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• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  to San Francisco. I'll be spending two weeks on the left coast for a ... kinds of trips retrospectively but figured I'd lead on the front end for this trip to a) explain why I might be uncharacteristically quiet on the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  interview: joy buolamwini hidden figure, poet of code, low-key actual superhero

  

  i mentioned joy in a blog post a few weeks ago, when she won the $50000 grand prize in the search for hidden figures contest. i've been a ... now she's at the center for civic media, working on projects that

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  opinion of it. I’ve been thinking about it throughout the day, and felt it was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the quality!) The article is basically about how the Princeton University human

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  scheduled time my classes this semester, and how engineering and sociology go hand in hand

  

  ," taught by the inimitable Prof. Julie Shah. In aerospace (and lots of other ... well-documented code. We wrapped up the first class with the "Software ... , or harm the environment. Ensure adequate testing, debugging, and

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  problems at the end of this post, and if you enjoy Mike’s writing you should ... type of math. Maybe it’s the physicist in me. So when I heard that MIT ... . The Bee was between the first and second semester. I might have trouble

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  RA deadline is approaching

  

  Hi all, During the holidays, many admissions officers are out on ... the January 1 deadline, here are few FAQs that might help.   For RA students What is the application deadline? The deadline is

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Jigsaw Puzzle of Opinions Ramblings Of A Spring Semester Senior

  

  doesn’t offer me a bite. 99.999% of the time I don’t actually want the food but the Ethiopian side of me is so used to people begging you to eat their food that it’s become deeply engrained in who I am. The other side

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming/editing/etc. If you're curious, here is the Buzzfeed article I mentioned (I'm still ... from the bottom. And because I didn't talk about anything MIT-related in

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good, and the bad.  I want to focus on the happy things. Here are the happy ... - with the incredible Professor Bill Corbett.  It was one of the last

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  the goddess Limos had inflicted a terrible curse upon you. Well, maybe ... ) 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

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 2: Hiking up a volcano at 15,000 ft (~4.5 km) Altitude sickness and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #3

  

  bar from a grocery store, then rode a taxi to the TelefériQo. The ... . Quito itself is at just under 10,000 ft (3 km) above sea level, and the TelefériQo takes passengers on a 2.5 km (~8000 ft) journey to the Cruz Loma

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  the day I finally arrived on Earth, my patience had fast vanished, which explains the “bawling, puking and hair-pulling” antic I mentioned in my ... food at home, I turn into this hyperactive raging rhino. I check the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  The last two years at MIT has been a large exercise in learning how I ... recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... wondering if the classroom had changed without your knowledge. But this is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas they could come up with. To celebrate the start of the weekend, a strange object was placed on the facade of lobby 7. I'm not really sure

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Help@MIT welcome to student resources

  

  went off to distant lands for the summer are finally coming home, and ... orientation (safe travels for the rest of you arriving over the weekend!).  It ... explored, roller coasters to be built, and all the rush food ever shall be

  • by Piper '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron Chef, I’m dusting off the cookbooks and asking mom for advice. I was

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few ... documents haven't shown up on the application tracker. Here's why: we ... morning's shipment of mail. We will get a few more like it throughout the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Most Importantly, No Reddit This is actually how people lived.

  

  On Friday evening, I made the disturbing discovery that my computer’s power adapter was dead. A long time coming, it had been on the fritz for about three weeks – I’d plug it in, but the battery wouldn’t begin to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  schools, met with students and parents, and just spread the good word about ... south as San Diego all the while attempting to hit as many points in between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009