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  Blast from the Past

  

  much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... . Luckily, I managed to jot down home of the highlights: How to sleep in ... - anyone who passed by was forced to blow up a balloon or two or 75. We

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  you who get in will get to come to CPW. And some of you might have already visited overnight. You'll get to stay with a student, or a house (during CPW, if you stay in a fraternity, sorority, or independent living

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  exciting College Adventures™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at ... . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... others weren't for me or that I wouldn't have time. I was in this chaotic

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  decided that I'm just going to write about everything I'm interested in ... where you had to send text messages to the phone number in the title, a ... whether or not I wanted to write for the next hunt. I realized that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  a little self control to not literally gasp. I will stress that in my ... not only happy working with or under, but also incredibly privileged to ... who had the courage to speak out, but were silenced, or simply not

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I ... to Not Choke” sign in the faces of boba-slurping patrons. I love the straightforwardness of New York. In a subway station en route to Ben's house in West

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  , experts in their field. One area that seems to be taking off right now is ... in the MIT 100K competition in 2006. We got to the semi-finals and then ... visit. How has your MIT education influenced/helped you in regard to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Out of the lab and into the internet Confession: I actually listen to music from the movie Ice Princess. I'm not even kidding.

  

  I know well in MIT graduate programs are cheerleaders or former ... 't considered for graduate work at MIT, is this true?" In lieu of responding to ... might change... hell, you just might want to be able to live in a new

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  your dorm room or talk to anyone in real life?  Then this latest MIT ... have a conversation in real life.  All you have to do is follow these few ... final was to compete in a Top Gun shooting competition. ...I didn't win

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MacGyvering Bacon-tine’s Day decathlon brought to you by a paperback, a sledgehammer, and a scooter

  

  flattened, we naturally decided to indulge in a little Twilight bashing ... inevitably tore in half, relegating us to the simple luxuries of book ... tendency to sit fascinated for hours by the refraction of light through pens

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Bloggerduction a challenger appears

  

  they're interested in something, it seems to imply that they know a ... Hi! I'm Qiaochu Yuan. That's "chow-chew," as in food and a thing you do with food. You'll probably never need to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  . When I was in high school, our English teacher wanted us to write essays ... capital (as her aunt suggests she do), she is refusing to participate in ... bearable for these people to live in a socially stratified city, with all the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Full Reading Day So far you're all awesome, of course.

  

  camera phone here at the library.) I sit in the same chair every day and try to look mysterious so that other people in the library will think I ... this library, because I'm somewhere in Texas, or Jersey, or California

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ultimate Recognition You probably don't know what that is.

  

  not see it pay off in the way you expect, or hope. It's very painful ... this mistake infinitely many times in the past, continues to do so now, and probably will be unable to avoid doing so in the future - I don

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  assignment asks us to examine ethical questions raised by, and in the context ... exceptionally relevant article by Turkle in Wired Magazine, and I encourage you to ... to conduct yourself in a legal, moral manner away for the first time

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... on David Bowie's "Space Oddity." Everyone in the room sang along to the ... important to this story.) Someone called us about thirty seconds in and said

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  year, the San Jose meeting is likely to be the second or third largest ... looking to hire MIT students. Getting stuck in traffic on the 101 Freeway ... to catch up on questions and other business here in the blog over the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  milk. The fermented horse milk seemed to be a hit or miss among travelers ... schools in an American or British format. Sure, there were plenty of schools ... would talk amongst themselves or ask the teacher a question in Russian or

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  existing in this spot. Sometimes, I got to help others. Sometimes, I got help. Both helped me grow. I also got to hone in on some stylistic choices that ... : This is mostly due to working with upperclassmen in Office Hours. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021