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  Be a Blogger 2016! how to be a blogger

  

  . MIT operates by setting a very high standard of admission to the ... might want to be bloggers to SHARE YOUR SPECIAL TALENTS What does it mean to be an admissions blogger? Here is the opening paragraph from the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 28, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  I have known for some time that my approach to things can be unconventional.  You don't have to look any further than how I parent to really get ... ,  in favor of blank pages that forced them to create their own images

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  team died and I didn't get to participate during my senior year, which ... with any questions you might have about it, and I'll be sure to get back ... the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meow Yes, you can have cats in some dorms.

  

  they do something you don't like, it's hard to get angry at them because ... windowsill to get a better view. * Dr. Popular can make every noise possible ... walking over your face because he/she needs to get out. * Besides having no

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 9, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  changes to a codebase on github."]PR[/annotation] to separate CKP logs by ... at home. this naturally means i'm going to go out to get ramen ... 8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking ... thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... Expectation: There is no way I’m getting into MIT, let alone becoming

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  -changing experience. It is a myth that you must do a summer program to get into college ... you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you ... school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  homesickness. College is a new experience to most people when they first get ... 's various dormitories. (I didn't get a chance to photograph East ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... college applications, but I looked at it as an opportunity to get to know ... class was sobbing, and these contagious tears caused me to get "all worked

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  take a gap year, or scramble to find a job. We didn’t get to participate ... voice. But by the end of the song, she enthusiastically decides to go ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  #funhogging the best thing I did over IAP. also: INFINITE ICE CLIMBING GIF

  

  It's easy to get overwhelmed at MIT.  From the pressure cooker of ... funhogging: to take more than one's fair share of fun When I was a kid, one of my favorite things to do was to browse photos of mountain

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send ... that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which works out to $9.00/hour, when you are funded by the UROP office. Need to ... easiest way to get a UROP, most people will be more willing to hire you and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  by rocky peaks[/caption] To get to the top of the cliff, you have to ... I've never been to Seattle before. One of the things I love about college is how many opportunities you get to live in a new place for a month

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Smaller than the eye can see but with the potential to change the world: nanotech!

  

  that could lead to substantial energy savings by allowing more efficient ... professor Ned Thomas. Hopefully you get the picture…the list above is by no ... explore the field is to get a UROP in one of the many labs that do nanotech

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... to fly by for no reason at all - but I also know people that run like a ... for literally 5 minutes to go get something. Fortunately, I recovered

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  mean, I think we all do. No one wants to get on a stage and forget their ... made such comments to explain why they didn't get in. I wish it didn ... This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by ... two foils by making two model detectors to assess each foil's properties ... from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  towering, thick oak trees were anything to go by. There weren’t any sidewalks ... body to get out of bed at my 8:30a.m. alarm"]I’d once wake up at 5 ... Price Rd. to get onto Olive Blvd. and I couldn’t help but think about how

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told to quiet down by the night security guard, only the night security ... tunnels to get from Building 54 to the main academic buildings without going

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005