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  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  ; the former from Latin tangere “to touch”, and adding the prefix in-, for ... ”, which also apparently used to mean expensive. In a completely unrelated ... just means “place” or “residence”. The poet in me still wants to relate

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The ... environment, and I’ve been trying to soak in as much of it as I possibly can. So ... look like. In a year, I would be in college. I would be exposed to more

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... slightly less smooth than last time, because i had to carry boxes up three ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  warmth feelings i miss

  

  wanted to push me in. every once in a while i’d feel so uncomfortable ... . staring into the charles from the bridge brings to memory, the six of us, in a two-in-the-morning walk from mit back to warren towers, after a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  leave. So this is where things start to get strange. Well, we're now at ... hadn't been able to deny such a request all night, so we broke out in a ... The MIT Marching Band, completely arbitrarily, decided to go out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  tends to meander in all directions I’m clueless on how to summarize it. I ... involved I was in a story, the more my heart and mind seemed to tie ... -documentaries. And I suddenly knew what had happened to the characters in my head, what

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT’s Once-a-Century Party

  

  $10+ million event.  It's not every Saturday night that you get to see ... If you were in Boston sometime these past few nights and glanced ... rehearsing the lights for MIT's 100-year-anniversary of its move to Cambridge

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 8, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... -off event to the Cambridge Science Festival) What kind of free things you ask

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Toys II Using household items to save the world

  

  How are you planning to spend the day? Jeffrey Warren, a Media Arts ... , one of the MIT students who in September launched a $150 camera balloon into near space, will be photographing the spreading oil slick in

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  has to say (seriously, go read it). But I wanted to hone in on the point ... him how lucky I felt to had the opportunity to do it. My dad, in his ... want to achieve anything in life, you need to both work hard and be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  schedule regular times to see my friends, weekly or biweekly. put it in google calendar. (toons has rehearsal 2x a week) check in with my ... formally, every rehearsal) take my friends off campus (the bus to wellesley

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... 't go to MIT or go on the exchange program, do try to get over to England ... colleges, trying to find the areas used in the Harry Potter film. If you do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

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

  

  . In this blog you'll find two things: (1) my introduction to Washlava ... living in MacGregor House, I used to live relatively far from the laundry ... decided to "deep clean" MacGregor. This meant that, for the first time in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking this spring study abroad edition

  

  look like problem sets, but we do not have to turn them in every week ... variables it takes to describe a space. for example, in order to describe any ... of Curves & Surfaces i have really wanted to take a course in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  TEDxCambridge! 1. How TED talks can improve your life 2. Recently hosted and filmed right here…

  

  remarkable people, free to the world." I started watching them in high school ... we were going to host a TED Conference right in our very own Kendall ... asking who I was and why I wanted to attend. I ended up getting a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  be left with a heightened appreciation for the 4 years I get to have at ... ourselves being send with our students to a hackathon in Barcelona. It feels ... other. In Spain, my life got the chance to intersect with people I never

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... get pushed to the back of my mind during the school year. All my ... to MIT and saw MTG’s Firebringer in freshman fall. I have no performing

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  skyline, and thus love my room. When there’s nice weather out, I get to see ... of the name. Some of you may have read about me in Melis’ previous ... go way back, to high school, actually, and then to last April, when I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of the different HASS departments, which are listed here. In response to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... 5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020