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  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  not know, dances are not my scene. One of the stereotypes at MIT is that ... , sitting in a room with my mother while she watches a cocktail of What Not to ... me to appreciate color pairing and fashion. This is atypical for a guy

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  's kind of assuring to think of it like this. It's a yes or a no. And I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15 ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  General Advice Application advice for HS juniors and sophomores, inspired by a student's question

  

  -curriculars, either in an essay or on the application form, try to make it more than a ... schools admit you, you'll go on to achieve great things in life. This is ... essay(Mitra) Clarification on what exactly a "good match" is (Matt) But

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  which I highly recommend you all to attend) to the free showing of Lars ... which attempt to show the viewers how the end of the world affects the ... : pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  Dad is no longer whispering his view of it in your ear.” I turned to ... website is a database containing descriptions of these objects, which are ... ’s hard to explain what Homestuck is quickly, but some of its themes are

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without ... sunrise is sort of an unpleasant experience, it means you're running out of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  actually dismantled parts of the building and kept them, which is why the ... Orientation Closing Ceremony, in which all the freshmen gather on the steps of Killian on the last day of orientation in order to be photographed and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  , but there are exceptions to every rule, and mine is not being bothered ... . (Thanks, college!) But to focus on the mostly positive, here are the things ... to come home to food that you know is delicious, was made personally

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily ... pieces of vegan chocolate cake, to be had. The birthday girl lapped up

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I don’t like SPAM! Technology to the rescue!

  

  I know you’re already thinking to yourself, “Where is Dave going to ... with Bacon!*)? Perhaps a photo of SPAM carved to resemble some bit of ... concerns me. So we’re going to try something called ReCaptcha on the blogs

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 6, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my MacBook, but let me tell you that HD video is not kind to CPUs. On the plus side

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  , the onus is on you to stay ahead of the game. Don't take any day for ... little idea on how to tackle a certain problem; you will walk out of ... blog, right? Okay. Now we've got that out of the way, allow me to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Evil Institute of Technology Mystery Hunt, Day 1.

  

  job to stop him! At 12:17pm today, hundreds of hunters gathered in ... sign to gather our team, the Rubber Duck Hunters: I saw lots of people ... cookie monster. Second: Count how many of each cookie is used in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  her next film, which is an adaptation of Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake ... appeal to some of you... The (27th annual!) LSC Sci-Fi Marathon is a ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  complicated compound that is extremely difficult to make. Instead of relying ... plasmid, or small circular piece of DNA, into the bacteria, Ana is ... species that will allow the bacteria to produce a major intermediate of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The final stretch ...of 2017

  

  an additional opportunity to improve your score on any section of one ... project due last Wednesday on the last day of classes. We had the liberty to choose any topic or field to explore in the realm of computational

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 21, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  IAP=Watermelon in January I honestly can't think of a better analogy.

  

  2 classes for credit. I took 8.01L, which is a version of physics you ... pretty awesome themselves, but the computers on which we did labs had this ... composed of representatives from companies who then offer interviews to

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  for 18.02 (multivariable calculus), which is one of the freshman GIRs ... This semester, almost all of my classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays ... - easy access to the Undergraduate Math Office in 2-108. Why is the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  to get sucked into the MIT mindset (or as I like to think of it, the ... changes to walk, or taking in the occasionally beautiful weather on the ... this. Or this. Sometimes MIT feels like one intense workout on a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012