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  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  birds, took my first creative writing class, and learned how to make a ... conservatory for classical guitar next year. I can't even begin to tell you how ... to many of you. But it's true) Being a nerd, I did nerd things. I read

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Listing It All Out you get a list and you get list and you get a list

  

  LA but again rip COVID How To Feel Better After A Crappy Midterm Go ... Places To Take A Nap On Campus, Ranked Barker Library - The pin ... a few months I felt like they needed to be cleaned so I stopped taking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  West Coast Trip Report some work, some play, lots of nerd stuff

  

  . '12 and Danny B.D. '15 before flying to LAX that night.   Not ... breakfast while rfong presents how to eat it; also, an Anastassia selfie of ... -14: Bae-Area Bloggers I'll arrive this afternoon, try to grab a quick coffee

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Alpha Delta Phi Presents – Mic-Check [by Susan Shepherd '11] If you're looking for a talented actor, or poet, or singer,…

  

  time to the music. Next, Sam played an original piece entitled "Not Too ... Phi sent out emails to all the dorm lists urging artistic students to ... to read, or an essay, or a song they had written, they would be

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  have time to calculate one more process. And if it's not below $9/lb, we ... , to say the least. I've also been out of town quite a bit thanks to the ... . But that's another story for another blog entry. What am I going to

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  doors to Boston University’s Metcalf Hall. Along with the hundreds of others who were in line, I anxiously awaited the chance to hear ... his work in microfinance: Basically, banks give small loans to poor

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  I experienced at CPW was just amazing. How can one compare an MIT education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... ’Hare airport was delayed, and it took over fourteen hours to get to

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  post is NOT, in fact, about aliens: Bell's "noise" turned out to mark the ... to the pulsars that I do my research on. Finding a pulsar is not easy ... perfectly matches what you would predict. So, now you know how to find a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  recognize that the color of a sweatshirt should not cause me to hate people ... though, because I find these very rodent-core photos of me not trying to ... surreal moments that have happened while I've been here. *** Cut to the

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Interview with a Mystery Hunt Winner An interview with Kat '10, a member of Palindrome, last year's winning team and this…

  

  bombers, we were already starting to brainstorm ideas for Hunt2008. "How did ... learning how to belly-dance, and now I have 2.670 and I haven't really had a ... , accidentally saw Juno three times." (This is not a lie. I only meant to see it

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  the athlete as "one willing to take on a challenge" and who is "not ... from my mission and can't remember how to play baseball?" Though that ... their professors as they try to strike it rich at blackjack by counting

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hodge-Podge Random things from a random guy.

  

  guilty about having not blogged in a little while. I think I may have said ... very little awake time during the week and there isn't a whole lot to ... application, the Celtics riots, the Red Sox game I went to, yadda yadda yadda

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  'm not even supposed to have a big role, but somehow I keep saying yes ... prefrosh are here, so I need to put on a smile, because MIT is supposed to be a happy place, or at least, that's the lie I'm going with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  italy research in pompeii

  

  , analyzed samples of roman concrete, learned how to mosaic and fresco, visited ... learned how to beg for food quite effectively. The mama cat has four black ... learned how to mosaic and fresco from restorers and artists. We learned how

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 18, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... SAT. I'm pretty sure that's not supposed to happen.) Grades and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  I cannot and refuse to believe that school starts next week. I don’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  , not IN the tour. I present to you a glimpse into what the average MIT ... building toys (for anybody who is unsure, this is a good way to start the day). After working for 3 hours I decided to study for my 18.03 test that I had

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  to the method of cutting the potatoes--not because Americans are stupid ... DID YOU KNOW? According to this article, Malaysia recently made it illegal to name children after "animals, insects, fruit, vegetables or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Mind the Gap (again) About deferring admission for a year, also known as a gap year.

  

  : Gap years need not be a luxury for the rich. Some students use them to ... ,000 or more many of them would be paying for college. I'm not writing to ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  January, students are free to do whatever they want, whether that be staying ... allows undergraduates to work with professors and in research labs to ... "]UROP,[/annotation] taking cool classes or traveling. The freedom to do whatever you want is

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023