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• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  ironic to an outsider. “Believe deep down in your heart that you are ... , especially hard work, integrity, and service to the community, that make a safe ... together, have made and continue to make it great, and cannot be let go of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  you’re working it’s a lot more difficult to start an assignment than it is to continue working on it when your pen has already started moving ... it takes only hours to regain your stamina after running a marathon and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Early Applications… Things are getting busy here at MIT Admissions!

  

  to wait before reading your application. We will fully review every ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... pink) There are many, many applications to be reviewed. I know some of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 14, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  500 words first, which was the goal, but I was also trying so hard to win that I didn't do any editing or even make an attempt at decent typing. If this is the first blog post of mine that you're reading, I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... started rubbing off and making my feet black. There’s this video my parents ... (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  introduction to the medium. Your intervention will begin and end the story. But ... to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mathematics for Computer Science – “Top 10 Proof Techniques NOT Allowed” 6.042 has been a very engaging and entertaining class thus far.

  

  : An issue or two of a journal devoted to your proof is useful ... that the parts add up to the whole, but they sure do make something ... my approach to MIT (more on that later), I've finally figured out my

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  "make your own python". i'm having a lot of fun thinking about ... I'm up, you're drunk I wish I had no work today I wish I had no work ... about interpreters and category theory. but i don't want to do actual work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  make a decision about where to apply to is KILLING me. Now it's 3 ... with their advisors to sign up for classes. The day before the first day ... stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about physics, or midterms, or having

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  Fall 2019 Transfer Decisions Are Now Live

  

  your application account, and you can log in now to check your decision ... applicants who applied for entry during Fall 2019. You may access your decision at apply.mitadmissions.org—the same site where you submitted your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past ... physics, so I got to hear him speak 3x/week). Admitted students, log into your MyMIT portal, where you'll find the Class of 2009 guestbook

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  planning and lots of dedication, I was able to keep making progress on my ... growth. Blogging was hard — it was challenging to figure out how to start ... with writer’s block, so I called my parents today and asked them to share

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  From Markets to Math Class

  

  "treadmill" that MIT can be: Sometimes it's hard to take a step back. This is ... classes that everyone takes, not doing anything but your classes, doing all ... different or that you'd like to do and learn from), and then going straight

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 12, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  to make robot cars! I was heavily inspired by the line following robot ... up to make my life easier, but my desire for every student to bring ... to make the robot project happen, would check up on me between her own

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  to your preferences. Many of the folks I met during Campus Preview ... , "Love Your Beaver," are a tribute to MIT's mascot. Liquid nitrogen ice ... just beginning and he couldn't wait to see it all unfold. Here, he would

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  bloating their research reports with sentences that start to make less and ... opportunity to make an art piece before they move back into the dorm this fall ... would be too distracting, and any quieter spaces would only serve to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  stuff in your teeth.  That's grody, dude!" After Charm School: [whispers] Excuse me, you have something in your teeth. As you may know, MIT students sometimes get a bad rap with regards to social interactions.  We

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  couple of days, and it's time to take a break. As you wrap up your ... taking the time to enjoy your last semester in high school. I don't know ... the time in the last months of your high school life to appreciate the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008