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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 ... penchants. This is a common misconception. For what all of these millions of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass ... a trumpet, here's a picture of a trumpet: They're about the same ... ridiculously gigantic plate of fish + sweet potato fries + calamari EVER

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  ridiculous number of TV shows. It's been fabulous! The test itself was pretty ... feeling a little bummed at the end of the test :( When I went into lab later ... would have studied for the MCAT differently. I thought I'd share some of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe ... grocery store, in July. As for running, I don’t have many pictures of that

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Leadership Training Institute My first guest blog!

  

  One of the things that I try to do here is to write a little bit ... Relations Director of LTI (Leadership Training Institute) - which I've also ... International - like spreading LTI to Mexico), and one of the reasons I joined is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Making the Switch: Chapter 2 Making new friends at MIT

  

  In the first installment of "Making the Switch," Melissa '11 asked ... starts. i open the door to the quad only to see that none of my roommates are there yet the bottom bunks have all already been claimed. so of

  • by Bryan
  • April 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  city (that too in India) I missed out on lots of competitions and science ... diversity." I have huge feet, as you know. One of my favorite childhood ... applying for MIT, and then discussed some aspects/adjectives of this match

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  sorts of applications, from real-time digital signal processing to high ... lecturer. 6.2050 was one of the most demanding classes I’ve taken at MIT, but it has also been one of the most rewarding. In just a few short

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in alphabetical order (yes, I cannot pick one) from each of her albums and will be ... ’t Blame Me vibe of songs. The live performances for these songs were

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  , but it's got a pretty good cabinet setup, with plenty of space for all ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  you read most of the text. Choices that aren't listed don't matter ... through the events of a Friday. The game starts at midnight and continues ... did not pick myself. Most of the story proceeds through a linear path

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... ). So if it helps, think about all the other EA applicants, thousands of them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020