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  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... reputable sources agree on the definition of a pset, there is high variance regarding the proper exact spelling of the word. Are they psets, Psets, PSets

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind ... Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  found a calling in rap. Soon the first three tracks of our (yet unreleased ... creation of the “Bra” (brownie + bar) desert, which involved some interesting ... Blink! - “the state-of-the-art light & sound extravaganza that

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  of the Institute. So even if none of us will ever have to deal with the ... freshmen) recommended by the committee, plenty of us are pretty mad about it ... a study break for members of the class of 2009 to provide feedback

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with ... of the trip. What's wrong with her? I imagine they'd think, their ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels A tour of the past 8 MIT class rings.

  

  graduation; and once, halfway through, for the unveiling of the class ring. The ... of choosing the ring committee, or "RingComm," of 12 class members, students representing different MIT walks of life. The RingComm next solicits

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  out today and the sky is full of clouds, it's dreary, all of the ... permeating everything, the dread of what is due next week. I met all sorts of ... take pictures of myself during CPW (go figure) so I stole some off of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape ... honored to be a part of the selection committee for the Research Science

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?

  

  Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... over the US! It's pretty awesome that we can find a set of these around ... spoil the location of them all! If you're on campus, see if you can find

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 14, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  1 of the 101 Quincy Market, Mike's Pastries, Giacomo's, yummm

  

  into Giacomo's this time). One of my favorite aspects of the North End ... other news: (1) I had my first test of the semester this morning in 7 ... In my last entry, I mentioned that I had a bunch of things I wanted

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  application. In the span of a lifetime, two years is really not that long. And ... . The list of internship applications I need to fill out. The morning ... 'm stuck in between the lines of my to-do list. In between my hour

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the Society of Women Engineers event as well as the HackMIT Git seminar. (Free ... wrecked in quiz bowl practice. (Free dinner: achieved) The front slide of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Events

  May the Force Be With You Use the "mass times acceleration" wisely my friend.

  

  So tonight, I'm going to watch my friend Timmy '06 and the rest of the MIT Musical Theatre Guild put on Star Wars: The Musical. I'm kind of excited being a Star Wars fan and all. I'll give my review of the

  • by Bryan
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults ... Naples who, over the course of her adolescence, learns of many deceptions ... 's pleasure. I suppose the book is more of a collection of observations about

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Making of Embrace the backstory to a gender-bending concept dance video, written by Ayomide F. '18

  

  buckled and I knocked over a jewelry box. The clatter of pearls and gold ... really beautiful. Anyway, I met CK at the very beginning of my freshman ... involved impromptu photoshoots. That same year I met the 3rd star of our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  now. The one unfortunate part of August is packing and moving. Although all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was ... you want to paint and he always says yes. Then at the end of the year

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps) It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS! Actually ... 100th anniversary celebration of the creation of E=mc2, Einstein's most

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... syntax because I really didn’t know what I was doing. Yet, by the end of 6 ... -functioning **by “I’d built” I mean “they wrote most of the code with a few sections

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  [by Xenia Antipova '13] The very first time I heard of Richard ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of girl though, she did not hear a word of what he was saying about the plot

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012