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• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  feature for your UROP by tomorrow. Cut the things that don’t matter and ... point to watching movies even if you forget about the details, and for the ... to leave them. For most decisions, the specific details of the pros

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  have made surrounded by those who will soon become your pals for life. ... . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  powerfully beautiful to me. Thanks Kevin, for this :D I think there’s a point ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  , overtaken by an art installation open common space spanning 3rd to 5th ... Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... , Euripedes - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library brought to Egypt by the noodle*'s ancestors! How can we sleep for grief?" Septimus: "By

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the ... (floating platforms for deep sea wind farms). "Enjoy that metaphor, by the ... President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  friend Kristen made gingerbread houses for hall to decorate It's rainbow ... ! 🖤🖤 Conversations about death are important but censored by society so thanks for enabling ... night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  around the world to raise awareness and money for campaigns and charities ... 't mean for this to be uber-serious or anything. Just something to keep in ... I've recently had the opportunity to see three MIT productions - I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  ’ve had a lot of chances to practice!). We are at Ben ‘12’s house for dinner ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More!

  

  week. The rules are simple, what I post needs to be something that you ... . Amazing Spider-Man 2 I was lucky enough to see this movie on April 12th(I realize this was a few weeks ago but it's still making me happy), thanks to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  like Java's rebellious younger cousin, you can only eat oatmeal for so long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ming-fai Fong- Designing an intelligent walking “toddler” robot After learning to sit, bend their knees, squat, and stand, babies can finally gather the…

  

  little bit of control in how to use these muscles." By creating a ... Science graduate and was looking for a Mechanical Engineering student to ... cherish the memory for the rest of their lives. Senior Ming-fai Fong, a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  later that the hike up to Jesus is infamous for robberies. Thank you, stranger! By this point, it was raining, so I suggested that we go to the ... mood for some R&R. We added Feyi to our travel crew and drank some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  I think I have ever had and told me to go make sandwiches for myself ... , but as I was getting ready for bed I heard the sound I will forever ... James N. Murphy award, "for MIT employees whose contributions to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the MIT Interview keep b r e a t h i n g

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning ... :08 Our deadline 0:22 What happens during an interview 1:30 What to wear 2 ... ???? 5:41 Quick tips for the interview

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My First Astrophotography Courtesy of 12.409

  

  Dear current and future MIT students, There is a class you need to ... : pass, get a D, or fail). You learn the basics of amateur astronomical observing: sketching, assembling a telescope, using a telescope and a map to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 22, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection Day 3

  

  Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to be shorter (ending ~4pm) and we get breaks when we need them. During one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  campus. It's therefore extremely conducive to studying...and for taking the occasional nap =P I creepily just used PhotoBooth to get a few photos of ... I'm the kind of person that likes to make lists - partially because I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s here! The post you've all been waiting for, or at least until you saw Snively with…

  

  and the i3 DVD has gone out to the class of 2014 everywhere. For those ... . Well, we finished the something awesome months ago, but we wanted to keep it under wraps until its official release. Today, I'm finally able to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  they need to have positions/titles like that to compete for admission to ... come to MIT for his postdoc work. When the grad student said he planned ... . Thanks to those of you who read and commented! I then realized I shouldn

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011