and ... I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and drabs.   This is for people on the fence, for those who aren’t sure

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  When Things Go Wrong: A Survival Guide? Come, obtain guidance from someone who's just as clueless as you are...

  

  -epic REX disaster, I’ve decided to offer you people some advice for when your ... to bear the weight of a tough situation, even on only one leg. Ask for ... known before. I move to attack a Simmons resident. As he swings his pool

  • by Powers '23
  • September 13, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  students here had dwindled down to single digits. I logged on to take a short study break, and... This entry is going to be really spontaneous, since ... class!) decided to blog about schoolwork, I decided to pitch in my own

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  suggested forms for each week, but it was completely up to us if we wanted to ... zipped shut for I want your beauty to come from within.   Your teeth are fragments of stone that I tumbled against each other for weeks,  to smooth

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022