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  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  Bombers installed a giant concrete bomb on the Kresge lawn, which led to a ... jumping through a bunch of hoops to ensure everyone is kept safe. We had to ... living group, the Burton Third Bombers, on [annotation note="the weekend of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my ... ; fairly mundane stuff. But mundane is nice. I often feel like I have to ... City to stay for the summer about a week prior. Most of my stuff was

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  to begin thinking and planning ahead of time, which I respect and value ... , which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or fewer) At MIT, we bring people together to better the lives of others

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  on to your children. Instead of paper, it is written on a long string ... wooden BBQ skewers or something else with which to stir. One container of ... interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  related to technology, who all descend on Las Vegas the first week of every ... January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  incompatible, emotions, a few of which I want to name and honor: - Sadness that ... it is normal. It is also okay, and it is normal, to feel a sense of ... ’ traces to a 1382 English translation of Acts 19:9: “Summe weren endurid, or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Thursday liveblog Updated whenever I get a chance.

  

  arrived! 11:13am: It has started to rain. Lots of umbrellas on the campus ... groups, having already made friends on campus. This is going to be a great ... :45am: I talk to Steven's mom on the phone from Tennessee. Hi! 1:10pm

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

  Culture, not the bacterial kind Some questions you should be asking about all the schools to which you're applying.

  

  need to figure out in order to decide on a program, therefore, is which ... hard, or do students in the program encourage each other to work hard? Is hard work a virtue or an expletive? Is there a lot of competition between

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  -than-the-usual amount of freedom this semester. It’ll be fun to reflect on how I thought ... exercising without the pressure of pushing myself to be better and better ... classes out of pure interest, which is a luxury I’ve never fully had before

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... 't have any pics saved on my phone. I finally got those pics to her

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  restaurant on the 56th floor of a building overlooking the city to one side and ... (which is apparently the only castle in North America to ever hold royalty ... pyramids, or visit most of the East side of town. I hope to go back next

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  [by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director of Arts Initiatives, and Ken Haggerty '11] MIT is at the center of one of the most original and ... 's performance of Leocadia. Photocredit / Hayden Taylor ARTALK will focus on the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  expect the admissions decisions to be emailed or posted on the website ... conducted - is it done in a day, or over a period of time?" We are still ... is part of your context, see my previous entry on the subject. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  project was creating a *moodboard* to determine the color scheme, which is a ... program that allows you to 'play' a guitar using a LeapMotion, which is a ... on somebody's daily routine. Our work is supposed to be presented at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  will wreak havoc on any link you have made to anything in it ever ever ... working on fixing this, anonymous person who probably got assigned to Senior ... my affection. Edit: Fixed! Alex '12 is made of awesome. Also this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  once or twice a week Guidelines “The only dream worth having is to ... its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is ... report is encouraging or irrelevant. I can't tell which.

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  fly with me anytime!" Only the last one of those is even close to being ... at Star Market. They cost $2.99 plus tax. Upon starting to address them ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... particular configuration is celebrated merely on the basis of its existence or ... collocation. The simplest approach to such recording is the list, a group of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of Class Sick.

  

  've been lying around either freezing or burning up in bed or on my couch or somewhere in between trying to figure out why the little birds on my ceiling ... -register for fall classes at the end of spring term, and pre-registration is open

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  advice on how to write an essay for one of her students. here is what I ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories ... situation in which obfuscation is to your advantage. You will frequently

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012