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  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza ... Cookie to top it off. Yum. College is when they stuff you in a chef’s apron and tell you it’s time you learn to make your own lunch. You

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break A week in Iceland.

  

  quick post about that experience, written as I continue to deny the fact ... : Here we are at Gullfoss! From left to right: Ryan B. '18, Mitchell G. '18 ... ". On the second day we drove to the village Vík, where our hotel for the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  MIT to work for Amazon for a semester meant that quite suddenly, I had a lot more time on my hands than I was used to. I went to one of those ... when I got to MIT. I took 72 units my sophomore fall (counting Unified

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  Hello Everyone! Firstly, I’d like to publicly apologize for not ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be more frequent ^^”). What I actually want to talk about today is really

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  Gordon Engineering Leadership Program. Thank you to everyone who applied. Reading your applications was a huge joy to all of us, and the final ... is planning to major in course 6 or course 18, in part to find out what

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists ... your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said ... a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors

  

  Cambridge. Here's a handy chart I threw together to show contact time at MIT ... essay, pset style questions, or past exam problems. The goal is to finish ... have time to grade it and provide feedback. What actually happens in the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  live in Boston are preparing to enjoy the marathon on this coming Monday ... starts tomorrow. It is always wonderful to see so many parents on campus taking part in events that will help them to know what MIT is like, just

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it began, how he spent his time here, and now what he is continuing to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  turned 25. It's an interstitial age. I'm halfway to what is called "middle ... expectancy. I'm out of college myself, but people I went to school with are ... defined. Almost all my colleagues are older than me - I love to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  19 Summers AHH I'm getting old :(

  

  pre- high school days, skip down to Summer 13 (the numbers correspond to my age at the time). *It took me forever to write this sentence. Ideas on how to pluralize things like "June" and "July"? I had to stop myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Lectures I had two ideas for good blog posts, and both were stolen by other bloggers!

  

  uncluttered to touch. That's how I feel about the new MIT admissions website. I ... humble observations about the Institvte! And yet I have things I want to ... switching back ends. I get to learn a whole new process for bringing my words

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  knowledge…we are almost like the people of Babylon. We are able to communicate ... different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the ... introduce us to the story of Simon Powers, a wealthy entrepreneur and inventor who resolves to download himself into the System after mortality

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... . And below, I've provided answers to some additional FAQs: The deadline ... documents from the applicant. The MyMIT Tracking is up-to-date (while the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Remember? A Blast from the Past

  

  I like it: 7.013 (Intro to Bio) has been kind enough to assign psets ... .00 (Psych) is filled with cool videos, neat facts, and references to one of ... they're awesome. For 21W.755, I get to write a short story every week

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 16, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  . Everybody gets to publish, everybody gets to read, and everybody gets to respond. College admissions offices employ standard USPS snail mail to ... doorstep and as you flip through them, page by page, you get to see aspects

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  only does he admit us to MIT, he actually really cares about us after we're admitted, as well. His office is almost always open to us (assuming he's around! He's a busy guy, after all), whether it's to chat, to get advice or

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  Classes are saying farewell as it's finally starting to feel like ... , and feeling all right about it because I only had to be somewhere in the ... few hours ago. I found a place to live this January when I'll be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little more snark in my life, you think? Responses to Comments Nur asked: Just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006