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• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  “right” for the field. And I would have overlooked the Institute that was right for me—the one where I am unafraid to experiment, where I can always find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  are your plans for next year???" and I internally scream "I DON'T KNOW ... up for the Fall Career Fair and are interviewing with companies ... sweater and got my photo taken for the yearbook. For my senior quote, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  . General Advice for Grocery Shopping Bring an empty backpack. You should ... groceries, here is a reference for food prices. In general, to see how expensive an unfamiliar grocery store is, check how much they charge for a few

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704 Spanish IV, my HASS class for this semester. I’ve been attempting to learn Spanish since the 8th grade, having taken a Spanish class every year for the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  probably best saved for another blog post; the important thing is that I did ... school already. Of course, they eventually did, and for a long time, I was ... later, words poured out onto the screen. My brain exploded for a moment

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  for today’s students was critically important to me since I would be ... were just getting started on our campus in those days. Now the option for women to belong and live for a time in a value-based organization where

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  but first we are getting ready for Campus Preview Weekend (CPW) which ... with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me ... their own thing” and know that it's good for you to do the same. It’s the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breadsticks and Business Just remember, undergrads are like puppies in the eyes of an alum

  

  restaurant hangout for the students at Lima High School. I am here to say that ... where advising groups often meet for dinner; it’s where we’ve had a few ... order pizza, but then ask for a bag of those famous pizza dough rolls to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 24, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  for me: speak up! At least half of the comments said something like ... before the spring semester started, I heard there was an opening for a ... as the Teaching Assistant (“TA,” in MIT-ese) for the 1:00-3:00 section

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  year has started off in the same way: "I'm so sorry for having ... at least five or six MIT '12s currently in the running for Rhodes ... and move to the front, to make it easier for him to come to you and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  ) because I was volunteering for two different programs. Sunday morning was Delve, an AP preparation course run by ESP for area high schoolers. More ... Prize for Girls. Founded two years ago in NYC, the Math Prize moved to MIT

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  [the Koch Cancer center] takes people on for UROPs?" 4) "If you had to ... Cormick, Simmons, Baker) 2) The option of signing up for a dining plan (everywhere ... -specific. If, for example, you lived at Simmons, you could eat breakfast there

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  communications industry. We've been proud, and grateful, to call it our home for ... for something really awesome. I think we've done it. And I hope you ... Admissions Wiki.     The Wiki is the new home for all of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... made sticky notes,” said Marie, who added that the premise for the ... (for example, “end call” or “go to another page”) for every point in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  haven't been reading your folders, working on plans for the big event. At ... got all the way to California. Every day for weeks I was the one who checked the mail at my house, not because of a fondness for the mailman, but

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  ’ll table it for another post. Moral of the story: chromatin is a lot like me ... well – see for yourself: Now, as awesome as that was (he used to read ... -up routine at an open-mic night? Who knows. For those of you who were admitted

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  Catch reruns for 14 hours a day. You could easily become a Facebook addict and surf your friends' profile pages for 14 hours each day. (I know, I ... taking cool photos to attempting to break the world record for mattress

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  help design my class ring, and have a UROP, and blog for admissions ... Conner, work a few hours at night calling alumni and asking for money, and ... /inauguration day for 4 or 5 nights in a row, and one of my roommates' birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Obama to speak on clean energy, visit MIT energy labs today You can watch the speech live... or wait for the bloggers' account of it!

  

  luminescent solar concentrators which collects sunlight for solar cells. These ... fewer solar cells for the same energy output. They can be mounted on ... Offshore Renewable Energy Systems (ORES) for which excess power from a wind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  -preservation instincts began sirening for me to pick up the scissors and start cutting ... Vibrations (8.03): Required for major, will keep. -Special Relativity (8 ... grapes for dinner. Twice. -20th Century Composition Techniques: I stumbled

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009