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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  potency of “interestingly” on sentences that are actually interesting, like ... barriers, on a scale where Level 1 includes talking to Intro to Linguistics ... ” without offending anyone? I'm writing this on the Internet, so the answer is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  interested in working on an floating sculpture by Marta Pan for an exhibition ... greet. I met with Jane in her studio and immediately signed on for the project.  For the next 6 months, we worked tirelessly on the project

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I ... things into it, my mother tutting loudly as I insisted on moving my things ... moving apparatus of Next House. Jen sat down on a [annotation note

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  eyelids. 2.5 hours later, while on a plane streaming through this clear ... MIT A cappella performances on YouTube while sitting on Catherine '12's ... to support my thesis of inherent DDR-incompetence by jumping on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  roles and been active on campus. Last week, I sat down with Andrea and got ... on campus, so I really appreciate you finding time to fit me into your ... ! MITES Summer 2004: Students coming out of dinner at Vinny T’s on Boylston

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview It's only going to be as fun as you want it to be.

  

  on your mind right now, so I kinda wanna address this issue. First off ... these two excellent blogs on the subject of interviews. I read both of ... that you have heard from the admission folks, I'll give you my spin on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  (Check out what I did last summer!) I'm staying on-campus again ... general idea is that I'm working on a program that can navigate several ... , students work on problem sets or procrastinate on them. I've been mostly

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  I chose to stay on-campus this summer because I knew that if I went ... run on new hardware. TRANSFORM is this beast: https ... 't 100% know what's going on with the class material sometimes, going

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus ... candidate or party, it allows us to take public positions on policies that ... administration earlier this year on behalf of our international students, defended

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  On Latin American Things Hablas español? Do you want to?

  

  blog and come on - it's not like I'd be able to focus with the sky so ... about on the Friday before spring break is homework. Instead, I'm going ... discussion off the blogs though, or at least my blog, for now, and focus on the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... on in each case? Quite often it is the case that the student with ... statistics are bolstered by our strong emphasis on understanding context

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  I wanted to offer a few more comments on the interview. While we have a diverse group of ECs (just like the MIT student body) and they may have somewhat different styles of how the conversations will go, the main

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I had a funny realization. I found myself setting something on fire 3 different times in the same week—twice for classes, once for a club—and each ... : giving a TED talk, speaking on a podcast, even collaborating across borders

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  campus. I found it at a bookshop I stopped by on my way home from a doctor ... set on a really amazing day in September, at Strand, one of my favorite ... with it. I found the postcard itself in a box on the second floor of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  - a hack showed up on Thursday! It's an upside down lounge installed on

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  , daily or on special occasions. Every dorm suite sports a full-size kitchen ... and the other of which has a hefty supply of MIT students stocking up on ... imaginary plane. I was fortunate enough to accompany her on one of her grocery

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  “hands-on”. Before I got here I would've listed, off the top of my head ... would involve him. It went a little like this: We were kneeling on the ... Daniel, who occupied the seat next to me and who’d already decided on his

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  "undergraduate application materials" on the envelope. You do not need to be a ... "undergraduate application materials" on the envelope. You do not need to be an art ... recommendation. This in general would not need to be on an MIT recommendation form

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  to put on a human mask every few hours, but I’d grow out of it. There ... on the road. I was not. I’m still not. I failed the road exam three ... each successive fail. I could do calculus; I could rattle on all day

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021