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  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  to a prompt. You are not your résumé. Specifically for the MIT ... weren't MIT, I settled into a groove of writing for the college ... similar to flow. I keep the objective at the back of my mind for a few days

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  . Lights (Dan Perez '10) "As a starting point for the lighting design, I was ... seemed like a great foundation for the aesthetic of the alternate United ... actors to be displayed against. All the set features are there for a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  for a "wildcard" from the Startup Alley to pitch and compete on stage ... the story. Tickets were a couple thousand dollars. But, my friends and I ... alert as soon as the next round of tickets were announced. A week later it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  for dessert. Here, Linda is serving me a handsome helping of the Vanilla ... of a frat boy, but I may go to a few events for the free food ... , along the Charles River in a place called Cambridge, a bright

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  independent country, and, in the process, to create a pretty awesome place for ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Very, Very Important News That title is written to tantalize your RSS readers.

  

  Hi folks, Today was the 8th day in a row of selection committee ... that has been on my mind for the last half hour and will probably consume me for the rest of the night... Seth and Summer are back together

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  from the Boston Symphony Hall audience. He went on to explain that as a ... . Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s ... ’t heard of him he’s responsible for Fiddler on the Roof, Jaws, Star Wars

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedules are up!

  

  schedule for the next term, but this takes place several months before a term ... , because individual class schedules for the fall term came out. (My very ... 's a requirement for biology majors to graduate, and I'm a senior this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  room on that same floor. I saw 2 fellow pre-frosh for the 3rd time at a ... track this far through the August sun must’ve cared greatly for his guests ... Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  favored over candidates from outside the region. It made for a nervous 1 ... desensitizing force, for me. Ultimately I remember only a few subsequent rejections from the past decade and a half. After graduation I returned to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My ... experience. As an engineering student, I couldn’t ask for a more

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  project class has regular checkpoints for a project: either the same project ... for a revised version. Or the deadlines will divide the semester into ... set classes Outside of the science GIRs, it's relatively rare for a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  interwoven. For him, even the laws of motion and the path taken by a ray of ... popularity of Newtonianism in the 18th century had opened a window for women to ... think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  major works takes up all of the time allotted for a standard ... , 6, or 18. This is how I imagine the career fair going for my friends ... the career fair began for me (and everyone else I know who isn't course

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  up for the big size, now there's a "little big book" weighing in at ... For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I ... , I figured the holiday season would be as good a time as any to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  on being seen ...and why that might be important

  

  worked for the last several years, I have a much better appreciation for ... I have been absent from the blogs for the better part of eight years ... provided sound counsel to my young charges along the way. There are a number

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  hall, and there was a line at the door. I hope you get the idea. He ... coordinates and a date. The coordinates, it turns out, pointed to a park here in Cambridge and the time was September 23rd, 2007 at 2:38pm. It became a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  My Summer in Japan Tokyo, Spaceships, and Lots of Ramen

  

  place home for a bit :) While I appreciated the heated toilet seats and ... for crashing into the moon."]hard-landed[/annotation], their success in ... working on ispace’s Mission 2 attempt as a part of the [annotation note="A

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was ... as life as a biological process or an experience. This is the example ... MIT freshmen for them to answer in a single semester: “How would you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  was a slobbery, deflated mess on the floor. For the sake of writing a ... sometime before the New Year’s countdown. Thinking it was just to wish me a ... influenza. 1. Shock For the duration of the phone call, I don’t remember much

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018