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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  ) promising. You push open the door and smile as you hear the familiar jingle of a little golden bell. And then you see the dessert case; instead of ... attention of the frazzled shopkeeper to put in their order. And it turns out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students: MyMIT Updated Important and cool new information on MyMIT: check it out now.

  

  . Across the country (and across the world) there will be meetings of students admitted to the Class of 2010, as soon as this Saturday! Check out ... Students admitted regular action have a whole bunch of new stuff on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  During my first pass through the Logan Airport security line, I was ... 'm playing sine waves in the shower. i sincerely apologize and if you need me ... the same time was thrilled to have a change of scenery (finals period

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  young and naïve freshman away from home for the first time. The feeling of ... ’s, and a whole slew of other acronyms leave you with a warm, tingly feeling ... -eyed, confident, and on top of the world. So, now, this may be the moment where you

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  2022 Ring Premiere! ring alert: it SHINY

  

  vast majority of my friends were also in that auditorium, and by the time ... Rats for ninety years, and they're a hugely important part of MIT ... and effort creating the ring (which has a typical layout, but no

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  had, and so missed our first lecture. Oops. [] One of the things I ... the future. The first few weeks of term have been really hectic, mostly ... sings Happy Birthday at the top of their lungs and gives speeches

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  tasks and surveys, except some of the participants’ VR bodies resembled ... the far side of the room and the tame version is on the near side. this ... of rewiring senses the brain already processes, like vision and balance

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  this summer and that I should perhaps fix the formatting of my résumé and ... the list of companies beforehand and had a rough idea of what industries ... . But many don’t. A lot of the due dates are rather early and can fly past

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  prepositions at the ends of sentences and phrases. See how annoying I sound if I ... . You’re putting yourself on paper. Recognize the things you did and fell in love with. The traits that make you whole. Does that sound scary? To me it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  our first quiz, which was quite challenging and took me the whole two ... as the first piece of historical writing in Western society, and also ... science, math, and writing, so I've chosen the following mixture of classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Updates, Previews, and My Successor

  

  , Paul and Karen, are among the authors. Here's a picture of the cover so ... series. Next, keep your eyes peeled for profiles of the one and only Melis ... , Ecuador, support their water system through the sale of their jewelry and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it ... quotes from the lovely captain of the lightweight women’s crew team, Sharon. I’ve compiled the corniest collection of these quotes into power

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... only recall one fisherman (fisherperson?) from the thousands of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round of the bracket and unanimously lost to it. Sorry, Julie Andrews fans ... of us there and each of us preferred a different movie. So, we each

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  take it as a treat, and I’ve been having a lot of fun. The first few ... dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my ... of the week based on how you plan to spend them. Athena and Leo have

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  Ori and the Will of the Wisps to evaluate. CMS.616 For CMS.616, we ... study the evolution of spectatorship in the videogames space and looking ... focus our video on the history of the tamale and its indigenous roots

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and ... individuals when they are asked the question of what they like about MIT and ... this one already existed, and now i'm part of it. probably similar to the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  imagine why. So I couldn't upload any of my photos. Which was the whole ... out about the Croque McDo and everything, but I was kind of bummed. So ... the form of a McDonald's in Marseille, France. Seriously. As Samuel L

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  ; This is my first post of the academic year, so I’ll treat it as a bit of ... year, at the start of my admissions blogging in the spring and throughout ... better, and on and on. To answer these kinds of questions, you first have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  first drafts of just such a book. Now that the admissions season is fully ... , and open as possible. That's why I tend to believe that most of the so ... the whole history of each school you apply to, I think it helps to at

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007