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  An End A whirlwind.

  

  that we were really too tired and should just find a place to sleep. As ... was wearing a nice dress and make-up and practicing my talk in the ... standing in front of a few dozen professional astronomers (+ Carl and his

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn in New England The trees explode with color.

  

  I've been lucky enough to be able to enjoy autumn in New England recently. For those of you in regions that do not have four seasons: autumn is a wonderful time of year; the air is crisp, the foliage is exploding

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... studies to focus in excess of 80-100 hours per week on building their ... older. This stands in stark contrast to our team which welcomed 25 new

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester ... pm: you go to a cafe with K, a friend of a friend who asked to hang out ... have a positive impression of) everyone in the room 7pm: you get free

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Blending In (Guest Entry) Of singing, eating, and shopping (sorta)

  

  -oriented school. Ohohoho, boy was I in for a surprise! The first night was ... ...the wonders of Youtube. Here's a photo of them in concert later on in the ... in Lobby 7 on Saturday and watched a co-ed group: It was just really

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... and use their opinions to make a final decision--Yes or No--on whether ... remaining 14,000,000+ say. To plug in the precise numbers, given a pool of 14

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  crowd. In a room designed to hold 12 we stuffed 25 students and a video ... , TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso ... that my seat could be used as a floatation device even though the entire

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  “Other duties as assigned” is a concept well-known to admissions officers; it’s a catch-call term used by employers to encompass all the ... . During CPW, a thousand prefrosh descend upon the MIT campus to participate

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  , and a wireless mouse that used a wired mouse that connected to a computer that sent info to a 3D printer that had a wired mouse taped to its ... in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  , wearing them like badges because I want to feel special in a school that ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  fact that I get to spend six hours a week in a class taught by Junot Díaz ... 't changed, though. I went to FredFest (a concert in the East Campus courtyard ... started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  ; I had a CV PSET that I had not yet started, and I ought to have been ... first time in a while, was crisp and cool, the temperature at which you ... clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?

  

  using parts of our class discussion as research for a follow-up to his ... [Drown], a collection of coming-of-age short stories set both in Santo ... optimization. It's a nice change to be reading and writing so much, but we

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  one wants to waste the precious A/B/C/No Record grading). They are, in ... filming takes a ton of work (more on that in a separate post). Our video was ... in an actual YouTube educational video, as a host. Here a preview of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  once in a while. OK I may be an Internet addict, but I am not alone. According to a recent New York Times blog titled "The Rise of the Toilet ... aware of this problem in my life until our trip to Seoul in my last week

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  chain saws were used to dice the branch up. They did their work ... more than a spattering of sawdust. So these were the events leading up to ... : ----------------------------- Construction in Back Alley Next to Bexley Dorm Hello, I'm wondering how long

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

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  , more than ever, it is so easy to save the life of a child in poverty for ... do for a living in order to free yourself and make more fulfilling ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  didn't have the energy to fall apart in front of a near ... looking for a copy of that, because I wanted to find comfort and familiarity ... started in the fall, it made a tremendous difference to walk into a gigantic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  technical oral presentations and exposure to communication skills useful in a ... their poster is about. I was intimidated at first to be in a room full of ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to participate in real research with

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a ... weren't explicitly forbidden (and because who'd want to piss off such a ... that Alex was going to MIT. In light of this complaint, MIT and Cornell

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011