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• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I ... Arthur a little more than two thousand times over the course of high school

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted ... suggestion of the correlation between smoking and death. A label might read

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here ... things. (Also kind of humorous how the remnants of an 18.02 lecture are on ... and executive producer of the game Journey. Her talk reminded me how

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... the work of William Faulkner is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  there's this psychological concept, gestalt, the name of which comes ... . but in a group of three, it gives the impression of a triangle overlaid ... brighter than the background, or even closer than the black circles. of

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

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  time she crashed a bicycle in the mean streets of Boston, Ruth Miller was ... Hampshire on our dorm's camping trip. Having the option of a day hiking up ... no fear biking. In the 2.6 mile stretch of road from 77 Massachusetts

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for nothing, after all ... magazine article that one of the admissions counselors had found. The article

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... engines and ran them at the same time: [] Here are some examples of pretty ... : [] LEDs mounted on the flywheel with a battery: [] Below are examples of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major ... living groups, all of the majors, 41 varsity sports, etc. Finally, divide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  , got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... 're looking for. So this was a great school visit, despite the lack of student attendance. Alison was a wonderful host and gave me a great tour of the entire

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our FAPnomenol Start of Sophomore Year! where we recount the tale of our first week back on campus

  

  new person together, they almost always asks us at least one of the ... the time of the program, we weren’t sophomores yet because of the “conservation of frosh,” (meaning freshmen are still freshmen until the next class

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... . Mishaps aside, the inaugural mouthful of thick wild mushroom gravy slathered ... -sweet BBQ sauce that makes me want to weep honeyed, tangy tears of the same

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  (since last year.) All of the furniture has been moved to the edges of the ... paint imaginable is represented in the cluster of cans in the corner, and spare scraps of plywood lie around the floor, half-transformed into witty

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... generally go home after the first day?" Ah, a classic question: the role of ... parent: "As a mom of a current MIT student and the mom of a newly admitted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  You can’t live without clean water Alfinio's sustainable water initiative

  

  1667a.html In the summer of 2007, four Harvard graduates will go to ... link to find out more! These are the children of the town of Jazmín, the ... country is one of stark contrast; some of the best health and education

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  We have nice things on the walls And I have pictures.

  

  French House occupies the top two floors of House 6 (one of the six towers in New House), and the top floor of House 5. There are around 27 ... own bubble wrap to it. This is on a wall in the same part of the house

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of being on the Class of 2026 Ring Committee! Ring Committee, also known as RingComm, is a group of twelve students tasked with designing the Brass

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality. Most of the time, the issue was due to my own ineptitude, but the fact ... ’t want to read all of this boring stuff, skip right on over the stuff about

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  a brief respite finds me on the second floor of [annotation note ... outline the rest of my day, but a [annotation note="i've gotten the freshman ... propel myself towards my next event, i push away the cloud of uncertainty

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.

  

  training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient youself to some of the machines I mentioned, you should take a look at the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • August 2, 2012