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  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool things that it was completely worth leaving home a week early. I arrived at MIT a week early to participate in FUP, or the MIT Freshman Urban

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in mind. 1. The third-largest city in Ireland is called "Limerick" 2 ... could get more than a dozen members in the band! This was the first day I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  can happen if you just feel it in your bones. I for one see shapes that ... written on paper, and I see colors that personify emotions in ways words ... guitars and powerful vocals. I went there in October, and just two weeks

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Happy International Women's Day! I've talked before about how MIT ... in the United States. Over 200 of the top young women mathematicians in the country come together to compete for $49,000 in prize money

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Digging through old bookmarks time for some blasts from the past

  

  window into the kinds of things I was interested in three to five years ago ... references to this come up again and again in wildly different places, and I ... education. I think after reading this, I saw selection bias more frequently in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Courses and Stuff Mason '10 made up the title, blame him.

  

  : describing the classes you're taking in a given semester. Well, now that I'm a ... ...well, now you have. I chose to do my concentration in Theater Arts. This will ... ??? Hopefully I'll be able to add this class as part of my newfound purpose in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  , sexual harassment. Like many, I’m heartbroken over the shootings that happened in Atlanta recently. I’m heartbroken as an American citizen, but also as an Asian woman. It feels like a brutal knife to the heart in a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Your friendly neighborhood webcaster ignore if you can time travel within your own lifetime

  

  ? I swear that’s the last time I’ll ask, mostly because very soon CPW ... the wonders of MIT I planned to register for” to “that potentially life-changing event I wished I’d registered for but missed the deadline because I

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 25, 2010
• 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…

  

  community. I've been sitting in on meetings, just for fun, and it's been a ... live in Simmons Hall, which I like to describe as living in a *very* nice ... DAY IN THE LIFE by Technique: I am the Managing Editor for Technique

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  . Plus, I'm sick of running, I'm not in such a hurry. I don't even know ... You can't take any other classes in the Aero/Astro department until ... 'Are you sure?' (Read more about the trials of the course in the intro

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  was playing as it occurred to me that i have no friends in this city ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... reading americanah. everyone in the book is a caricature and i love it. a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  sprinkle the remaining photos in somehow.) ;-) I was dining in Providence ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... terribly interested in the core freshman classes -- I mean, really... my life

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  know I did, and I'll see you in August for orientation! ... BOOM! CPW is now over and dear sweet gummy bear in the sky was it exhausting. I don't think I went to bed before 5 every morning. From BBQs to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  raising at least $400. In general, I'm not that great at fundraising because ... Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One wonderful day I might just make it, after all.

  

  and thus oxygen mass transfer in E. coli fermentation, and I'm doing it ... forwarded to us is in German. And, uh, I guess I don't really understand ... First of all, good afternoon to any visitors I might have who are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  back side over and over again in a routine that might resemble love. i ... traffic, just the crackle of my wheels on asphalt. And when I go in the ... everything that is usually in shadow; I once saw an old man holding a bouquet

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Teach ‘til you drop, then draw the Mona Lisa while blindfolded. 573 students, 10 hours.

  

  littered with sonic screwdrivers and Tardis t-shirts. I managed to slip in a ... , Anna! As you can see from the schedule, I taught most of my classes in ... scheme of things. We started in the modern era of astronomy, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  from the pictures I posted in my entry about painting, our beds are ... weather is still nice) during naptime. =) I have two friends who live in the ... sending an email to the address in the banner. I'll do my best to either

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to ... Look at this: And this: And this: And maybe even this: I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Meetings with Brown & Yale in Texas and Arizona Learn about three great schools at once in the American Southwest.

  

  Brown & Yale Universities for meetings in Texas and Arizona. Details ... seniors) to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school ... visited Northern California, Nevada, Illinois, Michigan, and Ohio in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2008