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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  friend, Jimmy '13, with all his free swag) Essentially, because people with so many different motivations are attracted to Career Fair, it gets ... to make the trip by myself, I asked Natnael if he'd tag along with me

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  After the chaos and confusion that was associated with MIT FPOPs ... . I ended up scheduling an appointment with my TA to go over my test ... understanding on certain topics, which combined with some silly mistakes, resulted

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  admissions process. For those of you not familiar with the practice, “legacy ... admissions, along with citing certain fringe benefits like “bridging” the ... legacy preference. We’ve corresponded with IR, and neither they nor we have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  practically wetting yourself with excitement over CPW, you should totally check ... , who, unlike me, is not totally out of touch with what the kids are doing ... peer educator about sexual assault; a UROP researcher with Professor

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  limit for freshmen with sophomore standing or upperclassmen; the only ... of the few with an open-ended thesis project. I'm doing some sentiment analysis with the Media Lab's Digital Intuition group, which does a lot of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  to get my feet wet (err...only metaphorically) with Winter School. It ... ample down time for doing things with your friends. I've been working with ... stuff we're not done with that I really want to add), and building this

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  to share a bit of my own culture with you. It is, in fact, my home ... share my current advanced state of cultural observance with you:   ... a ghost, white with shock at how good looking the ground from which

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  something or by defining ourselves with certain characteristics. For example ... needed to be a leader with drive to change something about your community, an academic scholar with good SAT scores and solid grades, and an

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a writing class and wanted to share his experiences and insights with ... will break out, desperately pillaging the earth with electricity and ... competent students with excellent grades, gold medals, impressed teachers

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  probably a good decision. And with that introduction, boom - away we goooo ... . On this particular day, Prof. Spector decided to start the class with a ... making blood vessels? TOO BAD! He's got a roster complete with pictures of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Beauty, xkcd, and my classes The problem with me.

  

  *-duh-nar-done”) kicked off our first lecture with a demonstration. He placed a glass next ... shattered with a bang. *In contrast to "ood", an alien species from Doctor ... we struck the glass, it would ring with a frequency identical to that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 9, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  This post is for incoming freshmen (with a slight bias toward ... started packing for your adventure and I hope you're shaking with excitement ... inundated with exciting possibilities. Much like CPW, you will be

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  so well after working with her on Tuesday and Thursday mornings for a ... as similar to the "American obsession with the final games of the World ... probing questions, and supplements the reading with her extensive and vast

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2011! how to be a blogger

  

  through. A blog, with pictures, forthcoming on that one.  and last ... millions of other people around the world, and Be comfortable with, or ... writing samples, along with some sort of verification for how frequently you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  your days don't end with grass stains on your knees. I'd like to suggest ... you can easily furnish your dorm room with exquisite, handcrafted ... ?You can also easily furnish your room with much more unique furniture, with

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Events

  (Paint)Ballin’ Hey, if you're already hosed, you might as well have a good reason for it

  

  it, every week with a test coupled with at least one or two p-sets has ... that with the fact that I didn't adhere to the end times of my study ... . A man with over 17 years of experience of designing maps threw

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Best (Work-Related) All-Nighter Ever Stressfully fun times at the Institvte.

  

  jazzy with an alto sax. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I spent 8 ... concept. With this in mind, I ended up translating a lot of this:   ... want here with the excuse of inserting Wikipedia links whenever I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 18, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  great opportunities for pre-med students, especially with several top ... career. You get to do research with some of the smartest people in the ... people and say, "hey, I'm interested in working with you - do you have any

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  explored a jungle (my living room) with a cape (a fitted sheet), and ran “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents ... straight from Albuquerque to Boston with no intermediate return home. The day

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  . Most users wanted to share things with their Friends like a status update, not the whole world. So we've stuck with the "Share" button, because ... ? Perhaps more precisely - would you be comfortable with something that looked

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010