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  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  to :D In like November/December (which seems so long ago now), the concept of summer wasn't real to me. I couldn't visualize my actual self ... in my place. So I applied to some fancy-dancy computer science

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friday was a good day

  

  ’s assignments were the first ones where we had to include sound, which gives ... given prior to this (animate with sand, animate a perspective shift, use paper puppets to animate are some examples), we had both been itching to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  'welcome to MIT' freshmen experience, began on Saturday. Today, Denzil Sikka ... their words. They'd like to write about why 'Going Greek' was the best ... ways I couldn't have imagined as a freshman, so I'm happy to share their

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Story of Tim Tebow My friend Steve '11 wrote a blog for the not admitted.

  

  with Steve many nights (or rather, him talking to me) about football, and ... offer any advice it's just to emote. Let your psychological immune system ... 'll give you two sentences to stop reading. The rest of this post will be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  hasn't yet arrived. Hmm. 7:35am: Nance picks me up; we head in to campus ... campus copy center) to be copied -- 1000 doubled-sided, folded copies are ... : The 100th student arrives! 9:55am: Snively! 10:30am: It's starting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Yay! A hack! Know what're cool? See title.

  

  seriously and hurried over to get pictures before things were taken down ... types like to remain anonymous. Mostly because they're usually doing something illegal, and also because it's part of the Hacker Code of Ethics to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dig if you will a picture. My name appeared in The Tech; now I am immortal.

  

  So there's this list of 101 things to do before you graduate from MIT ... serves me correctly, the things you're supposed to do are along the lines of, "Go to Garment District," "go to a BSO concert," "pull an all

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback A useless guide to MIT undergraduate housing.

  

  . Unless you consider all of those 500 forms I needed to fill out and send in to MIT. So I thought, why not share my thoughts on some of the less ... is the most fun topic. I was so, so excited to get the i3 video. i3

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  I've watched the movie. The plot is literally too ridiculous to explain and sort of requires knowledge of the entire in-game universe to understand, but you can try your best to decipher it [SPOILERS AHEAD] here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  like to collect things that we are too attached to to throw away. We put ... affectionately refer to as our memory mushroom), and when it overflows (which it inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

    While it's easy to think and talk about the incredible ... harder to notice them when you're not. This shouldn't surprise anyone, as it's much akin to trying to appreciate the shirt your friend is wearing

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  countless airline stewardesses, and went back to sleep. In my dreams, I congratulated myself on my good fortune and promised to blog about this. [A bit ... opposed to a performance group that students can join for credit (such as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finals Week, Minus Finals all the non-academic shenanigans

  

  and biscuits. It was good. I realized I have a lot of groceries to ... dumplings.I finished grading some problem sets for 6.0002 (Introduction to ... Square with my friend Moctar F. '22. It was the first time I has been to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Finding Your Match and why it matters

  

  As April ends, and admitted students everywhere decide where to enroll, I wanted to take a few moments to speak directly to the Class of ... Admissions. But what we mean by match - and what match means to you - isn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 21, 2011
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... - they're affixed to a placard next to the door). Also, we have a lot of ... -145 was closer to the real thing than most of the rooms in the movie (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  Harvard Social Studies concentrators (i.e. majors), intended to prepare ... final research paper. The amount of work took some getting used to, but I ... comprehension and academic writing and research. For the final paper, I chose to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  roomful of Institvte phones to individually congratulate and chat with each ... nice personal touch / warm fuzzy feeling to the seemingly heartless process of admissions. When I invited Stephan'13 to come volunteer at the EA

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own ... return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home.    But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  succumbed to a four-hour soak in liquid described by writer Bernard DeVoto as ... oil, unlikely to be mistaken for water." Might I provide an ... legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz

  

  social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 23, 2024