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  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  , mechanical pencils, and glitter fairy stickers to put on my problem sets. I ... feels a little like this right now (mouse over): I’m trying to take on ... on the floor I realized I was in the wrong classroom, and the right

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  graduates on to highly selective schools, I wasn't really sure of what I was doing. Largely, I applied to the top schools on the east coast that did ... the college of my choosing. On this second and more thorough trip to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours later, we hopped in her car with bags full of clothes and went on an adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Tim Is So Beautiful to me

  

  two. We played rock band in 10-100 together (enough to get rock band ... Earlier this month we launched one of our new admissions videos ... people. But there's one person I'd like to thank specifically. Michael

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  your head is that of punks standing on a street corner in a bad 80s teen ... possible they weren't joking? On the T, I started to hear more of the story ... revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m Shipping Up to Boston and I lost my leg! Whoah oh oh..

  

  mountain, to making s'mores on a bonfire on the beach; from learning to ... Nick, on his newly furry face) Tomorrow, it's back to numbers, p ... Tomorrow morning I fly back to MIT, and I'm writing to you with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  , and I had to leave before the second round finished to get some ... the bible to free food, free stuff, parties, meetings, and other activities that spanned the course of the four days. Have nothing to do? Look

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... . It meant that I got to work on something that I got excited just ... using your resources to implement an idea rather than the results. The

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pursuing multiple fields

  

  matter what your major is, you have to get credit for 8.01 (Physics 1), 8 ... literature but I'm concerned that it will be too tough to try to get degrees in ... ), then you're looking at around 84 units beyond the GIRs. Add that to your

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fig. 4: Study with me! A semi-productive Sunday afternoon vlog (feat. an hour trying to find a printer)

  

  get a summer break -- or have the opportunity to do internships, MISTI ... Grüezi mitenand! Thought I'd give you all a quick update on how life ... 'm already returning back to the US end of next week. This week is also the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  Center are thronging with people - and I know thing are only going to get ... Come one, come all to CPW! I don't know about you guys, but the energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Contest Continues Contest wrapup.

  

  So in response to the death of Pluto as a planet, I am undertaking a campaign to revise the mnemonic and change history books with YOUR HELP Here are the finalists. Cast your vote for your favorite! A. My Very

  • by Bryan
  • September 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Changes To Your MyMIT Account The no-online-notification thing may change in the future, but unfortunately not this year.

  

  A quick response to some of the questions we've been receiving: you won't notice any change to your MyMIT account until we're confident that everyone has had a chance to receive his/her decision via mail (or telephone

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... if we extend the situation to an unequal loss of lives depending on the ... , directs the train to a different rail, which happens to have one person on

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  1.1 miles as the crow flies and it takes me forever to run there

  

  classes, how to manage the ridiculously hard one so that I don’t skimp on ... . I feel like I’ve slogged through so much high school just to get to ... on time, I run from my apartment to the Charles river. I cross the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... inconvenient. The headway's on the scale of half-hours or hours. If your ... most reasonable option to get places. The size of the Bay Area also

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... fascinating, not the least because I get to see Winnie-the-Pooh cartoons (in ... Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  engineering to create a new biological engineering discipline. Many other ... , I ate at the brand new Steam Cafe, a very yummy new dining option! I ... paired on the same subcommittee today. In other news, while we were in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... "You're good to submit!". I was kind of doubtful seeing as how quickly I ... different kind of anxiety -- a waiting game. A countdown to 9AM on December 15

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex but there wasn’t any room to do that in the Back Bay. In search of a new ... quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016