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  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... ;   I also got to visit Kazakhstan, which is a strange, beautiful ... they have there. One of the best things about my job is I get to travel

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  's also finals week, during which many MIT students seem to take on the view ... maybe like the end of IAP. I'll get back to you on that.) Day 9. The ... , and so I feel this is a fortuitous day - but when I get to the front of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week ... day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do ... lab usually takes around 4 hours and a couple of hours to write up

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  advice was lost on me in the multitude of options - seminar or traditional ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose ... discussing things which may or may not be relevant to what we read. It's a nice ... , not three, but FOUR times since I last did, it is clearly time for me to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  This post is intended to [annotation note="consider viewing them side ... work despite the [annotation note="extra is a strong word here. to be ... helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interphase This entry has nothing to do with cell division

  

  before you come to MIT and get screwed over by the tsunami of work that is ... card with a very nice amount of Tech Cash on it to spend on food ... I have more to ask of you? Well, you can do one (or more) of the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  primary deliverable for the class is a term paper on a topic of the student ... of them! Instead, I'll be reading a bunch of applications...which is ... description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  Director of Admissions to Associate Director of Admissions (yes, this is a ... 'Grady, which is a lot of fun (and you can watch the episodes online!); I'm hoping ... in on all of the details soon. Relatedly, I will also be doing a small

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... those at Harvard or Wellesley. Sometimes, it’s good to leave. Still, on ... minutes away. Getting to MIT is a “commute” now. The bus chugs through the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in New York! where chicken and rice is so good.

  

  I think one of the greatest things about going to college is the ... at night, because one of my secret dreams is to work as a multilingual ... , which is slightly scary, but also kind of odd, since with med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 27, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  takes a long time for sediment to collect at the bottom of a liquid ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... -wrenchingly terrified. I needed to get closer to the words so they’d get out of my damn

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  which? Homeoptotes On a certain date, I carried a crate with a lot of ... items in the cart which you might say was a premonition or a prophecy of ... It's been—checks watch—two weeks since I last posted, which is a week

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership Training Institute by YeSeul Kim '10 and Anne Shen '11.

  to create a program to educate students on the significance of ... LTI is on. LTI strives to instill in our students the four cornerstones ... was thus uniquely designed to empower students to cascade this act of

  • by mitblogs
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  , kind of, is its proximity to the Dreilпњљпњљnderpunkt--the junction of ... DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  in Paradise, I returned to Boston laden with gigabytes of photos, which ... view, we were alone. The only people crazy enough to camp on the ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my probable choice of major (or however it is they ask you what it is you want ... , I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  sheet of paper on his desk to which I keep adding useful tidbits of ... Mónica). Then Mónica and I left to meet the rest of her siblings (Martín is ... been products of the Media Lab. I think my boss is trying to make me feel

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a ... , is that Varsity Club didn't really seem to be an important part of Erin ... understandable; I remember doing a bit of that myself on college apps. I vividly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... out of the printer. Everything seemed too easy, so we went to the ... objective was to walk out of that library with something from that prize wheel

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022