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• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  , preparing for hall rush in east campus, worrying about the activities midway ... friends, put them in my life for a day, and get them to think about it, they ... from the german word for "shape" or "form". the famous example is kanizsa

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

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  offer even if I did get in (clearly this was just an ill-planned coping ... sitting in Computer Science class and I received an email from my parents ... time gone??? I feel like just yesterday I was in your shoes, nervously

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  -controlled type you could wait for the the official letter in the mail. I'm sorry ... label for it. This label helps sort our entries into the different ... 'd been getting a lot of questions lately. Lo and behold, while looking for

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  sitting in silence for 10 minutes, could only give us “an upper bound of 37 ... with the magic number in less than half an hour: 20. From here, he wrote ... Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  in similar attire to mine, as well as a stormtrooper, a ninja, and an 8 ... (yet clean) quotes: "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can ... midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the ... , Daniel, Mitra, Allison, and Kevin in real life! There will be food (of ... 'll probably be in the Mezz lounge; hopefully I'll find out the definitive

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for ... a cubic formula for finding the roots of a cubic polynomial in terms ... use college as an opportunity to expand my horizons and meet other kinds

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  immediately thank the gods for finals week. My GRT, bless his soul, cooked up an ... Providence leaves in half an hour, so I’m in good time. I dilly-dally at the ... the ticket offices, and there’s an actual queue. I’m impatient, but in

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning

  

  probably an easy decision for you (at least it was for me.) Hopefully you ... non-profit organization (Teach for America, Peace Corps), work in a lab ... thanks to the Rhodes Scholarship, followed by 7-8 years in an MD

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday A day in the life.

  

  .111 and 5.112 are identical. Stay in 10-250 for 18.02, calculus. 1:56 PM ... night, neighbor donated book for free. 2:46 PM: Momentary reveling in ... miracle cure for back pain. Decide to go swimming. 9:58 AM: Made it to Z

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  ) has Boston had more than 1.1” of snow in an October storm or for that ... It snowed for the first time this school year yesterday! Originally, in the forecast, there was very little actual snow expected, but when I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  Dan '04 an email that read, in its entirety, "Sweet Thing --> ... When I was fifteen, in the summer between tenth and eleventh grades ... me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  labeled as “genocide,” however, the Institute was placed in an ... for the three million Sudanese civilians who now live in refugee camps ... the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  Reformed Church (though I was technically born in Detroit, the not ... best color in the box. From the ages of 3-10, my life goal was to be quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  them in!) ALL MY EMAILS YESTERDAY (interspersed throughout random times ... true; you only know us. ME: Oh, right. Every year in October, the ... behind Simmons is to walk them through Cambridge - an event that everyone I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  . I definitely had an awesome time hosting events for Burton Conner and getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  Laura Stonehill, an MIT senior majoring in Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent her summer in Venice, Italy through an informal internship ... young age and for pay in Italy. This internship opportunity gave Laura

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Eating Disorder Awareness Week – The Secret I Kept by julia p. '24

  

  in hindsight it was something so insignificant. I still struggled for ... others, but I now know that there is something for me to look forward to in ... their life. It is extremely common for someone with an eating disorder to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?

  

  that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of ... In Matt’s latest post he says that MyMIT will be up August 19. This ... in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Food? What? I may weigh approximately two pounds, but I eat as much as everyone else. All…

  

  Before I get to an actual point in my next post, let me say this: I just cooked large amounts of angel hair pasta with ground beef in black ... lack the ability to cook food in small amounts and nearly all of my

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006