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• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  Every so often, during the Q&A portion of an MIT information session, I am asked a question like this: Is it true that MIT has the ... ; in fact, MIT is better than the national average1. However, this is a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On ... wonders of educational television, I wanted to be a cosmologist like Stephen

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  were: Introduction to Art History, Rhetoric (a different version from the ... at length about each class, although I do want to write about a few ... ." "Wow, you must be getting a 5.0 this term!" FALSE. HASS classes

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  I'm ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh** Well, I kinda wish I'd been ridin' on a dolphin, doin' flips and sh**, but I wasn't. Instead, I ... 's how it works. Every year our dorm pays for us to go on a really nice

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... yourself as well: Try and get a good grasp of what the card is saying

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... wasn't how I wanted to end my career. I took a long break away from the ... .   II. A month and a half into the semester, Spring 2018, I reached

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT has a radio station!? [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Yes, it's true!

  

  , hard rock/metal and classical music. Here is a sample playlist: "Quartet ... is the limit. My radio show is a highlight of my chaotic week—it's a time where I'm forced to sit down, relax, and enjoy music. And you

  • by ARTalk
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  you all through that with me. For a brief overview into my different ... Taylor Swift, a lot of Taylor Swift Avril Lavigne Justin Bieber One ... reality who the fuck cares what music i like?? I also have a very strong

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  As a resident of Simmons, one of the farthest dorms from [annotation ... are"]Main Campus[/annotation], I spend a lot of time walking. But “a lot ... make it to class (mostly) on time? What routes do I walk on a regular

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... . That name is Harvard. Harvard has another feature, known as a wide ... Latinx studies, to a literature class on dystopian novels. However, looking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a small moment in time on failing...*very long sigh*

  

  to walk through. In my head was a mix of regret, anger, sadness ... my whole identity around my confidence. So, in a way, the world I had ... chapter of The Prophet when I first read it. I held on to it for a future

  • by kellen manning
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  ? Should I still be hanging around reading the blogs? At MIT, a deferral isn't just a "polite rejection." Your application will ... , regardless of when the application was submitted. (A little historical data

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  example about surface integrals. Of course, as a hack, nobody knows who was responsible, but it was executed perfectly and was a great way to end the last ... chips into a pan of bars that probably had a higher energy density than

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up the stairs and a flurry of multilingual exclamations: pon tu pie aquí

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  verify that you will receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  transition from high school to college can be a tricky one, but you were always there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... someone new. Having taken sophomore standing****, I’m technically not a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  's Media Fabrics group. "I am a media junkie," Glorianna announced in her own ... personalize and share; and advancing media as a process of discovery ... was a golden era when faculty "didn't have to answer to anybody." She

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  's science, suggestions for further reading, and other resources. A detailed

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  were curious, ozonolysis is actually a lot more straightforward than the Wikipedia article would let on. Basically, you take a double bond and some ... 's much more going on than that, of course - including a lot of oxygens

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  My weekend It's been a somewhat busy two not-school days. Yesterday I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006