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  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  ). If you have any ideas on how I can make this letter to President Obama ... coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a strong appeal to emotion (pathos). Sometimes he focuses much more heavily

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  , it’s not as if everyone’s going to go home, right? I thought that maybe ... break, expecting to be mostly alone, knowing that it’d be really different ... to people. It’s gotten to me. It’s not that there aren’t people around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  ? How much should I factor in money over passion in a career to increase ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... literally moved my whole life to Boston T H E  R O U T E  H O M E Before

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  to grilled cheese. Avocado? Peanut butter? Bacon? We know how to ... cheese H Entry: Creative Cooking with H Entry Learn how to survive and ... . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... to see this year's full event listing. I only had two final exams this ... the Arts Scholars to see The Tempest at the American Repertory Theater

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  team demonstrated how to strap the boots onto a horse—which of course ... , “How’s it glowing?” to resounding laughter. “We’re excited to introduce ... educational and rehabilitative game designed to help developmentally disabled

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  , stage managers, and directors to meet and talk about how the show is ... ) and it’s bound to be a good show. For me, it’s wonderful how easy it is ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How, uh, relaxing. And now, to punctuate the beginning of this week, I ... ask you, kind readers: How do you like to procrastinate?

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MIT International Or how a local Model UN conference broke molds and expectations by going abroad

  

  Time to state the obvious: the world knows MIT pretty dang well for its contributions to science. That includes the obvious disciplines falling under the term: every branch of engineering - from aeronautics, to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... pestered to dance. Every year I fight back. "No! I don't dance! Let me be the ... lose, end up dancing, and having a good time. Funny how these things work

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  About Tomorrow Good Luck Tomorrow!

  

  be occupying many of your minds, and so I'd like to offer some brief ... wants to come here. I know, I know, right? It's true though. I know if I were you and someone said that to me, I'd probably have ignored them and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a problem that requires you to use the heat equation and see if you finish ... Thursday I leave class thinking, "So that's how carbon sequestration works

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best ... has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  cheater for 1) being a senior and having more emotional things to say and 2 ... coffee when I got home so I might have been able to post mine first, but ... post for a long time, mostly over finals, when I dared to dream about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a different approach to the GIRs. Typically, freshman classes have huge ... intimate setting. How intimate? Questions I ask in ESG classes on a daily

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  (how the heck was I supposed to know what Ihrer meant? it's in some crazy ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  's collective thunder. The priest also described how the groom proposed to the ... Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... class that's showed me how to be more comfortable with my writing and take ... . It is the slice to your heel that causes your collapse. Oh, how your

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  One Day at a Time or, springing into junior year, part 2: electric boogaloo

  

  conglomerates, and I learned how to play Bananagrams and lost every round, while ... week’s worth of material and condense it. So, how’s it going to work ... situation at MIT. He’d already heard (it’s hard not to be constantly plugged

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  're teaching THAT to MIDDLE SCHOOLERS?" and "how'd swing dancing go?" and "food ... disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find ... finishing touches on my PowerPoint slides. I love walking back to campus, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012