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• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  honor of that anniversary, I'd like to hear your stories. I know you all ... a month. I was barely reading the blogs, just trying to get two ... wanted at least some way to mentally prepare before I read the words on the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  her talk on aneuploidy, I just had to go. Firstly, I just learnt about ... assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Credit for Reddit i am internet and so can you

  

  because in order to teach you have to know your stuff, and because through ... was working on my thesis I put out a call for a UROP to help me collect ... group projects to encourage students to get their hands dirty and try

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 29, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  When it Rains It Pours

  

  worked it out such that I'll get a new hard drive mailed to me, completely ... computer. I'll have to get Microsoft Office and Mathematica shipped to me ... and skip straight to what the end of the semester at MIT is actually

  • by Snively '11
  • May 6, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer ... wonderful way to take my MIT journey above and beyond! Living and working in Germany was a perfect opportunity to jump into a different comfort zone

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we'll hold on to it until the rest of your application comes in. The same goes ... recommendation gets to MIT before anything else?" I'd like to answer all questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet ... I graduated, but somehow never found the time to do so. Now, on the ... experience - you get stranded on this island in Massachusetts Bay, have these

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  . Take walks without your headphones on. Wake up to watch sunrises. Take ... your work aside and stress about the things you have to do. I don't mean watch an episode of Gilmore Girls  either. Don't try to turn your mind off

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch ... left to right: Nick, Peak, Jijun, Johann, Mike, Donald, Amber, Kenny (MIT '11?), Ilang (Wellesley '09) In case you're wondering, here are some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Falling in Love with a Language at MIT interviews with two of my inspirations

  

  experience new places, but it was so fun to rely on the Chinese language to ... Really Good Chinese. I got to know him better last January on an IAP trip ... ashamed. Past the guilt, however, I can't help but feel inspired to hold on

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... need to get it through the limited working/short-term memory. There, we ... , according to Prof Mahajan, the rule of thumb is: if you get a quadratic

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  being in a completely new city. Maybe it was getting to know people from ... you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... foundation for the confidence you carry. And your low points remind you to take

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  , every time I get on social media, every hour, every day. And of course I ... , one of the country’s larger news websites. Then it was refusal to renew ... party for dozens, he gets to walk free. In two different senses, I feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  , mention your CC name. Or something. Also feel free to PM me on CC or email ... wearing open-toed flip flops. *shakes head* Then, on Thursday night, I had ... , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... that's specifically designed to get lots of sign-ups, kinda like search ... two years; are we going to try new things or try to recover old

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice ... of us humming "I'm on a boat," eagerly awaiting our opportunity to be ... hips to the hokey-pokey. (he doesn't know this video is on the

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  enough to do it on your own. Since this class, I have been trying to make ... ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... , with padding around the bar-rope joints to protect your joints. The only

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.

  

  A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story ... alternately hosted by Marsha Bolton from the President's Office and myself. To

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I O Europe Help me, blog stalkers, you're my only hope.

  

  worried little kid, because we all had to line up at stations and get our ... getting to page 104 in The Giver, making me the only person at MIT who was ... on their website. See for yourself. BWAAAAA!! And yeah, graduation was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  , you add me to your list of friends on Thefacebook ;) Your important ... check the MIT directory to get a preliminary idea. If your first name or ... . Back in the fall of 1996 (we had to wait until we were on campus to get

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005