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  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  this mean great things in Kevin Rustagi's future. I would endeavor to ... about MIT the instant I got my acceptance letter (deferred, got in regular ... , couldn't I just give it to him, would he take it? Now??? Why yes, Ben

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Drawing from Life "is that the boldest stroke you can make?"

  

  this "old" sketchbook, which I had started in 2019 (that's four years ago ... time I've drawn in this sketchbook. During life drawing sessions, a ... during the session. I often think about what my life would be like if I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 28, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  candidates. Would this produce a lesser class? The link in mihcal1's post ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article ... were right in our decisions? What made us think our decisions would be

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  been sitting in my drafts box since. However, I still believe, fervently ... us a happy pi day, and I realized that today was the day, and in t ... glorious day, and it is cold in Boston, but I still find it beautiful outside

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  how dorm structure shapes social life in more ways than i can count, actually

  

  lived in EC, and my experience likely would have been different had I been ... —these are just my opinions, and even though I'm a senior, I've lived in East ... mates whenever I enter and exit. In the renovation, the Burton and Conner

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... hour traffic), I picked a direction randomly and ended up in Scarsdale ... 're ever in Scarsdale, Seven Woks makes some great Moo Shu. I'll pause here

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  some small distractions to help with many weighty things

  

  good things i have seen  recently, in no particular order at all. come ... ? i didn't even know disney made songs that weren't in movies! bill ... are a lot of bad things in this world, but there's a lot of good too. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand ... jump every ten or twenty beats, the climax had 27 jumps in a row. i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  ! Nice to meet you! I'm Keri Garel, class of 2010, and in the blogger world ... post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said that I was Senior Haus; I was president in 2008, ran Steer Roast in 2009

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  my interest in the arts, so I thought I would make the most of my day ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... by his drawing, "Central European Time." I thought I would be able to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  flows through his veins. Me? Raymond Tran? I haven't played chess in years ... 't phase me. But I know it hurt him. From this he would never recover. His ... months I have been secretly training in chess with hopes to beat Aidan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  hours of karaoke country music later, I was in New York's Chinatown. There ... had hoped that both of us would win (Mitra first), and then I would have ... actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  by vibes. I avoid listings IN ALL CAPS because they seem [annotation ... 't get that in California. I should talk to my manager about the things ... support systems[/annotation] in my life, I tell HR the next day that

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  apparently caused my neck to stop working in a neck-like way (I would post ... derivatives involved. (I feel like noting in here somewhere that, thanks to most ... my satisfaction, I headed by the Chemistry Education Office to hand in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  college counseling position in Providence, RI.  While I am no longer an ... he was saying, and I certainly didn't think about the ways that I would ... probably continue to check in periodically (as long as I am permitted to do

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among ... Sentimental Post: December 16, 2004 In what would become his trademark, this is ... , and EC" The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  out." He turned to the other proctors. I took ten steps in the ... in the next couple of weeks :) A final note: the house I’m staying in has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!

  

  Wesomeness that is MIT...As I would do right now if I had the chance to - high ... ?!??!!?" and "wow, just wow..." I guess I was more focused on being there "in ... balls wasn't an accurate representation of my CPW (I only went in there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2010