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  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  to a tune, upside down gnomes from Wisconsin sneaking into your classes ... from Sea Creatures, by Susanna Daniel, a book I'd gotten from the ... This semester has been different from anything else I've done. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  22 Tales from tEp strange sights and stranger delights

  

  . I was given one with a squid made from fractals! There were 33 other ... many different things – it was a refreshing shift from the typical foci ... , my room had four beds and a couch, all hanging from the ceiling. I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 31, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Pictures from a Semester of Classes The Sequel Society Didn't Know It Needed

  

  rode with got to the airport around 3ish. So from there we all took a ... glad to have found a way to grow from everything this semester and really ... So about a week and a half ago I handed in my last final in Johnson

  • by Richard O. '28
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  factorization on a math competition but haven’t bothered to factor it yet, hehe ... rang in the new year at home with a power outage. I’ve since relocated to ... month of January on a finance internship in New York City. Both MIT and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  deaths (the needles) from a haystack of celestial phenomena; I convened ... , and -- if you’re in a field like mine -- you can do your work from ... . Maintain a healthy personal life that is distinct from your professional

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  major takeaways: from every semester of mit

  

  time on this and not that? What is the significance of a shot from this ... when you're on a set schedule. Every day, I wake up, I work out, I go to ... how we recycle the same topics over and over again. Every day it's a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions advice from someone who’s been there

  

  grades, that shows work ethic, especially if you have a letter from your ... with other stuff. I bet that a lot of you are working on college ... living in Switzerland, I didn't really have a social life outside of work

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  What getting an education from MIT is like according to students and robo-cj

  

  Wiesner: “Getting an education from MIT is like taking a drink from a ... education from MIT is like…”. I sent a survey to an East Campus mailing list ... , which you may remember from Robo-CJ writes a college app or Robo-CJ writes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yachts, Drones, and Lessons from the Media Lab How to lose a phone in 90 seconds

  

  flying a drone is looking at footage taken from the drone afterwards, and ... This story ends with me losing my phone on a drone on a yacht on an island in an ocean, but it’s going to start with me at a desk in an office

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  -up. From mid-June to mid-August, I will be working with a professor in the ... contrast from normal coursework at MIT. In a few days, I’ll be turning 20 ... world. Currently, there are 11 branches of MISTI (China, Japan, France

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  here comes a thought on decisions

  

  most people."]'here comes a thought' from steven universe ... relate to a different thing from college admissions. but there are points ... [annotation note="i debated with myself for such a long time on whether or not i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 13, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Mischievous Anniversary Tonight Four score and ten years ago...

  

  Sunday morning, when a group of men from the old dormitory unit ... the previous fall. It was a five-story, 100-foot-wide dorm with two stairwells, situated on Ames Street directly across from the Central Scientific

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloween is the best day of the year. Yes, I recognize that it is now closer to Thanksgiving than to Halloween. Sorry.

  

  stole a wheel from the wii in the TV lounge and labeled it dcos(wt), and ... the night included a few from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the little stick ... , two weeping angels, The Doctor), a female Draco Malfoy, and Merlin (from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  East Campus, A Home *dons his historian hat*

  

  out that fire has been a long-standing love of the dorm. From the 1928 ... EC alumni from this period are very much around, and have done a lot to ... Dave D. '72, in a public email correspondence with other alumni from that

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 11, 2015
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Admissions Excavation Chris gave me a box of stuff and this is what I found inside

  

  ? (Edit: I've recieved confirmation from a couple of alums in the comments ... aerial views (from 2004) that look like they were taken from a helicopter ... !), a CPW brochure from 2003 (which made me feel incredibly young because

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Corridor. A copy of the MIT Bulletin from 1930 makes reference to the ... a trove of vintage MIT relics, everything from a set of vibrant neon ... from a drop-down menu of programs at MIT, and then in 100 words we ask

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Blog Projects

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  Alex D. '12, which was a delightful coincidence. I'd seen his name from ... , because getting an education from MIT is like drinking from a firehose ... and Bart Simpson. This is a reference to the floor pie scene from season

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  i dissected a roach *cronch* *slurp*

  

  -full roach, missing a few chunks of leg from the cat.[/caption] Setup 1 table ... ’m taking a test or something and straighten up from leaning over, the same ... creatures. They’ve nearly perfectly adapted to an urban environment, with a

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  examples of the diversity of MIT experiences. From a personal standpoint, the ... from the fall semester, which itself was a sequel to three tales of ... page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Masquerading as a Liberal Arts Student The life of an MIT student abroad

  

  am reminded that I am not at MIT. I am away from the buzz that defines ... international study abroad program, but that I also dove head first into a liberal ... problem sets, a semester spent reflecting about how an experience made you

  • by Becca H. '12
  • November 24, 2011