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  MIT Regular Action Deadline Update Submit your MIT Part 1 and 2 by Jan 3, 2013 at 11:59pm EST

  

  details about the Regular Action deadline. Other than a few hours of ... school report form. To reiterate a few other things mentioned in previous ... ) arrive a little later. We're understanding and flexible with your teachers

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  known as His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama. Not just because he's a Nobel laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and ... people on stage couldn't help but laugh and smile. Neither could I - or a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Satisfaction New year= New opportunities/classes = Happy Kirsten

  

  to calculate internal forces and deformations. It's a neat class ... different support structures. I'll never be able to look at a bridge the same ... of moving objects. Rolling, oscillating, and spinning. You name a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 13, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  It has only been a couple of months since I left MIT Admissions for a ... Kendall/MIT stop on a daily basis, and I no longer spend my days with the ... special to me. The feeling of connection is a bit more complex. When I

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  My courseload this semester might look like that of a confused ... quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... 't really need it per say, but since I want to go into journalism, a writing

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields ... good with numbers. But hey, I'm surviving! And it's actually kind of a ... weird." I'm excited. Hopefully by the end of the semester, I'll be a fluid

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also ... rediscovering the meaning of the word “passion”. You see, when you’re playing a piece, you have a sheet of paper in front of you in black and white. You

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  nearly a year. Things perked up slightly when I walked into my Delta-provided hotel room and saw a beautiful queen size bed. I curled up and (1) watched ... into a dreamless sleep, and eight hours later, woke up to catch my flight

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  delicious it is), I forgot about my Saturday morning cartoons a few times and ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance ... :                                                                                           View from the second floor:     Splash is a day-long event in which

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

   internship gave me an incredible opportunity to not only understand a great deal about cellular biology, but also a chance to improve my French and learn ... leishmaniasis which can be fatal. The city: Paris has a lot to offer and

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Incentive to Drop Out Two MIT students get $100,000 and lots of opportunities in a two-year fellowship.

  

  than 400 people applied, a selection rate of less than 6%. The ... Foundation: Laura Deming wants to extend the human lifespan for a few more centuries—at the very least. She started working in a biogerontology lab when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  A few weeks ago, Susan Lanza (the undergraduate administrator for MIT's Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences a.k.a. Course 9) sent out the ... committees, different cast of characters. This is a very important process, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  the only way it knows how: through imitation (as flattery), and a hint ... other signs as possible. It seemed like a good idea at the time, until I ... 's a big metal eyesore: Outside the Chancellor's Office, there was a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anyone else OCD about saving space?? This blog is about things on my computer.

  

  , I want my free space. So that’s why architecture has been such a pain ... install a billion types of software. Over the last few weeks, I've had to ... -D; Note: every line has 10 segments, each segment has to be moved a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... finally feel prepared for the rain. I come from a place where rain means ... it finally became time to find a new solution. My solution for the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT on the road Admissions officers are visiting cities across the United States.

  

  MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk about admissions ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face-to-face and to set up a time for their interview. We will always finish with an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 11, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a quarter-based system). If your school uses a trimester schedule, please use ... February. Even with this information, questions about the Midyear Report (a.k.a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Balancing Life, School, and… More Life? Gotta start by taking advantage of Veteran's Day to... work... and, more importantly, BLOG!

  

  Ahhhh. Wednesday. Veteran's Day. A day FREE of classes. A one-day weekend! Wooohooo!!! Yesterday, I decided that today would be perfect for a ... SOMETHING today. So I made a nice schedule: I would wake up at 9:30ish, watch

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • November 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Where’s My Stuff? Updates from the MyMIT Application Tracking System.

  

  . We have a special envelope opening machine that is pretty awesome; non ... then entered into the computer system, one at a time, by the great ... ,000+ applications in a small space, so the filing can get a little crowded! When your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Things That Are Awesome (And have been keeping me from writing recently -- Sorry!)

  

  a great program in Course 6 (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at MIT, I am able to stay on to complete a Master's Degree. The M ... two degrees were completed sequentially, they would generally take a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 1, 2009