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  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is subsidized and offers financial aid. Here's a little more about them: Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... real holiday falls on a Sunday. So you should be able to submit stuff ... will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two ... Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... life?" I was a bit down in the dumps when I got this email from my mom

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  , very loosely stitched together because I gave up on trying to have a ... timer on a carton of milk and a slab of chicken waiting to be thawed. An ... the moisture steamed off, trying to loop into a point I couldn’t quite

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  corridor” has taken on new meanings for me. at mit it refers to a long ... live with a large number of friends, though instead of a dorm with 18-to ... brutal. i was reeling from moving to a new city and living in a house with

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life Update It's been an amazing year!

  

  out. With no one to provide monthly reminders of what a well kempt hair ... year he used his computer skills to obtain an internship at a local ... hop around the world. Afterwards I was able to take a picture with the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Antici A long time ago in a suburb far away...

  

  was too young and stupid to know what a postmark was. That's probably ... clothing (a la Gwen Stefani). Sorry, trying to find motivation to keep doing ... "abogado," or "lawyer." This is because the Spaniards who came to the New

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wow, work! Mid-IAP update.

  

  took a week of going to bed at 8PM and getting up at 4AM to shock me back ... from French homework to sit down and write to you, but I think it's time. Class has been going well. It's a significant effort commitment, but it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  title of the film, Monkey Dance, refers to a classical Cambodian dance ... Mira Nair came to speak last year and kind of offered my friend a role in ... Julie Mallozzi to do a screening of her film at your school. It's a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  Louisiana that left him with a hard-coded aversion to any kind of violence ... to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... introduction: to the tens of thousands of FIRST participants around the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  until September for this kid! (I have a feeling part of my inability to ... asked Professor Housman to talk a little about his career and the things ... all "oh, I've been fortunate to work on a few diseases and discover some

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Inherent Asymmetry Around.

  

  I'm not going to grad school next year, but I am taking the GRE's in physics this saturday. Few things I'm doing to prepare for it: sleeping < 3 hours last night to drastically shift my sleep schedule into

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  write your letter, and to have a conversation about it. This is a much ... also a good time to tell them about why you're applying to each school ... these conversations very helpful. If a teacher asks you to write the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to ... about it soon. 9.00 Intro to Psychology. I don't show up to a single lecture. I don't do a single reading. I go to recitation and look at optical

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  family to go to college, and being from a town that sent few of its ... admitted to, MIT. I had briefly visited MIT during a previous trip to another ... very interesting jobs, I choose to take a job here in the MIT Office of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ... Admissions blogs. 20.219 Becoming the Next Bill Nye was to end with a ... : one, a professional grey to match my shirt, and the other a neon yellow

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  math blog, but I thought it would be interesting to write it again for a different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... is a class I absolutely need to graduate. (I won't bore you with

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... was even more alluring because the MSA invited Yasir Qadhi to present a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  i dropped os 🎉 i'm a hass boi this semester

  

  . it did wonders for my mood, and it was a chance to de-stress. i decided ... jynnie, but a bunch of 2E alums are coming as well! i've never been to the UK -- i'll try to take lots of pictures. even though i'll be a little

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Physics Prof. Peter Fisher on Conan A freshman physics professor helps the late night talk show host break a record. [with…

  

  light shows, a visit to the doctor, a turtle race, and ring spinning. In ... a much larger problem. How to travel through time! Prof. Fisher: We ... airing without the benefit of writers, due to the strike (soon to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2008