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  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  on a team Fellowship project initiated by the PSC... You do not need to ... list the ones I know with a brief description, and then I'll write a ... service opportunities" and offers IAP and summer fellowships a) Focus

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  better and this was a great way to begin doing so. So that was Monday ... the shots, not the traveler. :-) I got to see a lot of the city that ... at Tangerine. Not cheap, but I'd been eating junk for a week so I

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  ;-- not a real word] before CPW, but the best that we can do is ensure you ... Part 2 of today's Q&A... Possible future MIT Mom asked in regard ... in session, but MIT is not?" This is a good question. It's certainly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... were so grimy that Amritaa '10 wiped her face with a cotton swab and found it to be pitch black. Mmm. Today began with a trip to the mechanic

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  write something about what I'm doing. =p This really has nothing to do ... interning at a fairly large Asian public health clinic in Oakland, CA. During ... , despite being a premed, I knew very little about the current US healthcare

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a job without a lot of clear constraints or boundaries, and it also varies ... issues. It's not always a fun job, although I would like to think I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  Track by 8:15am. I was at Johnson at 8, only to find a line stretching ... point (I don't really know how this happened - I don't recall doing ... completely forgotten the physics line number (18? 25? 49? 61?) In a total panic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  you haven't noticed, I have been drafting on a 12-day posting schedule ... points in a variety of ways. If you take a standard Physical Education ... during IAP (like skiing!) and special PE classes like backpacking for a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  live and vote in Cambridge, there is a [annotation note="MIT is, to my knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus ... .[/annotation] Meanwhile, TurboVote — a software system that makes it easier to register to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  do when on a finite-length trip. We found (after much difficulty) the ... -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids ... . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  heartstrings. We love how hopeful it's tone is! It's a very I-can-do ... consuming some content lately that has brought us joy, so we decided to make a ... useful if you're looking for some distractions (specifically if you're a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  being a person has felt like–becoming aware of awful shit and doing my ... .” — Barbie   Like a lot of high school students, I spent the majority of ... . After my admission and with a summer countdown in full swing, this

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  : I do not have a time machine to go back and study the same person ... relationships”. There’s a lot of depth behind both of these contributions, and as ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a LOT. Just as you would wait at Disneyland for two and a half hours to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two weeks have been much like a take-off. The packing. The uneventful sitting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  grandmother on my dad’s side, which I only get to do when I visit my parents. We ... for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm ... night falls the pink streetlights light the forest from behind, the snow a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  'll do you in a few days. Start with the Sequences if you want to try ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... anything to do, FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS IS GOING TO BE IN BOSTON ON APRIL 17 ... itself. "Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009