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  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of bonfire. You may even think that you know the reason: the celebration of Guy ... grew out of the ancient battles for Anglicanism, but rather an even more

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  's where you'll find me over the course of the weekend... the events in bold ... registration desk on the second floor of the Student Center (La Sala). You all ... -Center. There's a bunch of stuff I want to check out in the 5:00PM - 8:00PM slot

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  February(ish) Updates and Notes aka my life in photos and haikus

  

  photos that accurately summarize my current state of existence: The ... -students. The top photo is a week in the life of Junior spring. I’m currently in 5 ... .0001: Introduction to Python Six triple O fun Is brainwashing you to join The cult of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s like finding candy in your pocket… MIT in the media - Always a treat.

  

  getting desensitized to the negative connotation of procrastination so that ... Occupy protesters. And that's the story of how procrastination doesn't get your work done - at all. But it does bring up points of interest. The

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  welcoming our new bloggers! baby bloggers? baby bloggers!!

  

  starting, with so many cool things to be learned; and as of today, the world ... walking to the end of the world (in Minecraft), has strong opinions about ... biggest fan of Charlie Brown in the world, and will nerd out about

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^(n+1)

  

  kind of letter instead of that portion of the application, just outlining ... material?" I'd say it's best to try to get things in by the beginning of ... the name of your interviewer this summer. Most interviews are conducted

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 31, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Failing and perfectionism

  

  by itself was really boring. The challenge of winning a bunch of stuff ... to how someone confronts failure. The goal of high achievement is to ... ; The goal of perfectionism is more similar to a survivalist mindset. If

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 12, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Vicennial wikipedia says this means 20th

  

  around the desert, drinking up the sight of [annotation note="the tall ... the pages of a book I last picked up in middle school, on a certain ... . Stuck in the confines of my house, the familiar tracks in my mind. I like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  down my French Word of the Day and then Korean Word of the Day, and then ... , why CAN'T I be on the other side of the world during IAP? Why MUST I do something completely career-related (the career part of which I'm not totally

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  on the turf of knowledge, or begin life as blindly wandering, major ... impeded the ambulatory progress of David Karger, resident god of algorithms ... My friend Stephan’13 exploded into Internet fame over the holidays

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  sophomore takes during their IAP since it leads into 2.007, one of the most ... figured I should let you know how things went. Let's talk about some of the ... used lathes to turn and tap a plug for the end of our bottle. A tool

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / Events

  1 / How to MIT again?! An expat returning home to the 'Tute

  

  FPOP, and through Rush, I would meet a good number of the incoming class ... ![/caption]     An Evening with Champions The second week of school, I ... . Organized by Harvard undergraduates, this was the 48th rendition of the show

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 29, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  happy, and enjoy the small distractions of life. Graduating high school is ... and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pilot The first video in a vlogging experiment

  

  this is the least awkward of the 3 thumbnail options YouTube gave me. It ... To start out the new school year, I'm going to try including more fun ... seriously. In an ideal world, I'll post one of these videos every Sunday night

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  always feel like this, you get the idea. One of my favorites of the blanket ... nice to have concrete answers to the phenomena of my life. It got to the ... book superhero, I’d boiled down the significant events of my childhood

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  up! Of all the food I’ve been eating, 78% has been free. Of all the t ... of my important due dates for projects next week (the second full week ... and bounds. Hopefully by the end of these four year I will have found a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [guest post] time passes from spirit island a board game that i picked up 3 years ago is now my life

  

  really got to know [annotation note="cj: the amount of times i am mentioned ... , had the goal of playing all the board games on floorpi before he ... liked it a lot, because the day after, he dm'd me this message: of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  = verb for using the lathe to machine something) a pin for the pedalbox of ... plain left blank...but the cool part was that I got nearly 100% correct of the parts that I answered- including the ones I sort of blundered my way

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  ?" I kind of just stared out the window without saying anything. I felt ... month after this. 2. The second time was in my freshman year of high school. No one actively caught me or anything of the sorts, I had just had

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a kid out of a public high school in Salem OR, was the difference in ... day here over a year ago I've heard some of the most entertaining bits

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008