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  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  reduce the need for organ transplants by understanding the etiology of ... this is the place for you. I think in some respects you have to be a car

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This one goes out to the parent Fire! (she's comin' down on her own, now)

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The city of Portland, Oregon was named for Portland, Maine. What a coincidence that Matt's entry on thanking parents came on ... like! I've been on grad school visits for the past 3 weeks, which are

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  semester I applied for and joined ESG (Experimental Study Group), a freshman ... day; my TAs bring ice cream and order us Thai food for late-night study

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making house calls "Uhh, someone from MIT wants to talk to you."

  

  you choose to take. For example, to fulfill one of your physics ... , there is something for everyone. Don’t worry about not finding friends

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  stereotypes have at least a grain of something resembling truth to them -- for ... that made them strong candidates for admission. Well, you don't have to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  yesterday's entry for, well, more pictures. I, I can remember standing by ... Engineering Museum, which is a strange destination for like 7 MIT students who

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.

  

  buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen ... (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  intensive cultural experience for at least 8 hours a day, and I think I ... stuff at a restaurant or ask for a hotel room. Because, honestly, why do I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…

  

  Technology Officer (CTO) of Goldman Sachs and MIT Class of 1977. For those of ... of a PhD student for two years, working with clathrate hydrates

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  's another story for another day. There were also a lot of pieces by the ... begun to transform into a machine. Food for thought? What else -- there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Another week? It's all in the name of pass/no record.

  

  lunch, go home, study for standardized tests, IM friends, get into college ... . Yes, these are the musings of someone who was out of school for a while

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Bryan Nance Name: Bryan Nance; Job title: Director of Minority Recruitment; Hometown: Queens, NY

  

  college/MIT: (Time for me to be serious) I have 3 points: 1. Put a lot of ... scores. We are looking for well-rounded students. Since we focus on so much

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  turned out to have everything I was looking for: in addition to the awesome ... applied for work in the field of education. After considering a number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first ... 's a heavy-handed metaphor for how you don't notice time passing until it ... this online community developed. If it weren't for them, you wouldn't be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  they’d turned off the air conditioning for some reason and we were wiping ... ultimate love languages. And for some reason, almost everyone I know who ... the emotions they spur in me. For this post, I thought I’d put my liked

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  lungs lately. Circumstances are ripe for a brash inbox reorganization- as ... that MIT is about 50% Asian. 11:30: I met Mace (short for MeiHsin), the ... the tour guide for an eternal 70 minutes through the most nauseatingly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  ; [warning: contains spoilers for the cartoon show adventure time] lessons ... to be too childish for my tastes, as the show is riddled with moments ... judgments, and how the show seemed to tut at me for it, showing me that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  ] sheet - unvoiced [ʒ] azure - voiced Palatal: This one is hard for me to ... three are nasal: for these sounds, there is an obstruction that we make ... . For example: [t] is an unvoiced alveolar stop [z] is a voiced

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  fun for what it was, though an unexpected hurdle came up. Caitlin

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 17, 2025