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  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots and 2% for MIT faculty members*. *Disclaimer: this statistical ... Factoid of the Day: I've never paid for food from the MIT Student

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Why yes, I’m with the news I need a good fedora

  

  here it is with a visitor. I'm at a loss for how to caption this one, but ... I work at Hasbro in Rhode Island, about a 1 hour train ride away from ... Clubhouse coordinators for outstanding leadership skills, technical and

  • by Snively '11
  • August 7, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  likely to be, or perhaps a sense that maybe it's best not to know. As for ... grad school someplace with palm trees, I spent 16 years at the Jet ... robots to explore other planets. The high point for me was when I was on

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  have done REUs and really enjoyed them, but for the career I'm looking at ... (seriously, 41 kbps? WTF.) for five and a half days. This is probably the ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  Well, I'm back home in the great state of Ohio, getting ready for ... over the river and through the woods) to my grandmother's house for the ... , following which we will drive around the Columbus area and look at Christmas

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  consent) arrived at 9:00 and made pleasant conversation with me about MIT until 2 AM, whereupon I started my problem set and studying for my German ... would have actually worked out really well for me because Adam is in his

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Half Harvard, Half MIT My schedule this term is split down the middle. Like the movie Grindhouse. Or Korea.

  

  glory of Tuesdays, in which I get up at 7 to bus over to Harvard for a ... programs for people to look at while they're in the MRI, and sometimes in ... Nick, who was recently sued by Apple for defending free speech on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  enjoyable for both parties. I have had students reel off their achievements at ... for presentable, comfortable clothes in which you feel at ease. Strong ... normally choose coffee bars for my interviews, but others interview at their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  I wasn't prepared for. The counselors at the college assure me that ... class sizes at MIT are very big, for beginner (freshman) subjects ... fast pace we've been going at has been a struggle for me to keep up with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least ... and enrolling at a shool for that purpose (Calc AB, Calc BC, Physics C ... 're very backed up. I would not worry about it for at least a week or two

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  , the other three getting master's degrees at MIT. Tomorrow is ... register for classes. Usually, you show up knowing approximately which ... advisor I’ve had for three years, for my last fall registration day meeting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom ... advice for how to get stuff to us generally. Thanks for applying to MIT ... application yet. But don’t worry! We know this may be for reasons out of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  for themselves at this time. And our best thoughts and wishes are with ... students is November 6th, 2011, at 11:59 PM. For all other students, we will ... November 6th, 11:59 PM, for SOME students affected by this weekend's nor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  considered for a blogger position, you must email me (chris dot peterson at mit ... this morning, but check out what the Boston Globe had for its weather forecast for the long weekend: A sun-moon wearing shades? Now that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  something that I had to send back to MIT, and it asked for my religious ... that isn't Kim or Rizos or Lzhpb*n!xobile is code for "JEWISH!" in Hillel ... equally German last name is also on Hillel's mailing list, so at a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer, East Campus rush, and the new term East Campus orientation activities, the summer, and the upcoming term.

  

  The month of August was pretty busy for me - a combination of work and preparation for the new term. Last week, for example, I day-tripped DC for some work meetings (6.5 hours each way makes for a long day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  , asking ourselves if we've learned anything at MIT so far. I, for one, am ... I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... who get excited at the prospect of a challenging math problem or physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  last friday a lot of my friends walked at commencement after a speech ... at roughly the same time and grew in some sense of togetherness, and ... 'll excuse myself for having some extra level of fondness for the 2017s. i don

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  aerobic capacity, which allows them to run at blazing speeds for long ... fibers are not powerful enough to run at high speeds for long periods of ... fat and sugar for fuel, only sipping at glycogen reserves.  For more on

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Belated Guest Entry by Carin '13 - a little late perhaps but incredible nonetheless

  

  villages we looked at villagers’ lifestyles: how they cook, what they use for ... packed my suitcase yet again (I'm really good at it now, haha) and hopped ... Carin '13. Better late than never, though, right? Here it is at last

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 2, 2010