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  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  colleges. If we sign the admissions contact to another college by May 1st ... presume if i got rejected from MIT, I will probably get rejected from the ... action would be if you don't meet the criteria to apply as a freshman -- e

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... , in my book) that could get away with using Comic Sans (the other being ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  my camera to the concert (which was held in our gym). It turns out that ... find someone who lived nearby to stash it so that I'd be able to get in. As a result, I don't have any pictures to post. =( Anyway, the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  interview form and we will be sure to get the interview report. Midyear ... some brief updates. Sandy: If you have been affected by the storm, for ... . The same goes for materials submitted by your teachers, counselor, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  arranged by MIT. This IAP, I decided to follow the same format and seek out a ... 're having fun =p) Following the "tradition," I've decided to spend this IAP ... Japanese couple who loves to travel (the grandmother, at 67 years, is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  by now, too paranoid to look at the calendar ("oh my goodness, it ... other. It's all about what you want to get out of the program. And (wow ... bottom. Here at MIT, it's rapidly coming down to the end. In a week and a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment ... that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in ... of interactions, so we get to manage our contact with co-workers, local

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  you get to MIT. I've seen how this is true for some. But for me, the ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front of the sink. I'm going to miss nights like these. Then we trekked to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my ... , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe ... 've got six days to choose a grad school. I've got it narrowed down to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  fanfiction of side characters in your own story, to get excited about the world ... they desire. There’s Intro to String Theory, Ballet in the Soviet Union, and How to Stay Private on the Internet, the list goes on and on.  MG

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... several of my MIT friends were incredulous when I explained it to them. By now, though, I've learned to use the word "soda" in New England to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  than an hour to get there from the fifth station. It was probably the ... stopped to get some of the best hot chocolate I have ever had in my life ... Station that we were literally standing in line to get to the top of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  bit, as we all get ready for the day. … After my first class, I meet up ... ’s fall but the weather is still nice. We go to a nice part of campus and just eat some food and joke around.” As you might be able to tell by

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  speculation also a post about touching grass

  

  think more slowly when under social pressure or if the right way to answer ... factor might be that the presence of other people forces me to think at a higher level of rigor than i’m used to the other day i called a stranger

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  yet i maintain composure manu tenere “i hold by hand”

  

  by that night. by the end of the night, it was clear that esp had to ... upon hours of planning and effort to get the programs running this far ... to class. i ate lunch with professor bucci, organized by the office of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  , give yourself a hand. It's the MIT experience, and you'll get to live it ... Boston and Cambridge invited 76 teams of spoken word artists to engage the stage and compete to be the year's top poets. MIT was even lucky to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.

  

  complaints about foul odors and damage to the dorms caused by animals. "We had ... . "Sometimes the custodian will hear it crying or scratching to get someone ... MIT's four cat-friendly dorms (please note that the other seven are to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  theory is about making messy systems behave the way you want them to behave ... class in space systems engineering) have led to real systems for the ... to understand the world, but trying to understand how other people make

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: Cologne by Haux       The last ... exams looming the following week, I did have something to look forward to: I was to spend Christmas at home for the first time since I left for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... to the third largest Cambodian community in the world behind Phnom Penh ... interesting (at least to me). In the film, all three teens were from low income

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005