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  This Particular [T-] REX Tuesday (No actual tyrant lizards in this blog post.) Frosh come chill with me!

  

  with my Legos; when it comes to you, you should explore all of your new school’s dorms and interact with as wide a variety of your new classmates ... --but never surrender, on paint of death. For our fashion-forward frosh: never

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 1, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  the past three years at MIT I've taken a good number of team ... profile for the Ideal MIT Student™, I do have a good sense of what types of ... 't too hard for most MIT students.  Your standard class does a good job of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  things than simply stalking other prefrosh on facebook or refreshing the MIT Admissions webpage in hope of a new entry every hour. Anyways, since ... New House, Next House, and took a tour of Simmons. After that, Fangfei

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during ... (who was my aunt for the weekend) tried on an Alpaca sweater of Ari ... steer out of the way of people. I then unwisely asked Will to try a

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2017!

  

  old girl at nerd camp yelled at me for being part of the globalist ... dragon staff 3) It's time for those of you who might want to be bloggers ... blogger? The mission of the blogs is to help prospective students understand

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Experiment… featuring Emily '22, Felix '23, and Alison '23

  

  me. – Felix"]new crop of bloggers.[/annotation] As I was combing ... note="more like sporadic brain dump of sounds but follow me on Spotify ... half of that list was us figuring out ways to monetize MIT clout w

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  [annotation note="Fundamentals of Programming. Its new number is 6.101, but I ... Paper notes I hate taking notes with my iPad, so I went back to good ... sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  socioeconomically diverse. 2. There is a quota on the number of international ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  've done just over half of all the items on that chart. One item that I ... Langer, head of the huge Langer Lab on campus (where many undergrads such ... had the pleasure of attending another such lecture on Thursday afternoon

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  Course 24 - Linguistics and Philosophy is on the top two floors of Stata ... -Based Learning (read more on CBL). Instead of seat time and class completion ... these soon. Best of all, I get to bond with new residents, transfers and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  : Assuming that the new order of the planets is: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Ceres ... If you're old like me, you'll remember a classic episode of Saved by ... nerd, Screech, got sick and Zach had to help carry the team. One of his

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  got less than 7xx on some test. Should I retake it? Plenty of people get ... everyone - remember that all of the prompts on our application are simply ... particular side of me. I know that the first essay is way too long (1000 - 2000

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  morning-after pill and unsafe sex December 1: Impact of Vioxx's downfall on ... December 6: Impact of hurricanes on oil and gas industry Prospect theory and the real estate market for condos Impact of Vioxx's downfall on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... , Thirteen Ways of Looking. Another best-selling author, Claire Messud, came to ... . We approached the author. I passed Thirteen Ways of Looking and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Jhumpa Lahiri visited MIT today! ...and all of Cambridge (it seemed) wanted to see her!

  

  reading one of the eight stories in her new book, Unaccustomed Earth, for ... alone love, and Jhumpa Lahiri is one of them. The Pulitzer Prize winning author of the books Interpreter of Maladies (1999) and The Namesake (2003

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions below in the comments, all the way through midnight tomorrow... If you ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Did you know about this? This is big.

  

  whole lot of good. It helped make national interest possible when all ... California. But it has passed both house and senate and may be on its way to ... , a citizen only as of last summer, I'm pretty especially excited to be

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  knowledge of passions and dislikes, new hero-professors to aspire to. But an ... , right in time for the creation of a new batch of competency ... something new and edgy to do in the outside-of-MIT world. I’ve enjoyed

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  for covid, and i appreciate instructor conti going out of his way to ... of my new room. observe that there are 18 windows, 6 that are obscured ... the few people i interact with these days. and finally, on the topic of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020