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  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  ! So awesome! On that note, what does everyone think of the new season ... that sometimes when you apply online, you have to keep your essays under ... as I can tell. In your MyMIT account, if you go to Section 8 of Part

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but ... 't need to pack your schedule with APs to get into a good school. You know

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  when it's to protect their young. Right on cue, shortly after we hopped ... gravelly. I hopped on rocks even when there was flat ground to walk on. I had ... also remembered that if a snake chases you, you're supposed to run in a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  You know, a while ago, Mitra did an entry on how to write a winning ... for you regular applicants to start writing your essays for all of your ... prompt for this essay was to write a letter to your mother. Now, I'm not

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  hooky more than I ever did. But when your mother is begging you to call in ... reminded me that I needed to come pick up my cute new cheerleading t ... grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  -- spots on campus 18.03 recitation (but don't date your TA until after ... about on your first date Toscanini's -- because I have a free ice cream ... of your dorm -- it's not so hard to find the way out from here Park

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• 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.

  

  ThirtyEight) "It's easy to compete with stupid." (on why he's been able to beat the ... baseball to politics was like) "If you're making a true prediction, you're putting your opinion on the line.  You're testing if your perceptions have a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Watch the 2.009 webcast tonight at 7PM ET! the premier product design class at MIT

  

  . From the website:  In 2.009, Product Engineering Processes, [150] students work in large teams of approximately 20 individuals to design and build working alpha prototypes of new products. Students learn about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 12, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  realize that you’re only going to be as good as you believe you can be. I ... Market to stock up on food in case I couldn’t get out during the blizzard ... ”. I needed a new approach. Sardine oatmeal was just not going to cut it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  and I quickly bonded Friday afternoon on our drive to Seoul due to our ... projects. And here I am on a plane. I haven’t been back to New York since ... to South Korea for two weeks to work on a project. In the words of one

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Questions from Beyond one last blog

  

  ="someone decided i should be a director. what?!"]new job[/annotation] and I was just curious if I still had access to things from my old job. Because you're ... continue to grow and with growth comes different perspectives and new

  • by kellen manning
  • July 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... allowed them to make a tremendous amount of noise from above on Tetazoo (3E ... say hi to your local cruft!

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach ... on your face or completely screw up and end up tearing apart the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  from here when I lived on campus, so really this used to be my local ... . Along with my friends and my roommates, I've been on a mission to actually ... you could get to on the T, therefore saving us from having to pay for a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] 8.13 Junior Lab feat. aidan chambers '23

  

  begin on experiments with the level of detail you’re expected to for this ... background events in your detector, leading to a lot of trial and error on our ... universities will offer lab courses in addition to your introductory Physics

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  that they would be erecting a new building dedicated solely to cancer ... - and I'm incredibly excited to be a part (however small) of the new ... Biology Angelika Amon to investigate the effects of aneuploidy on

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  student center, to get her new ID card. And now I'm sitting on my bed. In ... Observatory to give talks, mine on pulsars and Raphael's on the exploration of ... longer living in Charlottesville. I said goodbye to the brick house on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  to wrap your collective heads around: 1) MIT students really like to ... do your work. When you have nothing else to do, you might be more inclined to waste time on the internet. A blatant plug for cheerleading An

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  walked. and so the idea slowly came to me: what if i just kept on walking ... approach would be to just use a random number generator on each square meter ... wouldn’t be able to swim across it. so i crafted a boat, hopped on, and

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Otra Vez, Como Siempre Some J-Pop to cheer you up. =p

  

  Square to New House (well, more accurately, MacGregor*, but close enough ... enjoyable drama (to waste time on while procrastinating for psets, lol =p) and ... Todai on big poster boards in front of the campus and you have to go to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 12, 2008