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• Blog / Advice

  How does one write a first post? This probably isn't the way...

  

  was tasked with writing an introductory blog. He spent months trying to ... —drafts that never made it past the first sentence and exist in a folder on his ... initial goal was a tad ambitious if not dramatic. With this revelation in

  • by kellen manning
  • December 12, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  Dhabi from the sky- a city in an actual desert:   And I was home ... ="1000"] Badminton[/caption] The Glass Palace in the Lalbagh Botanical Gardens in Bangalore was used to host flower shows in the 19th century

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  , News Office October 18, 2006 The Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies will present an evening with Iranian graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi on Oct. 23 in the Stata Center's Kirsch Auditorium at 7 p.m. Marjane

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  made their own app to pay for someone else to wait in food lines for you ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty evening air. Hot like Vegas (where I flew in from), but much more humid. I

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  ! He has an AMAZING voice, and dances without a care in the world in many ... Wait For Me (all in the playlist linked)!    Clearly, what we go ... We are in our senior year of college [annotation note

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

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  . I was taking a bath (not really sure why this detail sticks in mind ... head in. Lisa: Anna, does being born on Halloween mean that you're a ... accused me of witchcraft, I was a sophomore in High School, tutoring a seven

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  nicely for it.  I also met my wife thanks to MIT, when we both lived in DC ... leave for college, almost all the days in your life that you’ll spend with ... In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  your robot as an individual, especially for beginner builders it ... Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  designed an arcade machine for a hospital." D'oh! So close, yet so far. 11 ... panelist, and did an awesome job talking about MISTI and his experiences in ... hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... any one thing. If you happen to be looking for an overview of a million ... from way back in February, which are back with a vengeance (although

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... in my life i understood what the narrator of looking for alaska must ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  on a drum) for an extended period of time every week. That's about half ... In case you are like me and still feeling somewhat Christmas ... Professor Patty Tang, who did her PhD in Senegal while studying sabar and has

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Two Things Just a quick update

  

  1) I'm going to be taking a 2.005 test in about an hour. Wish me luck! 2) The Prudential Center is flashing blue and yellow. . . does this mean snow tomorrow?

  • by Snively '11
  • November 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  You should live in Burton-Conner! What you won't see in the i3 video!

  

  I found an old clip on YouTube that I uploaded a long time ago that I somehow never blogged. One day, Adelaide '09 and I realized that we both ... tell everybody who watches this video that, if they live in Burton

  • by Snively '11
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  the class an important component in being academically able to succeed ... For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... off every day, leaving you with 1) an invariable daily sense of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  My Application Story Modified (but mostly plagiarized) from my personal blog. Enjoy the copy pasta.

  

  in, so I decided to apply early action. My dad went to MIT for ... I have an interesting MIT “story.” It wasn't my first choice school until very, very late in the game. I first started researching colleges

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he ... taking advantage of IAP being, well, independent, and is elsewhere for the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  blind spots on privilege

  

  everyone else. This, in itself, is an odd thing to say given that there is ... privilege in a year, or four years for that matter. Maybe, that’s the most ... the lack of privilege in your life and you are not responsible for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring a little life update

  

  still have a couple of friends in it, and most of the work will be on an ... bunch of code for this in MATLAB, and I spent most of the fall porting it ... Finally, finally, I’m in my last semester of undergrad. I need three

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  Even though I'm now two years out of high school, I still keep in ... time. Two of her kids are old enough to be in school now, but she ... was the alumni page, which boasts an impressive list of schools where

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011