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  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  grew up in Valenzuela City. Its longest and busiest road is Mac ... , so when I think of Valenzuela, I imagine MacArthur. A road that is, for ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... gender imbalance in STEM fields, Women’s and Gender Studies offered up a ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  Mellon is a popular choice for CS, and that Case Western (in my home state ... other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a ... class. (I had been working in my UROP lab for a year when I took the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  in the pictures. As is MIT tradition, the ... Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... yet here it is, detached from its home of decades. x In

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  their schedule to take a couple introductory/exploratory classes in the ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It ... extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  With a record number of applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 ... category, this is an open forum for you to talk.

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in ... always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time ... this year - what's your new year's resolution? Best wishes for a safe

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events We’re Pumped For! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  

  ! Here is a small sampling of events in our dorm Next House and Other ... CPW is a very exciting time and it's hard to believe that it ... have been planning it for even longer). Here is a WIP pic!!! Next Act

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  prophecies reversing causality

  

  example is learned helplessness: in the original experiment, dogs in the ... repeatedly and the shocking would only stop if they jumped over a hoop. in such ... anecdote educators report is of children getting lost during a math class

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  As you may know, I lived in Next House as a freshman, and while it ... Residence-Based Advising (RBA). RBA is a lot like ordering a Big Mac and ... freshmen in other dorms, who get a period called Residence Exploration (REX

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  changes and preview the short answer prompts, a much larger group is likely ... clearly labeled. While there is a specific rationale for every question that ... galls me more than most. Describing ones background as a recipe is not

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  And now your feature presentation Are there still theaters that play the "Let's all go to the lobby" jingle?

  

  In a world...where engineers want to become leaders...3 students must ... three of us took in the first week of IAP. Joe, who is the Chairman of ... -night adventure in the MIT tunnels in which he surprisingly relied on a lot of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Product Design, MIT style Sometimes, lab is the best place for a dance party.

  

  graduated and went home to spend a wonderful summer outside in the sunshine ... adventure known as 2.009. This is the famous capstone class for seniors in ... assignments. The class as a whole is given a theme (last year the theme was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  pathway. I'm not sure what that thing is, exactly, but I sure learned a lot ... don't think you get how cool this is... A CHOCOLATE FOUNTAIN!! Of ... continued in her artistic adventures by finishing up a long-incomplete mural

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  thank you notes before i go

  

  lecture -- without a care in the world, with no fear of repercussion or ... -eye you when you play a video in a library without any headphones in, but I ... my comfort zone. For teaching me to relax more once in a while, to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , which is as complete a record as anything else of offbeat communications ... students their decision letters in tubes, a practice that dates back to when ... got in a room with former blogger/current producer of the MIT+K12 Videos

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Spring Concert This year's concert: Jason Derülo and Janelle Monáe.

  

  Concert. Here is a somewhat complete list of the history of MIT Spring ... : Nirvana Played MIT. Perhaps MIT's most (in)famous party is Steer Roast. Each ... Roast is a celebration of mud, meat, and music. Mud, because of the mud

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  light is broken in suite 106, is there any way a bulb could be replaced? Also, I'm not sure if three is a huge hole in my floorboards somewhere or ... the first floor with a window facing. I wonder if there is a chance that

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  state it, but in the instructions it says that "a short computation" can ... story is pretty different for each type of assignment, as shown in the ... was rare for my request to result in me getting full points for a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  dorms, at MIT. There is a narrative, I think, of fitting in to one dorm ... -- and in some ways it feels like a dream again, one that cannot be truly captured, that was never real, or only was a long time in the past. I wonder

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024