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  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  ."]acapella[/annotation] groups, only to receive a callback from just one—the Asymptones. At the ... over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... ="lovingly known as FWACC, pronounced fff-whack."]Family Weekend A Cappella Concert

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... perceive a triangle. this is a gestalt effect. we can then imagine the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  , you know, i've already spent two and a half semesters divorced from a normal mit, and i didn't want to spend one and a half more. it was a tough decision, but for some reason i feel like i already knew

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  . everything seems to be great: i'm learning a lot from the internship, there ... interns wait for someone to pick us up and take us to a welcome and orientation meeting in a conference room somewhere. we watch a prerecorded video

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  . Maybe your experiences were similar to mine; probably a lot of them were, tbh, since I followed a very typical path. In middle school and freshman year, I joined some clubs, learned a lot, and had fun; sophomore and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  well. A guest lecture from Harvard Professor Daniel Koretz provided the ... if you become too removed from the students experiencing it. As a ... , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

   recently won (!!) with a set of extraordinary women in NASA. Maia is currently ... accounts, so if you ever find yourself laughing at a funny MIT tweet, you can ... fumbling to turn off the recorder in the last few seconds. Despite going to a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  happiness springs, songs, sheep

  

  , as a result, users become separated from information that disagrees ... I wrote this email two nights ago, a little after midnight:   ... contemplated going back to sleep and worked on my urop instead. then i took a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 24, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  * footage from a few weeks ago of Nick painting a lightbulb-looking thing ... ). A month ago it looked entirely different. A month from now…. well, who ... A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  Like a great three-toed sloth awakening from a millennial hibernation ... money from a Brazilian orphanage and also kicked puppies and/or small ... considering a jar of peanut butter a meal. Yes, it's time for final exams. And

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  pictures from the trip: We couldn’t resist. A pretty typical stream in ... over to England to visit a childhood friend. I've spent the past week ... traveling I've done this summer finally reminded me of a guest entry I meant

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  already knew, but for many of you, that won't be the case. It's not a bad ... to know them a little better. If you're nice to them, they might be willing to snag a cot for you to sleep on, which means you won't have to lug

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  concentration, and I want mine to be writing! It'll give me a little break from ... has a UROP in the lab a few doors down from mine - I see this as a ... assignments, and a tangible lack of both time and sleep. Yup, second semester is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  show us that even within narrow parameters—for example, my randomly-drawn-from-a ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] It is probably a well-worn maxim that writers write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  about as far away from safe as possible. There's a ton of engineering in ... future. As a part of the class we took a trip to the Hasbro world ... ended up submitting a resume for a summer position. I got the job and

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  sympathy. I'll probably just be a jerk and say something like "I never get ... this is going? Pride goeth before the fall. Last week, I...I...I have a ... ever I willingly failed =P) and told me to sleep "a lot" and come back if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is ... gave me a quizzical look when I came home for Christmas break freshman ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  Man, it's been a while since I last blogged. I've been a bit hosed, to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... tell you about today? ICE. And I don't mean solid water. From the subject

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  That’s right, you’re sick Thank you, nurse, for stating the obvious.

  

  last night's session with a psychologist and a social worker from MIT Mental Health Services) and the like, but it's not like when a sick ... a headache? Have some Tylenol! Stuffy nose and a cough that just won

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  Cowboy, during dinner. Our GRT, Chris (basically a graduate RA), is from ... , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste ... from that latin root "plumbum," meaning "lead." So forget the world

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006