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  International Selection Day 1

  

  a selection committee meeting: it was the first day of international ... -Fair (International Fair), one of my favorite (and yummiest!) events of the year ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rejoicing A few things worth celebrating.

  

  the pockets of my lab coat. (I work with mice, and I love them. Rats are ... written "Students Exempt from the Test" and a list of names. And sure enough ... papers (mine was on dopamine receptor genetics) and doing well on the first

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 7, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  remember me on family

  

  played on me by the world. They take the one of the sturdiest and steadfast ... if the real him, the him that is whole, complete, and there, is ... Tongson, one of the strongest and brightest men I know. Who pushed me to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 1, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away

  

  math UROP for the first 2.5 years of MIT, I went to office hours less ... in any of the math clubs, and barely made any friends in my math ... because of it, and for the most part, our conversations were sanitized of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  orientation, and one of the speakers asked, “How many of you thought high school ... know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... from the situation and moving on. After high school, I felt like I had

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

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  if you can, silly! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a ... see how far of a walk the dormitories, class rooms and other campus hot ... Minority Affairs and find out first hand what kinds of activities and

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  begin, in the interest of honesty and full disclosure, by telling you the ... organizations for some scholarship help and off I went. For the first time, I was ... first sociology class, which opened my mind beyond the issues of my rather

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  last year for the commencement of the Class of 2011. And it's echoed in ... MIT. In a few months, the Class of 2016 will register for their first ... and author. You may have seen Moneyball, the movie based on his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Reality is merely an illusion… Ben : The OC :: Sam : ?? . Oh wait, you took the new…

  

  competition, the first season of which gave us the imminently quotable Jay McCarroll, Austin Scarlett, and Kara Saun. Anyway, in the middle of the recap, I came ... clothing. Nina asks to see the back of the dress, and, after fighting with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I ... bunch of activities you need to take care of, and you want to minimize the ... A couple entries ago, I described 6.046 (Design and Analysis of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Kindred Spirits or, "Making Friends"

  

  first problem sets, sampling a slew of clubs, and losing sleep all the way ... topic of conversation, and how much sleep I got the previous night. Not ... discussing philosophy, the role of ethics in science, and the power of wordplay

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 19, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and elsewhere [...] on the ... graduate student and co author of the research. "The thinking was that the ... . Despite the American reputation of not being a soccer-friendly country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National ... . For first-year camps like ours, the factor that limits the number of ... provide…a safe place to be kids again and have fun, a network of other kids

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  , Illinois, the DC area, Florida, and more. Complete list of MIT Central ... you expect? First, the admissions officer and the local Educational ... Beginning tomorrow through the middle of October, my Admissions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  DOMR My first crazy picture entry from Germany.

  

  and 524 steps to the top of the Koelner Dom. Pictured here are Katy '08 ... not to do that. And here's Ling '07 at the top of one of the spires ... hazards" and erotic implications of chocolate throughout the rococo era, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  solid ice covering the road and everything around it. It's the lack of ... 'm hands down a "mountains-and-forest" kind of guy, but the giant sequoias ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone ... away from eighteen years of the expected. And so I moved, 3,000 miles ... still eat peanut butter and jelly out of the jar from a spoon. I still

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  also a tricky one. My first reaction to reading this part of the prompt ... social dynamics, and touting the supremacy of [annotation note="I will DIE ... The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  carts of food careening through the aisles and pointing at the nicest ... , handled some of the larger and more dangerous explosives for us. And, uh ... below, there were about a hundred and fifty or so over the course of five

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  Public Library, and in the company of all those who ran before and with ... of this blog may recall my post, last April, about MIT and the Marathon ... and coming to terms with the fact that some things are out of your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017