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  Happy Things Yay!

  

  playing Frisbee on Kresge Oval. Spring seems to have arrived at last ... for awhile now. I've learned not to trust Boston weather, it'll probably ... was on exchange, like all of Illinois got multiple snow days! Dang. For

  • by Karen F. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  There is no solving for x thoughts on moving to and away from Maine

  

  in with my parents. About a month ago I decided to go back home for the ... through with it; if there was no reasonable way to fill in the value for 'x ... now that I moved back in with my parents for the summer. That’s really

  • by Powers '23
  • June 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  time and with a great appreciation for the material. To prevent further ... , “impossibly busy with less time or resources to complete everything than ... happy ending. The past is a lesson learned. I share it with you... I can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  catch up with my MIT colleagues for a couple nice dinners. We dined Friday ... For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National ... professional association for guidance counselors and admissions officers, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  chosen to be the founders of W1. For the next few months, we worked with ... House) and convert W1 into an undergraduate dorm. As with other new undergraduate dorms, a group of founders is formed to help with the final

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  LIFE! is my favorite entry title.

  

  good idea of who I am – random, likes artsy stuff, etc, etc. But to round ... good prognosis for life post pass-no-record) – but I’m liking the crazy ... -heartedly many times before, for class, for SAT II’s, for AP’s; I finally

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  administration came under sharp criticism for collaborating with a regime that ... , a poster reading “Celebrating Complicity with a Billionaire and War ... , aimed at interweaving disciplines offered at the Institute with computing

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... Opportunities Program. Undergrads get to work with actual research, and can get

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Perfect weekend Sun, fun, and Plymouth Rock.

  

  interviewed for my UROP, I was coming in with very little experience (just a 10 ... Oh, it's been such a good weekend. Friday I went into the lab for a ... culture, developing four Western blots, and preparing some plates for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Landing  Your Aircraft Has Arrived at Gate '21 

  

  The very first blog post I published on the blogs was a play on the ... the weather outside is a chilling 2021.   For your safety and comfort ... remain seated with your seat belt fastened until the graduates have turned

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 4, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  , smiling very uncomfortably and waiting for the scene to play out. The man ... 2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m so ill. like, in the bad way

  

  . so you're diseased. Being sick at MIT is no fun. Along with the ... year, I somehow managed to come down with a strain of the flu that left ... liters of water -- for the entirety of finals week. S^3, which is really

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application Now Available here we go!

  

  You can now log onto MyMIT to access the application for freshman ... interview. If you are applying for the November 1 Early Action (EA) deadline ... applying for the January 1 Regular Action (RA) deadline, you should set up

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Three Weeks a short summary of this crazy place

  

  I've only been here for a few weeks, but 'here' already feels like ... . Everywhere I turn my head, I see vibrant signs of life. People are painting ... , I decided to stay. At first East Campus intimidated me, with its

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 12, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  that knit. For a relatively small lab with about ten or so people, that ... , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... out that they were also obsessed with crocheting. So was the new grad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  sprouts, topped with lemon-yogurt dressing and black sesame. User interface ... expecting me to close this blog entry with a tasteful adage topped with cream ... kitchen and ate an ice cream sandwich topped with Spaghetti-O's and Fruit

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  program associated with the University of Grenoble. It sounds really fun ... in another country? And what if you’ve got other plans for the summer ... —which is a pretty common case for MIT students—then IAP is the perfect time

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 1 The first winning entry in the photo contest. What a view!

  

  half. What a view! (Click on the photo for a zoomed-in view)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  We’re approaching the end of the semester with remarkable velocity ... , starting with Tuesday's 18.02 lecture. Class opened with something rather ... weapons-grade plutonium. It also hopefully tasted better, with marginally

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  rocket. Lab 6: Design and test your own water bottle rocket. Work with a partner to design, build, and test a water rocket with an objective of ... atop my mini-fridge for a long, suspenseful day before its first chance

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006