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  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "I'm so confused. MIT has a beaver? But so does Caltech." Right. The ... for ISEF this year?" Yes! I'm looking forward to the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair (ISEF) next month. I'll be around the public

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  I get a lot of questions about it's like to major in "Computation and Cognition," known around MIT as Course 6-9. In this post, I'll describe my ... overall. Table of Contents How I Chose Course 6-9 Before MIT

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  fascinating. Watch them below! I wanted to blog about TwT for a while, and ... T: I am half Iranian and I drink a lot of tea. One day I was having tea with a friend of mine and lamented on the fact that I did not really have

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  SSP aka summer science program aka summer sleep program aka silly science people aka summer solstice…

  

  one for me. After a full year of virtual school, I had lost touch with many of my middle school friends, and I was slowly realizing that I had ... meet people outside of the bubble I was in.  Any fears I might have had

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  an absolutely non-comprehensive guide to email sign-offs or, how to inject some fun into an otherwise boring routine

  

  chat yet."]Until very recently,[/annotation] I was the president of Next House, the dormitory where I live. The role of dorm president is often a ... Next Exec, I sent probably around 70 emails to our dorm's official

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 9, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  decision. I tend to go to bed pretty early these days, which precludes me ... this blog post, I’ll take you along on an adventure I had last Friday ... . From the moment I stepped inside, I knew it wouldn’t be my last. To quote

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  I didn't leave the MIT bubble much my freshman year. hell, I barely left my dorm. there was so much going on all the time that I didn ... , however, I spent a good chunk of my free time exploring Boston, and made a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  I feel like I’ve been involved in science bowl forever. In 8th grade, my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I ... explained by watching an example match. But I moved to Nevada after middle

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  Final year at MIT is done! I don’t miss it… yet. But the realization ... adult. For now, my life hasn’t changed. I have a summer job at MIT ... and lacks the permanent feeling of a full-time job offer. Right now, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... , probably. I want to talk about The Dorms though, because, a) It’s housing renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  Last April, as part of a high school assignment, I was required to ... decisions (of which I will write soon) ensued, but one entry, written on a ... ever. In summary: because CPW. But here is more (from April 8, 2014): I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  :                                                                         October 17, 2014 7:30am- Normally I wouldn't get up this early, but today I ... . I think about what I'm supposed to do today and open up my laptop to check my emails and start rolling out of bed. I hadn't ever had a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  &A session, but I'm sure that Neil would be happy to stick around for a few ... fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , Maryland, down the road from Goddard Space Flight Center, where I'll be ... ) before second semester start in February. And I'm alone. No classmates down ... . Last Friday, my older brother (MIT '11) and I took off from San Francisco

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where ... systems research and development, c) exciting, by which I mean "Stargate SG ... , right? Also, true to form, I have returned bringing you something of a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  flooded into my soul: ernestly did I remind Katelyn of our valuable Facebook ... . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  -tasting water on campus. Last Sunday, I filled up two entire bottles of sweet ... nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... some other people, whoever they might be. I mention this only because it

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  As I mentioned earlier, Neil Gaiman is coming to MIT! The lecture he ... Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. In terms of my personal excitement level, I ... goes. Originally, I just planned on showing up to the lecture and maybe

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  amazingness. I know I've been holding back and not telling you what my toy is ... revealed, where I tell you exactly what my team and I have been working on for our entire second semester. Sit back, it was a crazy night! I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who ... whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of ... 're looking for? I remember reading a comment last year on one of the blogs

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006