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• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... Development, the program provides scholarships of $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 to ... , Philosophy or "Outside the Box." To apply, you must submit the Preliminary

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  your desk in the Reading Room to see a row of empty coffee cups and Red ... after your four years are up. Experience #1, an initially hesitant new ... of people (those in your major, those on your sports team, those in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  </> new) on all fronts and I hate first post (I've been labeling all of them ... 'm here now, so it's okay! Or something like that. Moving on to the point ... and buying all of your other meals gets really expensive really quickly

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  remains relevant to continuing ed-tech utopianism. However, if you're ... students be? According to Minerva's website, their admissions process will ... ) as opposed to the intellectual core of your class. Put another way: any

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Finding Balance May I have this dance?

  

  the line, and you learn quickly to take it in stride, get back on and ... slacklining, so I gather, lies in training your leg to counter-wobble against ... pairs, to stumble out the steps of the international rumba. Here in Lobby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  is called "the Infinite" (just run from New House to 26-152, the ... REAL bubble tea everyday? So it really hit me when I logged on to the MIT ... listening to them after people commented on my username!). However, I do have

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  swatches of MIT collected like paint chips

  

  I am going to put this together haphazardly, work on it in drips and ... . This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick ... weeks you read titles on the way to class. You are taking three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.

  

  be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I ... City 4. Pump your own gas 5. "Walk On The Wild Side" by Lou Reed Despite correct answers to four of the above questions (though we totally guessed on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  lead on the project i'm working on knows how to cad and do physics and ... quickly. it's kind of been something that's occupied, maybe four to eight ... two years; are we going to try new things or try to recover old

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  's taking on a new project, writing a computer program, or putting together a ... what already exists, always eager to make progress on the goals and ... to talk rather than do. On more than one occasion, I've taken on more

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  't enough for you or right for you, it's easy to start your own. Some past ... to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34-101. I was moving quickly down the hall last Thursday, not paying attention

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... about you to maximize your experience when you come here. For example, my ... we are so excited to see your faces in just two days! All of this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  , since the event was limited to members of the MIT community. If you’re ... -researched but also ridiculous (e.g. a paper on the best way to slice a ham ... authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  websites and documentation are more likely to use “MIT”—so much so that the ... Chance"]CXC[/annotation]… the list goes on. Trying to decipher these ... The Arts—while also giving you a chance to settle into your dorm early

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  conference. I had neighbors on the same floor. 419 to my 421. And quickly we ... passed (along with most of New Haven) on our way to Science Hill: By ... it I try not to walk around New Haven with an expensive camera slinging

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  “best move” depends on what cards your opponent is holding. Playing poker with a robot is like trying to play chess without knowing where your ... to tell our bot to guess at what cards the other bots held based on how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  doesn’t matter (e.g. has no impact on our decision) when you choose to ... applicants to find inventive new ways to complete the application both in ways ... subjecting the entire admissions committee to your well-intended, albeit

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  . On Sunday night, we made an impulse decision to watch High School ... looming 9AM only three hours away. Needless to say, we passed out on the ... tired to do so. I slept around 2. I woke up on Friday at 7:45, hurriedly

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  even took it. That means it's impossible to have an F on your first ... 3) Nothing is new anymore During your first semester at MIT you'll be ... took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  (towards the end of the camp, the counselors try to do 30 distinct proofs on ... to Ojai that summer, and I remember looking back on "Graduation Day" at ... consider your upcoming summer: *Is there something that I like to do and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008