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  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... titled each document “I miss application season,” but over the course of writing and editing this, I realized that I don’t really miss applying, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world ... their teams, a few of us met up at the Carnegie Science Center, saw ... International Science and Engineering Fair, or ISEF. If you're unfamiliar with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  next generation of scientists." 2:11 Academics: Schools of Science ... physics/chemistry/math. You don't apply to each of these schools, you apply ... figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  various artistic/technical aspects of animation, and how we have been able ... up out of nowhere, OpenMind::OpenArt, which we describe in more detail in the first part of this series, that allowed us to spend our freshman

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  approximately 150 days. This Festival of Arts, Science, and Technology [F ... of yet another great semester in MIT arts, and to celebrate this MIT ... community through his annual MIT Arts Party: ABOVE: Carla Sehbani (Office of

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  Some of my blogger friends and non-blogger friends have asked me to ... instead of trying to find time to meet irl. Illustrator is basically MS Paint but better- I mainly use it to make diagrams of my projects, label

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  photos of their loved ones and leave out food and offerings that their ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  words). Content warning: death. Interactive science fiction comic book ... interactive post-apocalyptic? science fiction? surreal? story. It's dreamlike and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the start of Independent Activities Period (IAP). *Cue “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without ... do MIT students do with one month of freedom? I’ll be working on my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Does the smell of latex make you smile? Think Grey's Anatomy is the ... -thorasic surgeon like Dr. Burke or Chief of Surgery like Dr. Webber? (do NOT, I ... out with McDreamy...there are plenty of Patrick Dempseys in the business

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “…being a geek works out…” A UROP at the Center for Sports Innovation.

  

  researcher at the MIT Center for Sports Innovation, has an impressive list of clients -- from Tour de France stage winners to some of North America ... development of improved sports equipment. Kim Blair, the center's director

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  miracle, nor is it a science. It’s work. A lot of work (and a touch of ... applies in the rest of MIT also. It’s hard sometimes to admit that you need ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  survey about perceptions of Goldman Sachs and Microsoft (they gave me $20 ... ), ate dessert at Coldstone, and saw Over the Hedge. We also saw a bunch of ... , yeah? Today I have given a tour of MacGregor to Zi Wen (a member of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by ... around, and I left that sleepless, exhilarating set of weekends with a song

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Moving Across The Pond From One Cambridge to Another

  

  (clubs). One aspect of University that is often over looked is the fact that ... University Digital Gaming Society (CUDGS) A group of gamers who come together ... off to a land of free healthcare, fizzy lemonade and double decker buses

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  classes range from the Science of Explosions to Engineering Polymers to ... and be inspired to apply and hopefully come to MIT! FPOP At the end of ... I know this is delayed, but I never got to write an end-of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.) We went to the ... writing a letter of rec for me for a political science summer camp, he kept ... [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  and is a member of Northeastern University's Class of 2024. Since I left ... my dorm in a rented Penske truck. We piled all of my boxes and bags ... , some kitchen equipment, and a new pack of paper towel rolls from Costco

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... of emails since Saturday and a bunch of blog comments, all asking for "just a couple of sentences" about why a specific applicant was not

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  're walking through forty degrees of nitrogen, oxygen, and ice cubes, but that's about it. This concept of leaves falling off trees? Yeah. Completely ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006