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  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  that when I got my admission letter in the mail, at first I was excited ... decades afterward, once I started working in admissions - we all just ... .']with whom I became fast friends.[/annotation] In those days, [annotation note

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  so fast that I could barely keep them in the picture. Dan '08 presses ... !" Dan and I in fierce concentration, swords locked together, as Andrea '07 ... . If I had to describe pika, I would describe it as a liberal, hippie

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  , just a test review led by the TAs. I don't believe in test reviews (I ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... 's a neurologist at Mass General Hospital -- but I've learned so much in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  computing than MIT? And so it went. I got in and my dream of being some ... at it as a job... so out went Course 6 and in went Course 1. I really ... the entire duration of the trip, and at the very end I'm left in the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  year -- maybe one of the UA-connected bloggers could chime in? I guess ... Mollie would you say having skills in just math is enough to major in ... Questions about class plans Nehalita asked about class plans, and I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I ... -altering growth. Over the summer, I fell in love with the idea of building something ... in this place full of opportunities and knowing that I failed to grasp

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  . All in all, we extracted far more utility from that book than we would ... I like being around people who can creatively keep themselves entertained. This can be an unproductive quality while alone; I have a terrible

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Crafts for Ukraine~ Among other fundraising projects

  

  write something about the crisis in Ukraine, and stuff that I’ve been ... don’t have a lot of family or friends in Ukraine or Russia, so I won ... .  For context, I can comment on just how quickly one project in particular

  • by ana~
  • March 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions ... ask this. I've spent my entire life in New England. No one on certain

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  energy came through in Rambax’s performance. I loved that spoken ... [by Nathan Kipniss '14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our ... quality!) I was taking African Music this semester (21M.293, to those who

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... Corridor. The Infinite is essentially a 4-lane road with 2 lanes going in ... other lane is the fast lane, or passing lane. I drive defensively, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friendship Oh my dearest . . .

  

  TO: Elizabeth, Michael would you two be interested in presenting ... know if you would be able to drop by! Thanks I, for one, thought this ... butterflies and bunnies. I await your response in eager anticipation. Love

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  settled in enough that I don't remember what my own experience was like :-P ... talking to other prefrosh getting to know the people that I would be going ... . Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til you try it. I can't say how many

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  As The Saying About Assumptions Goes… Assume = Ass + U + Me.

  

  unmotivated. Ridiculous generalizations in both cases. I'll tell you this - I ... - but you would never hear someone in our office generalize an applicant ... : they have no business in the admissions process - in either direction

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... , so I'm going to go through them all in this entry. These are totally ... speech. I also didn't know what order the ceremonies were going in. During

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Breakfast in Paris, Lunch in Geneva, Dinner in Milan Hop on the train and check out some sights leaving France, traversing Switzerland, and entering…

  

  I set out from Paris' Gare de Lyon to continue my journey using France's famous TGV (train

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 2 electric boogaloo

  

  -shirts rained down on me much more abundantly in freshman year. I don’t think I ... absolutely sure that I had a snowball’s chance in hell of getting the position ... I intend to do GTL somewhere in Europe next IAP. Sidequest 7: Beat

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as ... nothing. I recall our jaunts around the creeks in nearby Mexico during ... . Round two came around 11pm in the form of steak tips. I can’t tell you

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked ... walked to Kendall Square Cinema to see Happy People: A Year in the Taiga.I ... Chapter 1: A Formal Account of a Fancy Feast in February. Location

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To D or not to D? MIT's Design Lab is tempting me.

  

  I included this picture in a previous blog. I was tired of working, and it reminded me of the good times at MIT. Well, in Honduras, but ... took in the Fall of 2007 about Development. It's also known as D-Lab I

  • by Kim D. '09
  • February 17, 2009