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  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... wondering more about Melvin", or, "I wanted to see more detail about Melvin ... the things that I strive to do is blog every week, or at least something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering ... authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... , quick to laugh, impossible to anger, and radically human-centered in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... prior to MIT, I had no clue what aspect of mechanical engineering or ... of my time in lab last semester and sophomore year was trying to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  without a formal AP class. You may want to annotate those exams in some way ... application, "Please keep to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 ... the online application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  World’s Largest Collection of Brains The new Brain & Cognitive Sciences Complex opens tomorrow.

  

  start-up energy of the 150 or so biotech companies in Kendall Square. So close to one another and to such neighbors, researchers in the $175 ... opportunity to collaborate in ways that promise progress on some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  plot. Stagecraft has to do with everything in a play excepting the actors ... things give the audience an easy way to tell when changes in time, location ... "fairies," "pirates" versus "ninjas," or "Hork-Bajir" versus "Andalites." In

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... someday own one or stick to the idea that they are too much space and ... philosopher. I know two or more MIT professors who I would love to be, for their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Borne back ceaselessly into the past I've had a week! The whole earth was created in a week!

  

  building to MIT, because nobody will ever use your name in referring to it ... swim faster in syrup or water, hiked five miles, and jumped from a 165 ... 't it? Sorry about that, chief. Basically what happened is that I had to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  it’s only a matter of time a post for the deferred

  

  have chosen to defer it…" The reading voice in my head faded out, disappointment rapidly setting in. I refreshed the website a couple times to make ... found out that I hadn't made it to finals in extemp, which felt like yet

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  , I want to see who is interested in demo-ing a Fitbit for the remaining ... period of beach-side relaxation or visit home in which one gratefully ... . However, a closer inspection points to a significant variance present in day-to

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  refers to the desire to succeed in or achieve something, especially things ... hang out with new people in my department. When it comes down to it, I ... again, without a need for always trying to better oneself — in essence

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where In The World Is The Nance Effect? He returns! He returns! He returns!

  

  life-long endeavor and that it's cool to go back to school! In future ... Where in the World is The Nance Effect? That, my friends, is the million-dollar question. Suffice to say I am back and I have lots of advice

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  and relative warmth is here to stay. In this final quarter of my time ... Court still has a downward slope in the middle, which was meant to be the ... in the Infinite tunnels: liquid nitrogen containers chained to the wall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Admissions Decisions Now Available Online News about the 2011 Regular Action cycle.

  

  the class to come. In the meantime, we have provided three "open threads ... : decisions.mit.eduYou can log in using the same username and password that you use to log into your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  can be doing in the meantime: Making a list, spreadsheet, or Google ... Test, ACT Plus Writing, or TOEFL; and 2 SAT Subject Tests: one in math ... interview with an MIT alum and ask you to write about your experiences in some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  enrolled in FPOPs) to campus (or elsewhere, like Yellowstone -- any blogger in that one, want to write about it?) four or five days early for ... 't line up properly; your workload is far more than you're used to or should

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009