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  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  ) on campus, there's a free sneak preview of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride ... readers may remember that last year around this time I attended a free sneak ... they're good ones. It's a pretty sweet deal. Next week, LSC will present

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  This morning, a productive time reading 8 (mostly excellent) applications. This afternoon, a less productive time dealing with bureaucracy ... asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Athletics

  Alive and Kicking I kick, therefore I am ~taekwondo~

  

  a defensive move, and you rotate away from your opponent and throw a ... Wouldn’t it be cool to try something new? A new sport, perhaps? Or, maybe try and improve at one of the many sports you know how to play in a

  • by Waly N. '24
  • August 3, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  more classes to graduate, exactly enough to be a full-time student, and I’m taking a fourth for fun and knowledge and hopefully preparing for grad ... extracurricular activity, and I’m hoping to spend a lot of time on it, especially

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  point, I don’t know when, a line from the Magnets chorus mosied into my ... A few weeks ago, Ayomide F. 18, better known to longtime blogreaders as our own personal Riri Williams, sent me a copy of a new video she

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  ’ll be getting to campus (there’s a free shuttle from the airport, fyi ... Note: this post has been updated from the 2016 CPW mini-guide for the ... matches visitors to hosts definitely works. Now, for us, CPW is a familiar

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  conversations about material from math class the way that a bio major might, say ... This past Friday was the MIT career fair, a huge event where hundreds ... rink, a track, and a basketball court; over 4000 students attend. It

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  November, I particularly struggled to find motivation. It's odd; a break from ... from a constant cycle of sleep, zoom, repeat. This caused my adrenaline ... happened for sure. Yet, it was mixed with a variety of other complicated and

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  art from the past few decades. Every week, we learned about a specific ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... them really rewarding, with a generally fair amount of assignments, and

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  's lingered in my mind a lot lately is from Everything Everywhere All at Once ... I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school, so I knew what to expect by the time I became a senior. Each round had

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be textually accurate, they actually stole three days of break from us, but it was still a four-day weekend."]extra[/annotation] two days of break. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  every class with a song from his iTunes playlist; today's gem was "You ... I have an interesting relationship with Harvard. Coming from MIT I have a propensity to spit upon all popped collars and finals clubs, but I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  We can do this! To high school seniors: we’re in the struggle bus with you

  

  qualified enough to get a job, and tried registering for extra classes only to ... ’s also a bit upsetting, because we distinctly remember thinking we’d never ... absolutely painful to write.  Okay, let’s backtrack a bit. We aren’t writing

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  freshman blogger, sophomore student a reflection on some new and old things

  

  away from MIT put a lot of experiences into perspective, and applying ... identity as a clueless freshman has been stripped though I have inadvertently introduced myself as a freshman one too many times. Now, I take on the task of

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • September 21, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2014…The Parent Edition Suggestions for getting the most out of CPW when you are a parent

  

  . The first question I often hear from parents is, "what events should I ... over the next few days, there are lots of things to choose from and ... addition we've enlisted the help of a great group of current students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new ... [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that emulated an ambulance siren during a rainy day, and he loved it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... delivery I ordered to arrive. The sun was out today, fully, in a way it hasn’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  didn't even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to it with them. It was described to me as a showroom-type thing ... (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  heat index today)  2) Travel. Just returned from a Brown ... hot. And I do mean very warm. As you all know we are in a heat wave right now. Not only did my bike handles melt a bit when I got on to ride

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• 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 think I've attended a grand total of one since the end of my freshman year ... 'm sure a lot of you high school seniors are. On one hand, I've had a super

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006