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Blog / CPW
From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions
preparedness for this next stage of my life. More specifically, the independence ... and the people around me that the realization of me having this much ... making decisions. Because at the end of the day, you aren’t alone. Yes, I -
Blog / Academics & Research
Getting Through a Difficult Month Study, Study, Study
belief. Now, as Spring Break comes to close, and the month of April has arrived, I feel ready for the next two months of school before the summer ... like the largest amount of homework in existence. My classes have split -
Blog / Challenges
Hello, Layover (Part Two) Electric Boog-a-loo.
Due to an Act of God, I am in the shiny new JetBlue terminal at JFK for the next three hours. An Act of God, in this case, refers to one hell of a lightning storm in Fort Lauderdale, closing the runway for an -
Blog / MIT Life
Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.
-class faculty, plethora of student groups, proximity to the cultural center of ... thing about MIT is that about 90% of the student body really has no idea ... school, I would always stand at the way back of the dance floor watching -
Blog / How to Human
the person you are now oversharing on the internet
to the boy I thought was the love of my life, or goodbye to the boy I thought was the love of my life. I've spent these past few days revisiting ... walk by the food court in The Source and only see shadows of past selves -
Blog / Admissions
A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT
length of the Infinite Corridor, admiring the cracked Terazzo floor and the ... honed amid the mellow brick and expansive green lawns of my and William ... creating charcoal out of waste material to prevent deforestation in the third -
Blog / Admissions
Human After All Unlike customer service nowadays, MIT (and its admissions office) is 100% human. Give or take…
make things explode using only sheer power of will, I need to set the ... 's something that I see even in the very walls of MIT. I know more people here ... , athletes, and even Facebook stalkers in the student body; all of these people -
Blog / Admissions
Reaffirming our support for undocumented students and clarifying our policies for applicants as Regular Action approaches
As many of you know, there has been a lot of uncertainty in the ... and mission that unite us." One subject of uncertainty since the election has been the educational prospects of undocumented students -
Blog / MIT Life
Rewind the Tape b.good so you can find the golden ticket.
somewhat reminded of the day I turned 18 and tried to buy a lottery ticket ... office decided to take the monthly company party outside of the office and ... them. They've got a lot of healthy alternatives to the typical fast food -
Blog / Athletics
Kick to the limit! The Korean Flying Tigers! What could possibly sound more exciting than that?
the Korean Flying Tigers, and since half of my floor is in the club, I ... be sitting next to the sports editor for The Tech, and through a bit of ... of them, then he'd just calmly walk up, jump 4 feet in the air, do a -
Blog / IAP
One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.
little bit more about my UROP, but also show you a small sampling of the ... cutthroat game of Settlers of Catan by one point, and only because the other ... . Bought some of my course books for next semester from the Coop. (Yes, I -
Blog / Admissions
MITE2S, RSI, and more
nearly half the length of the Infinite Corridor (does this mean the line ... office tomorrow, assisting with the last parts of our process before ... Today, I'm in northern Virginia, assisting with the selection for the -
Blog / Academics & Research
The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.
touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"
. Is that one of this year's end-of-the-world scenarios? Not exactly ... B+, you might feel robbed. But enough of the preemptive ... the days of yore - the good ol' pass/no record days, which are now a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia
If you missed part 1 of the Fredventure, be sure to check that out in ... ="alignright" width="225"] A top-down shot of the rainforest. I'd never held onto my ... hike around in the thickets of the rainforest. At MUSA, we were split -
Blog / Events
A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.
smuggled out of dinner. Now, you may be wondering, is the above: 1) a ... questions. One could certainly argue that the connotation of the word “singular” creates a tone of loneliness and isolation that contributes to the -
Blog / Admissions
Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…
My hometown is a real-world manifestation of the phrase "the wrong side of the tracks." In fact, I'm from the wrong side of TWO tracks. In Middletown, NJ, the residents on the south side of Highway 35 look down on the -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of ... There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you -
Blog / Decisions Day Threads
Open Thread: Not Admitted
converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of ... There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you