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  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  importance (biking for fun, blogging, sleep) but hey, saving the world involves ... people usually build (round? square? tall?)? Did you play with mud as a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  stick is the greatest invention since written language -while cramming for ... play Guitar Hero -you can't take anything into the GRE testing area

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Peace Out, 2005 Saying goodbye to a great year!

  

  has managed to teach me in the past year. I ran for UA Vice President ... . Dance in the dark. 6. Work hard. 7. Play hard. 8. "We don't make mistakes

  • by Bryan
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  hill at the Killarney end of the Gap of Dunlow, which I might try for ... worked in construction, structural steel, for thirty years — in many ... there’s a charity event for it. Folk come from all over the world. He

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  read. I read guidebooks for each stage of development the stage before I ... 't Sweat the Small Stuff for Teens before I reached twelve, and Elaine St ... disdain for books that seemed--like diet pills or clickbait listicles--to be

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  -years-more-or-less-when-we-feel-like-it gathering of admissions folks from the "IvyPlus" schools, defined, for the ... , we all use them in slightly different ways. For example, one colleague ... other for leadership positions, and that energy sort of animates this vast

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  . . . Wait . . . what? Students at play? Oh right! Tuesday was the 4th Annual ... for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I arrived at the PlaySentations 2 hours early so that I could practice with my

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection: Day Three A beautiful snowy Sunday...

  

  Mike '07, we spied out the window some folks playing in the snow in ... have been nice to have been playing outside in the snow with them

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  us one-on-one for 2 hours when we were struggling with Unity. When we ... pairs artists with writers to create articles for their semesterly editions. We eagerly joined the team and created art for three of their

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Summer With Tulip Interfaces, Inc guest post by Sharon L. '21

  

  , many manufacturing plants use fairly manual processes for figuring out ... , tutorials, machine monitoring, and data insights for apps that factory ... the gateways. I’ve been at the company for three weeks now, and every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lazy hazy crazy Summer for me means lab and cooking. I'm not sure which I like better.

  

  So the presentation that I was making Photoshop slides for last time? I ... "shut up Mollie, you've been dating him for over two years, I know he ... write it (this is my project, anyway, and I've been working on it for a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  words may never hurt me." If only. For a long time, I questioned whether ... other than my potential to do well at MIT. For a little while, I even ... lines. No one wants to miss the game-winning goal. No one likes losing

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  So I know the entire world has been waiting anxiously for the release ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... thesis research for him on my own for the next three months, so nobody

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three events for this week, all of which were made possible by the Dalai Lama

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Current State of Mind ewoufbwu iyfh[things I must do]w39478ry3927rhiwf83tr

  

  Verdes, looking for my debit card with which to pay for my peanut-butter cup cookie ... and covered themselves in ink as well. Yay! >.< For the sake of ... , how I'm going to China for a week over the summer, how sometimes I feel

  • by Ana V. '15
  • May 6, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... have thought that another institution was a better (gasp) match for them ... as CPW. As for CPW, I don't think it goes according to plan for most

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  , so it's a prized location for playing ultimate, having picnics, and ... a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever ... interesting physical and logistical challenges for their perpetrators. As you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Day of School Fall term classes began today at MIT.

  

  Corridor was abuzz with activity, people excited for the new year of classes. For the Class of 2011, these are their very first MIT classes. I only ... Steven Pinker. For me, physics was certainly the hardest; not only did my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work I Ruth and I paint our rooms. First in a seven-part miniseries directed by Ken Burns.

  

  trying to study for the 5.43: Advanced Organic Chemistry final. Just come ... with two coats of Parisian. Ruth is opting for a subdued combination of ... xanga. EDIT 08/09/05: Ruth and I painted for five hours tonight. My room

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Was Great in the 1800s (and it's still awesome today)

  

  students did for fun, also in the late 1800s. For some of you, this post ... women were respected for the work that they did: And the 1896 yearbook ... is to talk about what the students did for fun. And to start, I'd like

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2017