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• Blog / Admissions

  Homeschooled applicants Some advice for our homeschooled applicants.

  

  the MIT Admissions homepage. That page will launch soon, and I'd recommend bookmarking that page, and not this entry. But this should get the ... have been schooled in the home and under the umbrella of larger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... want and write about it. I've chosen to write about the history of autism ... interested in and is rather visible in society. For the first time in my life

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  my attention span, I packed up and started walking to the Church of ... , but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: When in South Africa guest post by a fellow '21

  

  professors and departments at Wits University and the University of Cape Town I ... a week early and spent the time exploring different parts of Johanessburg. The first day I made my way to the Apartheid Museum and after

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  ; read: the first row of each economy "section" on the airplane. so much ... a whole summer! =D During the last week of my stay in Taiwan, I went ... (often with blackouts and without cell phone reception). Most of the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  on MIT faculty pages. Nisha D. hails from Petey’s neck of the woods ... legitimate tears of joy for the first time in my life when a Playstation 4 ... who, for the first time in the history of the blogs, will be TWIN

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Uncategorized

  gently down the stream whitewater rafting might be easier than driving on mass ave

  

  this Saturday. The first break of the school year passed this weekend ... of a Showgirl, and after that, Taylor Swift on shuffle. The New England ... coolest person ever and leads rafts on the weekends as a change of pace from

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • October 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  in honor of tau the superior circle constant

  

  around the circle) and diameter (length across the circle). The ratio of ... ’s circumference and its radius. Doing a bit of algebra on the definition of [latex ... long time. Michael Hartl wrote the first version of The Tau Manifesto for

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • February 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a semester in glass! i made a lot of things :D

  

  one was my first piece of the semester, and I kept things pretty simple ... 's a walkthrough of all the different things I made this semester and ... a ton of content. When I took it for the first time last semester, I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 28, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  to rest and relax. In addition, I attended one of the Quest ... uncertain and intimidated. Most of all, I wished I was on the other side of ... conference and of course, answering lots and lots of questions. At the MIT

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  ) lecture fell prey, and, by the third week of classes, I just stopped ... Biology, I had effectively dropped off of the academic map, and my 7 ... grades were actually quite good, and I walked out of the 3-hour exam after

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First ... new major at Rice) and the fact that MIT seemed to provide a ton of ... /CogSci majors. Speaking from the perspective of a Course 7/9 (Bio and Brain

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  -tech training tools I was really surprised by the layers of safety and ... things.  By the end of it I was ready and anxious to actually jump out of ... awesome - I went over the jump verbally and in my head, touched all of my

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  moleskine notebook since the beginning of junior year of high school, and now ... emphasis on self-respect, boundaries, patience, and most of all, the ... because it dulled the pain, but choosing to take a leap of faith and open my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  </> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them ... soup, but I can never remember which. And I generally steer clear of the ... at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  of Lobby 7. Looking around at the long pillars and intricate ceiling ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for ... , let's just say that the day was spent in a weird state of being

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  Massachusetts Ave and Memorial Drive since the beginning of time (i.e. 1938 when ... from the the "ashes" of Ashdown and create a new vibrant generation and ... we looked at were Baylor University in Waco, TX and the University of

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Festival

  

  , Kelly, Jenna and Lulu loved it. One of the highlights of the Festival is ... game of poker. The evening featured many performances and demostrations ... folk dance) also performed, much to the delight of Pooja, Veena, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  of discussion about the role of gender roles and sexuality in pro ... Yesterday evening at MIT had a fairly random pair of events: First ... advance screening of Blades of Glory by the Lecture Series Committee (LSC

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  After Graduating From beyond the veil :O

  

  relationship with the city and Chinese culture (which I also wrote about of ... of deep soul-searching. It was one of the first times I’ve felt ... life as the night you’re invited to a party, but you’re kind of sick, and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 10, 2019