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  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  friends Friday. So I stayed up Friday night watching Pineapple Express with ... , slept for three hours, woke up, had a nice cup of coffee, called up my ... inside out, and made my way up to conference. AT MIT, they say you have to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  up a breakfast burrito at Qdoba and camped out in a little park just ... my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of ... queueing up Spotify, I just pack up and start walking, digesting what I just

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP of Coding time to catch up

  

  so after "MIT: The Sunsical". And my follow-up post, "The Lessons I've Learned", is quickly rising up in views to join its brothers with over 2 ... coding experience. So this IAP I'm playing catch up to be proficient in at

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 5, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  first MIT math exam. On the same day, both my math professors brought up ... roommate crafted nine delightful paper pigs to cheer me up. I also spoke to ... math classes, and instead picked up the more straightforward 18

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

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  /Build/Fly team, training all our delightful new members and gearing up to fly (and ... students looking up to them from the audience. Then Michael Collins stands up ... stands up from the audience to say a few words applauding the teamwork

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  :30 AM, roughed up and ready to fly on the last day of the competition. We ... , and got ready to fly.   Loading up. Corn Dog took off smoothly into ... , a collective gasp went up from the crowd (along with fearful yelps and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  Preview Weekend, the MIT Design/Build/Fly (DBF) team was in lab, packing up ... weekend, either. It's hot, hot, hot. We loaded up our suitcases into rental ... we picked up our finished airplane and lovingly uncrated it from its

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  they're up to these days! It's not surprising that MIT alumni have found ... ! Students can apply to up to three externships in the middle of Fall semester ... interested in, you pick up a few skills, and you hopefully make some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some ... second episode my brother would wake up and take his throne in front of the ... whole day but I promise that this story has a point. Growing up I watched

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• 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

  

  order something, then walks up to the man working the register, throws his ... up, smiles, and says "Satan! I've been waiting for you!" "I've been ... manager has sidled up to the counter and is standing behind his employee

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

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... couple years we've shipped up (or is it down? I still haven't gotten used ... (last year we got too distracted in Sandwich so we didn't quite make it up

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Talk to Strangers you might want to keep what they have to say forever

  

  Radio way back when? For you prefrosh who've signed up for Terrascope or for those of you that will eventually sign up, it's a class you can take ... up to us to decide exactly how we were to produce, split up into groups

  • by Ana V. '15
  • July 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Trains Make Me Think Of Bringing the focus away from miles and minutes - and onto more enriching things

  

  does add up to a substantial amount of time. The commute starts pretty ... cruising up to the northeast. The 40 minute route diverges from most major ... state en route to work, I started firing up that present moment mentality

  • by Emad T. '14
  • July 12, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  encounter with the wall earlier that week, HAD to bring up that by some FREAK ... again, I've only been there to take exams. We made our way up to the ... lowered. With a $1 fee, I picked up some climbing shoes and I was ready to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  , the villain, wants the magic ring and so comes up with a convoluted plot ... a request that she give up the ring to the Rhinemaidens or the gods ... like gilt leaf overlaid on brick, close-up. But from far away, the

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up ... , except for my recitation section, but maybe it'll pick up. Not much to say ... class follow-up to 2.009. 2.009 introduces you to how products are made

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  muttonchops, and sustainably-harvested calabash smoking pipe, I roll up my mental coding sleeves, pull up a terminal, and rake impatiently at the ... victory. 1:55 PM I bundle up and continue along my irreversible temporal

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... . The car filled with cricket sounds and clean, cool air. After setting up ... the next 15 minutes on a mission: my hair drenched, pants rolled up and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  gave up. Which means you get no logic, sorry. Just think of this post as ... weekends ago, I took a morning bus up the countryside to the next big town on ... walking by. To take up more of my day, I decided to ride the shuttle around

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  have a massive summer reading list that I cooked up... although it is ... companies (arguably, that's redundant) don't like to give up their stuff. I ... 're getting rid of. Most companies end up sending piles and piles of perfectly

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011