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  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  Hi guys! My name is Quynh, and like Connie, I’m a crusty old senior about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... —I’m majoring in biology with a minor in chemistry and have spent the last four

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  We have extended the Regular Action deadline to January 6th, 2021 in order to give our applicants (and our staff) some extra time around the holidays

  

  ! Do you provide a fee waiver for the CSS Profile? MIT is not able to ... I am popping my head out of committee for a moment to [annotation ... applying to us for Regular Action, but we presume you're getting a lot of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only ... be the year when things 'get real', at least as a Mech-e, and I found ... like rambling on about what I've learned (nor do I think I've narrowed it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  . Tuesday: I did have a lot of white space on Tuesday, but I also went to the ... dinner: achieved. Pepper Sky is SO GOOD) Wednesday: Wednesday was a LOT. Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  too pour a few cups of flour into big bowl add one cup hot water ... make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with a wet towel and let sit for a few hours FILLING (VEGETARIAN

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... participate. Camping equipment is available, if needed. For those that do not want to camp Saturday night, a van may be able to return to MIT by 7 PM

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  I have a billion things to say about this semester already and I ... ?                                               Before I go back to this summer, my life thus far has been a conglomoration ... without setting off any alarms (a sure sign of sophomore-ish maturity, or so

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Perfect Match? because the right CPW host can make a huge difference...

  

  While many of our students have known for a quite some time that MIT ... have thought that another institution was a better (gasp) match for them ... programs have had their own App developed by a participant, just to keep

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... do is not ask at all and just have a vague worry hanging over your head ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  because they're interested in doing community service. And indeed, this is a ... to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  program." Why would MIT do this? And isn't there a big risk? The curator of ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  a blog ASAP. :-) So what did you do on your vacation, anyway? I ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  application has been posted. You can request a paper copy, download a PDF, or ... for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... do you care so much? You’re not American anyway. But I am black. Racism

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... basic decision as Sam: whether to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead. Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more ... do everything all the time. I'm not convinced that it's a strictly bad ... then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  do for a living in order to free yourself and make more fulfilling ... completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing ... to do) we would win. Realizing all of this was a very happy day for us ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008