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• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  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 ... , before heading over to a celebration dinner for Jess K. '10 graduating from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 30, 2017
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  acclimated to what they need to do and how they can go about doing it, but the ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Poetics of Place Snippets from my "Critical Writing for Designers" course at school down the street

  

  the kids trudged past to their classes, and I wondered how I would have turned out if I’d gone to Harvard. (I think I’m glad I didn’t, I think I ... opportunity to cross-register at Harvard (or Wellesley, or MassArt, or the

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... happens Please note that No-Shave-November is similar to, but distinct from ... down). Anyway: My Novembeard is now 20 days old, and I am happy to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  , and we will continue looking at how to analyze projects from financial ... ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being a n00b at MIT Guilty as charged.

  

  this class to teach n00bs like me how to program.** 2. Turns out ... You may have heard people say, “I’m not _______ enough to go to MIT ... school – I was definitely of the “I’m not technology-oriented enough to go

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  assignments twice, and the only regular Athena commands that I know how to do is ... Today is Day 5, after my laptop refused to boot after turning on ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom," one to a ranch, and a few others I can't seem

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  If I were to show you the following series of pictures, how would you ... installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T wastes in one day what MIT works an entire year to save." "Somebody

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  available as well, including specialized ones where you can learn how to make ... Thursday evening. Longtime Ensemble fans are used to brilliant performances ... just wants to perform at the Duke's upcoming wedding. Last, the story

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• 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,…

  

  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 eligible to win a prize in the competition. There were three main prizes

  • by ARTalk
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Take 1.618: Film at MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] There are very few things for which I would get up…

  

  on campus, you can learn how to feed film reels into cranky old ... - should I go to art school, or should I do the "safe" thing and get a "real ... take while I could; I could always go to art school later, right

  • by ARTalk
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  , 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 ... I and II," shortened to "J-lab" (an abbreviation of Junior Lab, as it

  • 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 / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  quickly how difficult it would be to come to a consensus via sporadic emails ... , although it's only been a couple of weeks. Lots to tell you about. Fall ... close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  favor, okay? You have to remind me to enter the PE Lottery, which starts tomorrow. I've forgotten to do it for nine of the past ten quarters. Yes ... too high for me to muster. Don't you forget to enter it either, Class of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  will know how to run a database while integrating a Taylor polynomial and ... So you're flying to college. Or you're flying anywhere alone, and you ... think about all the new people you're going to meet in the next five hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  From The Midst Of Selection A recount of EA selection committee.

  

  reading your applications that most of you understand how it feels to really ... Sorry to have been ignoring my poor blog, folks! Here's my excuse... Thursday 12/1: The day I'd set aside to catch up on email, blogging, work

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 5, 2005