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• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start ... asked Justin to write a little guest entry too, so he wrote a really nice ... Minsky, and my future image of myself was in a white coat tinkering with

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... our customer," and MEAN it this time. I could tell you a story about a traveler who arrived at the wrong airport after a trip four times longer than

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other ... less broken by MIT. It's like the difference between a tasty avocado* and

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time ... been rather silly to create a blog that no one would read. Nonetheless, I ... tagging along with my host—a fellow artist/dancer and a Course 20

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  descend upon the MIT campus... CPW Events Wow, there are a lot of cool things going on. Here are a few that caught my eye in the CPW schedule ... more, taught in a fun/crazy style by MIT students. Awesome music at ZBT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political ... wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high ... one where Spock says "Logic is a little bird, chirping in a meadow." So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Wallace Fennel exposited that he wants to be a mechanical engineer. And that ... I'm just going to have to accept that. Still, I could use a little ... 500th word. Will that happen to mine? If I have a really good 505-word

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

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  on their psets due the next morning, crack a bad joke or two (and when we're on a roll, even the occasional good one), put on long stretches ... like little girls for about a week beforehand. What if we screwed up

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  I warn you: this is a depressing entry. Last week I finally finished ... of a scientist she was until I read the book. Hell, I didn't even realize she was a scientist. I never really thought about it much, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  destiny forward one step at a time. But in a way, the past eight months have been an excursion. Sure, I've learned a lot, but I've also renewed my ... to be viewed as a successful scholar, you first must prove you can

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  Some parents wrote to me and asked me to contribute my opinions to a ... ' forum, I'll try to respond both as an MIT adcom and also as a parent. This ... in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Somebody Else Seven undergrad blogs not enough for you? Now some of them have multiple authors.

  

  '07) to write a guest blog entry. It might not make for the best guest ... , having just wrapped up an STS UROP, now contemplating a second major of Urban Planning, having declared a HASS concentration in Economics, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  So. It’s been a while since I last was on the blogs, speed writing about a new experience. During my writing hiatus, over this past summer, I did a thing. And it was a pretty cool thing to be a part of if I do

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  today yesterday [annotation note="so i started writing this post a ... other stuff. so this may be a little late. im too lazy to change the rest of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  sailing. Before you argue with that, go spend a few hours lying outside, and let yourself rotate under the stars. On a good night in Boston, I see ... you're interested, a B8 III blue giant with a prominent mercury

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  Period) are spent ensuring everyone has a common base of experimental ... is a test-run for the workflow of a “full” experiment. For the intro ... 15 hours) but you still give a full 15-minute presentation and write a

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  This is a guest blog post from the MIT Panhellenic Association, which ... sorority recruitment (and I am not in a sorority). However, I think that these organizations are a distinctive part of MIT student life and can

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  Last Thanksgiving break, a few of my friends and I visited Acadia ... Massachusetts (like most US states) allows driving with a foreign license printed ... dismay, a Google search revealed that Maine only allows driving with a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... a more authentic state (even if i cringe reading it now).  i remembered this draft's existence when i found myself writing a similar

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  -variable calculus at my local community college. I began to feel like a real college student (at least, for a high school student). But I remember sitting in ... ?", which was a question quickly followed up by: "wait,,,, what do

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024