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  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  you live, a visit to MIT can be expensive and a little time consuming ... . Normally visits only last for about a day so you will have to cram as much ... , right? Cramming a ton of stuff into a really short time period? I have

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  figured 18.01 would be a walk in the park, I took one look at the p-set and ... betting against it really.....kind of a lose lose...) so I sat down and started the pset at 9:30p.m. What follows, friends is what is known as a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  , Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only ... summer working with a really dedicated mentor and a great team of other top

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  activities for the parents other than a reception and some financial aid ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of ... interfacing with Current MIT Parents. Always a huge success every year. 8:30pm

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  . (Actually, I’d still get a full(ish) night of sleep every night even if I did ... getting really old. Or they could have said "becoming an adult" – as a ... months has had me missing the security of home a bit, though. (Let’s ignore

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lit Analytics How humanities classes can be analytically rigorous, courtesy of a Shakespeare scholar

  

  place in 2005), a parent asked me if/how MIT humanities classes were ... September 13, 2006 The works of William Shakespeare have a timeless quality, but it would be a mistake to imagine these "classics" have retained

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  formula for the surface area of a sphere (4 pi r squared) was not exact, and ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... a vegetarian for a month for no particular reason? Here's a picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  applications. As always, it was quite fascinating; I learned a lot, met some good people, and came away with a few new ideas. One of the most interesting ... 's good to apply to a variety of schools at varying levels of selectivity to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  family, and we had a lovely time. I made snickerdoodle cookies and ... .) After the giant food extravaganza (and after a somewhat violent game of ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About the MCATs All about the MCATs and what you need to take to prepare for it!

  

  Hello all! I've been a horrible blogger, please forgive, but I have amassed a boatload of excuses so feel free to complain and I'll send you one ... challenging, it was just a matter of learning the tricks and being consistent

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  general. A lot of you talk about getting into MIT as though it is your goal ... made, right? And it's a perfectly understandable attitude. Many of you have been brought up to think that getting into a good school is one of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  once a year they gather for a conference. This year's conference was in ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a ... , Executive Director of the Education Conservancy. Lloyd Thacker leads a panel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  , since I hadn't had to do a lot of the stuff on the test since 10th grade... the good part is that it's like riding a bike and you can pick it up ... around the city for a while. Wandering around Boston is one of my favorite

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  when I was here over the summer for [annotation note="Interphase is a two-year academic support program run by the Office of Minority Education with a seven ... while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  two years ago i watched the midnight gospel, a tv show where the dialogue for each episode is taken from a series of real-life podcast ... traditions are a way of transferring spiritual energy from the speaker to the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  As CPW comes to a close and I watch eager beaver high schoolers drag their far too clunky suitcases onto the airport shuttle, I feel a pang of ... a little over two semesters left in this school, I wonder what impact

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , aka a January term but ~quirky~). For me, my senior IAP was an ... . And both times, it was wonderful. Two (very long) years apart, after a ... semester. Made art: over the summer, my internship held a poster

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  -the-game was a series of 5 games played over 5 weeks. The first-place winners of ... :30PM ET!"]progress to a live game show[/annotation] to compete for $399 ... ,[/annotation] winning a modest but appreciated $15! In my opinion, winning required more

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  semester, there was not so much time for feelings. I carved out a few hours ... came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps ... , over, say, four months, then you have a lot of updates to do. And if you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  . But actually, to our surprise, having a “plan” and a “major” and a ... animation classes. BUT *excited inhale to prepare for a long run-on sentence ... want to cross-register and begin the process just a few days before

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017