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  at/around mit i've been --

  

          i've been spending a lot of time ... for the quietness of not-city sounds). i've been spending a lot of time ... trying to stay caught up: bad news (congress voted to kill a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  freshman spring in which today is the first day of spring

  

  Is it already the seventh week of the semester? To be honest, I ... you won't have a new pile of things to do waiting the next morning as a ... although MIT is indubitably hard, much of the difficulty is self

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leslie Jones Was Here and I Saw Her can't believe I haven't posted about this yet

  

  A couple of months ago I got an email saying that Leslie Jones (from ... pics for proof At the end of her show (which was great, as expected), she came down in the audience and made fun of people for about twenty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  huge fan of joy's work ever since i read her blog post on inclusive ... had the distinct privilege of chatting with her last week and we had a ... social robots lab. And some of the projects I did there involved computer

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was ... at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch Ceri on SciShow! teenage mutant YOUTUBE NERDFIGHTERS

  

  Longtime readers (i.e., those of you who didn't first tune into the ... went in front of the camera to nerd-fight SciShow creator Hank Green as part of a science quiz series. I watched it and found equal parts

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... struggling with bouts of illness for the past month or so. I'm not sure what

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor

  

  "No innovation without fabrication!" This is the motto of 2.007, a ... warning of British soldiers. They also got bonus points for things like ... actual competition was an entire showcase of both projects by students and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  November 1. (There is a small amount of grace period for students having ... Nov. 1 deadline. Please allow five days for the processing of all ... the ApplyWithUs site. Check your MyMIT account to follow the progress of

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  I have heard almost exclusively from fellow members of the MIT community: The probability of my vote affecting the outcome of an election is so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Transfer Decisions Will Be Released Today May the Fourth, and also your transfer decisions, be with you

  

  4th, and you should receive it seconds later through the magic of ... ), I know that this process can be a difficult experience. For those of ... . Remember, college is mostly what you make of it, here or anywhere else

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  I Wrote A Thing media and articles and no punctuation

  

  particular, the hospitalization of my friend - she is named Emily in the ... picture of me at the top of the article - it's slightly overwhelming But ... really helps me get through each week Here are some pictures of cats I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By the way, have you seen the latest ... ; This, however, does mean a few things: (1) I've dropped out of MIT for

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my spork.

  

  hundreds of disposable plastic utensils I'm not throwing into landfills, because of one simple choice. Living an examined life starts with the small things. For me, a love of wild and beautiful places demands

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 20, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... simple task or calculation could take two hours, most of those spent trying ... to doubt the days of hazy exhaustion could end. Then I got a 20% on my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  -druhdruhdrum sound of the crossing signal on Mass Ave is still audible as you pass ... faint hum of those Zamboni things which are busy scrubbing the hallways to a dull, dirt-free sheen. In front of you is the Infinite Corridor: by

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After (and During) MIT Greetings from beautiful adulthood

  

  cross! For those of you who don't know me, I'm Elizabeth. My hair is a ... Office of Digital Learning (aka ODL - the same fine folks who bring you ... things about MIT - the people, the research, the facilities, etc. - none of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas thanksgiving and warm fuzzies all around

  

  Shire, floor 4West, Next House, Cambridge, MA. This weekend was, of ... I'm able to have because of you, as well as the future I have ahead of ... 'm thinking of you and the family. I'm thankful for all the new people I've met

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 30, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A…an…uh…a cappella concert? MIT's got non-Petri dish culture, too

  

  A cappella is one of those things that is really weird to type.  It's one phrase - "a cappella", Italian for "in the manner of the church ... cappella group too - SQ, from Tufts!  They did a great cover of Macklemore

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  THE APPLICATION IS LIVE! because why bury the lede

  

  my god... it's full of words       > > > click this button to apply to MIT < < <     

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2013