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• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  summer is a key time for us to travel, work on dormant projects, and take ... good guide to making the most of it here. I also met Ashu, one of the ... as I should have liked. I'll have to return at some point to get a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  ! Unfortunately, when you put in enough work to make a bomb calorimeter stop being a ... successful; working gives me a reference frame to force my thoughts into some ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  had the idea to measure me again. I had grown a quarter of an inch in a ... far less time than working a 9-to-5 job. We tend to say this to each ... , but during most of the semester, it’s a fight to floss my teeth every

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  awesome Nigerian food—how I missed that!—and looking forward to a wedding ... circular dancing to a synchronized warble my cousins shimmied to, the heavy ... something, and can optimistically make a mark in society. When deeply

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  was a huge success, more info on it later), taking daily trips to the Au ... Charles River on a spring morning. As I sit on the train from New York to DC, the fact that I’m going to be a *senior* is slowly, and painfully

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  posts ever. And to make it more random, have a comic that I drew while ... he was a much nicer guy), and we were given a four-day weekend to catch ... , to dress in cosplay and geek out with other fans, to go to a city where

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  -based rather than real-time, meaning you can take as long as you want to make ... a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards, and then all of the cards go to a discard pile. You add When the discard

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  from other talks. It's a nice way to learn about miscellaneous topics ... energy into their cavity on their way through, corresponding to a specific ... , picked up a piece of chalk, and turned to the chalkboard. Those of us

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  . On Friday, I went to a MISTI-Spain information session. The MIT ... a study break for members of the class of 2009 to provide feedback about what we want to see on our Brass Rat. The Brass Rat is a big chunk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  fun to make. Still, the isometric designs never coalesced into a solid ... you think about it, this blog is a way to reincarnate them. Perhaps this ... my subscription to [annotation note="Honestly? I’m a few months behind

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  the list, though, I do have a few quick things to say. For starters, I ... was applying, I realized that talking to another person - whether it's a ... committee wants you to be. Admittedly, students at MIT share a lot of common

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  beforehand and you have to make a slide about it. Then, they ask you follow up ... going to countless recruitment events and throwing my hat into a whole ... MITAdmissions Instagram account. The ultimate goal was to create a space that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2016 FAQ

  

  to follow up by mailing a fee waiver to us. Q: I am taking my tests ... be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 20, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The Google RISE Global Summit and some thoughts on STEM outreach.

  

  - kids seem to struggle with making the transition to a sincere "I want to ... , and/or make a sincere effort to reach out to the public and raise ... public outreach a gajillion notches - $11,906 worth of notches, to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... work on a tuesday to bash my head on the same bug i've been bashing my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happiness in threes

  

  , it will potentially involve re-programming a WiiMote. To that end, my coworker sent me some links to a project that his friend had worked on, which ... Okay, so I just figured out how to add the Spanish keyboard to my OS

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  i am overwhelmed. what happens when a pandemic, recession, racial reckoning and recruitment season join forces?

  

  I expected junior fall as a course 6 to be a challenging semester ... as an international student. Recruiting season feels like a make-or-break moment- the last chance you have to make use of your CPT before you

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 29, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  mentors, because I think I'm still a bit too young and foolish to be ... you have. If you get accepted to MIT, while it will probably give you a ... 's being empathetic or supportive or trying to make small choices that make

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  when I was going back to MIT, I couldn't help but sigh, just a tiny ... ) things like truffle-making lessons and a Mel Brooks movie marathon, all the ... to. Of course, not all students come back to MIT for IAP. A few of my

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  motivation musings as i look back on the year

  

  students at a high school tennis academy, teens who are striving to “make it ... else to do it right that second. It took about a month for it to be ... to Blue Hills twice, once for a 5-mile, relatively-flat loop, and once

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 7, 2022