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  Guest Blog: A Guide for the Hopeless and Drenched thoughts from mark '15

  

  , inspirational stories, and never-ending lists of extra-curriculars? Hopeless and ... numbers and letters. Scores and grades do a fairly reasonable job of ... contents of your transcript, rather by the quality and depth of what you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Inbox Insanity "You've Got Mail."

  

  many mailing lists and now they’ve all kind of grown on me (like quickly ... Considering the lack of inactivity on these blogs in the past week or ... can’t find it on the website, they don’t show you on the tours and you

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  'T KNOW! I NEED SOME TIME TO THINK! So here are a few of my thoughts on the ... another 4.5 - 6 years of higher education including 2 years of classes and a ... and charts detailing effectively two weeks of research. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  on the second floor of Building 4 and Sloan lecture halls. * Random ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members ... the basic premise of the characters, the card-counting method, and the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the things I was planning on doing during IAP...and then I got distracted by ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Events That You Should Come To! totally biased, but hey, it's my blog

  

  to be cold and rainy during the first two days of CPW :( ) Yes, you ... frats, sororities, and ILGs) called iHouse - in fact, there's only 20 of us scattered in 17 rooms on the first two floors of New House, one of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.

  

  Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  winner receives $100,000 and two years of support from Thiel's network in ... was one of only two women to win (and the only American woman); the ... she was 12, matriculated at MIT when she was 14, and now at 17 plans on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  , being founding director of the Broad (more on that later), and "world ... are posted on the MIT events calendar), and they usually are are very ... "shoot for the moon" in terms of faculty, and emailed Professor Eric Lander

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What’s new? Life in Radiohead's hometown

  

  cells carry a unique pattern of receptors and proteins on their surface ... . So I am following Mollie’s lead and posting an update on my life after ... in this blog entry, but I’ll try to touch on some of the surprising

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  an embodiment of modern consumerism and globalism. Here, you can go on ... Institute campus combines the chillness of living Cambridge and the proximity ... bubble—the city features an array of events and performances. Below are the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  , one more so a narration of events happening, one more reflective and a ... pieces of deep thought and stories, things that you may not even have told ... there is no direct way of getting criticism on the blogs, I am usually my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... NOTE: I drafted and abandoned this post in the spring of my freshman ... even with it, the end of the first semester here felt like walking on a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... a closer look at that sail! Looks to me like a sail with a C on it...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  . How’s the water?’ And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes 'What the hell is water?'” (DFW went on to deliver a timeless and celebrated address that is well

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  Sasisekharan, a professor of Biological Engineering, and did his senior thesis ... simultaneously (!) Armed with the skill of ambidexterity, he was well on his way to ... decided to focus his career on finance and technology-based entrepreneurship

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A Little INSPIRation Guest Post by Vaishnavi Rao '17

  

  Course 9 – Brain and Cognitive Sciences. Outside of classes and UROPs (that ... focuses entirely on original research in the arts, humanities, and social ... faculty, staff and alumni in the MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Varsity Pistol Team Wins National Championship

  

  team, Tech placed first in air and free, and sixth in standard pistol. On ... , theater, and, yes, sports. MIT is a member of NCAA Division I in Crew ... play on the MIT Alumni Club of Boston team. As I like to say in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 22, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  N.Y. Times, Page B11: “MIT Guard Shows Brains and Hoops Can Mix” Jimmy Bartolotta '09 leads the 16-5 MIT Men's Varsity Basketball team.

  

  I subscribe to the New York Times (paper edition!) and reading it on ... section and saw a giant article on the MIT men's basketball team, and guard ... some research on the program, and saw some familiar names on the roster

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What do you do for fun around here? What,this isn't fun to you?

  

  and a valid psychological analysis. One of these friends recently ... few of us think are fun, and you'll probably find no better video clip ... number, and ATM machine. But if you want to be a functioning member of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 9, 2010