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  Take Off Gate '21 Calling for Departure

  

  behind my home in Texas to make a new one here. In these past fourteen days ... conversations and “light reading”), I can’t help but draw a parallel. The past two weeks have been much like a take-off. The packing. The uneventful sitting

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  for the past four months. Winter in PA is grey trees against a warm ... night falls the pink streetlights light the forest from behind, the snow a ... fireworks shows, a dozen at a time if you park under a mountain, each one

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Startups in Dorm Room Fund a venture fund run by students for students

  

  community. Today I'd like to take a look at Dorm Room Fund, a venture fund ... . What's interesting is that a lot of DRF backed startups in the Boston ... a lot of grad student startups, as DRF isn't only limited to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  of 1929 when senior class president C. Brigham Allen brought together a member from each of the Classes of 1930, 1931, and 1932 to design a ring ... , patient, strong, hardworking, and, like all who graduate from Tech, has a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  that, in the footer to each email, we include a line explaining to the ... admissions cycle: a list for admitted students, who receive updates specific to their admitted status, and a list for applicants, who receive updates

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden

  

  data as being predictive or revealing: What's happening here is a ... process. When we say that the admit rate for students with a 750-800 was 15%, it does not mean that the chances of a given applicant who scores

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn ... graduate institution. Of course, I didn't have a graduate institution yet

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan ... (D-NY) suggested using the 14th Amendment to the Constitution as a ... US politics? Professor Pauline Maier, a history professor at MIT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  Here's the skinny on my summer. I got a fellowship from the MIT Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big ... with a committee of community members, acquired a grant from the county

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  dramatic monologue. "Wait...beat! That's it!" I called my friend David - a ... told him to bring his guitar. My plan? To defeat the zombies with a logic ... enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  I Can Save You Possibly.

  

  barefoot and promptly tripped over a friend's size 12 shoe. I ended up ... ), a white polo, and waterproof boots and help those in pain, instead of being in pain myself. Undoubtedly a nice change, I must say. Having just

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  TLM The Land of MIT. It's a planet.

  

  traveling to different planets, perhaps living in a ship for years until reaching a completely different planet and moving there. Until about two and a half months ago, I thought that was just one of my many fleeting

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  come to CPW, in case a weekend of free food, free shirts, and hanging out ... itself. "Rules: Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note ... school procrastination. Yes, I am a terrible person. 1. I am not the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  ...cuddling with his laptop. I'm not kidding. Okay, now I'm going to make a huge jump to what might appear to be a TOTALLY different subject, but it'll all come together in the end. I promise. I have a gift for this kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Surviving CPW Tips and tricks on making the most of your CPW experience

  

  For the record, during my CPW, it rained for a little and despite that, I still had a blast; so, regardless of weather, get ready for the most ... ;-) Here are a few tips to making the best of your CPW experience. Rule #0

  • by Bryan
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  , I have a confession to make to my fellow VMars fans... ...Ready? I think I have a fictional character crush on Piz. I can’t help it, he ... hear from Marilee only a few times a year, usually around crucial dates

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-related whatsits Just some things you might want to know before you arrive tomorrow!

  

  "starter child" (pre-frosh) for CPW? Is it a personality match or just random ... matched up based on answers to a questionnaire that you completed and we ... many FSILGs as strike your fancy. Find a community! There's definitely

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  - but there are still a lot of you and only a few of us. Can my parents ... I haven't gotten a tube yet, should I assume that I have been rejected ... . Committee starts in February. If I was missing a teacher rec would I

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  I have so much work to do tonight, but I just fell off a treadmill in the Z-Center (no, really) and I'm so disheartened by this that a ... environs. I'm fine, Sam's Mom. But I'm obviously not a natural runner, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005