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  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... the city I grew up in) and over 3,600 companies, including 82 of the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  test in high school, I would have received a 120% and possibly a card on ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... diagrams at 2 AM in the morning*. I went to the office hours of multiple TA

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  . :-) ------------------------------------- If I would like to play for an athletic team, should I contact the coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... heavily, but in some cases yes. / Yes. I am an international student in an

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  your essay would make the difference in a decision. I wouldn't worry ... ) and Math (Course XVIII), but ultimately I graduated with a degree in ... . even if u watch translated into english ones, i would recommend u try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  paintings Edward Hopper made in his lifetime. So, when I learned that the ... ; listen to it on the Whitney website (scroll down)) “...located in the ... /social sense and in a literal climate change sense. I particularly liked the work

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  OMG. Bikes are amazing. So, I'll admit it: I'm stubborn. I like to say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  sure if it will work out this way in practice; we shall see. I would ... the top ten things I have ever read. But I digress. Sometimes in the ... great website of Scott Hughes, my professor for 8.022. I was only

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  I was in the right seat. ...Nope. I moved. In case I hadn't caused ... made it in one piece. This afternoon, I arrived at my hotel and for a few ... "LARPing". My elevator company included a guy in a full cat costume (I only

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  outside and realized that it was unexpectedly cold. In retrospect, I should ... I processed everything that happened in lab today. And I definitely ... . We had a microquiz in 6.0001 (Introduction to Python) that I didn

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  believe in me, but i have no idea why on earth they would think those things ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... because i expect to be worth a billion dollars in the future. rather, what i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  comics. Can you imagine how much time that would take?) As far as I know ... end of the week. When I was in high school, I almost started a webcomic ... superheroes and find themselves in over their heads.) I drew about five pages

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... , crunchy mass on the countertop over Labor Day weekend. I stayed in bed ... , insufficiently damp world of my room. I got in the shower around 11:30, speed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... ,000 miles prior. The cost, even at the voc tech, would've been in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as Melis's, is actually pretty helpful, although I'm not planning on buying ... past three months. The summer after my junior year I was only in the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  Cyberspace. I am also thinking about this week's topic in CMS.701, echo ... result of a personalized search in which a website algorithm selectively ... have changed in the past four years, mostly for the better, and I'm a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  in the trunk and the boy would ride with our luggage. But no! Out came ... burg, and I could count down the miles to home. I live in State College ... Vanilla and Orchid Body Wash. The Colbert Report I’ve been interested in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  : Blue is walking, red is subway, green is bus) I started off in the ... the ground, but I still got to see some crazy ducks in the Public ... as an MIT cheerleader -- and I think I won't have a voice in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... workload, I braced myself for this weekend—I knew I would be [annotation note="I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to restore an old whiteboard, mit style four years of whiteboard wear and care

  

  I would spend time at the board figuring out problems. It was also in ... dearly. My own history with whiteboards, how I use them in my life, and ... make [annotation note="i can teach anyone to make dotted lines in 20

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  demanding I finish this post in which he addressed me as "kamber", and I knew ... before finals I went to see The Arcade Fire perform at the Orpheum in ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007