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  Lunch with Madam President Guess who I got to eat lunch with today?

  

  a blogger outing to go get ice cream! Best day ever! Argh, now I have to find Adam and drag him back to his computer -- he got a two-day extension on a paper for 21A.100 that was supposed to be due yesterday, so I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... and killed on April 18, 2013, the Collier Memorial marks the site with a ... -way stone vault, each block supporting the other to create a central covered

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Wall A Lack of Color

  

  concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... could honestly be put to better use on a lot of things, but at the same ... paint a mural on the walls. Just another thing to think about when it

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 2, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  warmth. He had moved since high school to a new place that smelled ... crystallizing a core I'll hold on to forever, so that in four years I will reach ... had something new to give. My friends owned cars and had deeper voices

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  can’t stop smiling a time capsule for freshman fall

  

  ’d come home and lie on the floor for a couple hours to slowly recoup my ... ate a breakfast of cheese & crackers. I walked to my first class of the day, then spent my free hour on a hallway bench, then continued on

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s Going On Some of the 600+ Campus Preview Weekend events.

  

  the MIT admitted class of 2012. It's going to be a fun weekend. In ... Important note: the weather forecast has a 70%+ chance of rain Friday ... /or waterproof footwear! (Thursday looks to be beautiful, though) It's after

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... restaurant recently introduced a new kind of delicacy--the memelord burrito ... guaranteed to win no matter what, and subsequently decided to grace us with a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  (#MIN87) being at Bullhorn's new headquarters on the 17th floor of 100 ... student has been on a steady diet of chicken breast, ramen, and whatever ... retailer through their app, that retailer will donate money to a charity of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  really difficult for me because I had to be on camera for an hour and a ... first experience working on a pset for 10+ hours only to get a 50% is just ... a 33% on the last miterm to pass, AND GUESS WHO DIDN’T GET A 33

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  things, and I thought that led me to being a mechanical engineer. Fast forward a year, and I've had some new thoughts on the matter. I've always ... *Ahem*. When I applied to MIT, I put down on my application that my

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  start to tumble and spin, disorienting everyone on board, and (2) you ... on your strengths, you might coast through a few semesters at MIT too ... 've had to learn at MIT is: hitting a wall is okay!  Actually, it's great

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit

  

  think and comment publicly on science and technology, i.e. to be a public ... experience (unexpectedly) majoring in Science Writing and going on to become a ... designed to work as a complementary major for students majoring in science

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  'll attempt to do him justice in a few lines.  He is: a prediction wizard and ... consulting to poker to baseball to politics a sassy Twitter fiend not afraid ... only a median and a mode; because no number would be mean to Nate Silver

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  us know ASAP. Be sure to validate your Part 2 (on page 10) well ... validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to ... about documents that are not showing on MyMIT; we currently have a backlog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean ... ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  was like - being able to nerd out with genuine, wholesome people on a ... transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to returning to the rest of the world, or from the freedom of being a college

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Notes From The Middle Of Selection What interdisciplinary fields will exist 100 years from now? What will people be able to…

  

  here and over at College Confidential. Haven't had much time to hang out on the web, as we've been in selection committee since last wednesday. Though it's been a lot of work, I've been having a lot of fun. Selecting

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  own advice hehehe I stayed up all night to catch up on a problem set ... 's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... felt like trying to pop a stubborn, unpoppable pimple. Before anything

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  currently developing a bioreactor that may potentially be used to accelerate ... tissue. The goal of the project is to design a high-throughput device that ... . Reducing the pulsatility allows the cells to experience as close to a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  feelings from the summer I wish I could describe more accurately partially inspired by ducks, newburyport

  

  poetry to them; the excitement of starting a new chapter with a friend; the ... been ups and downs, I think it has been, on the whole, a pretty good ... piano a satisfaction in being able to play decently well, surprisingly

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 5, 2024