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  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  A few months ago the Making Caring Common Project at the Harvard ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... college – this is especially true at MIT – engaging and collaborating with

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fight Fire With Fire How is MIT so hard?

  

  guess that at your high school–just as in many high schools–the days you ... up with what is taught in class (at least, it should). 4. Tests. The ... at different levels. I especially never understood why public school

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the ... am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot ... ’m a constituent living in Cambridge. I’m a senior at MIT majoring in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  semester Having musically-inclined friends (and a relative) at MIT Having ... hardworking MIT college student, I look at a violinist and wonder if he or she ... at the door whipped out an iPhone and let me through even though I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  I love everything about Splash. I love waking up at 8am on a ... that they can give me whatever questions remain at the end of class - I ... fill an awkwardly-shaped classroom, but even the ones at the back sit up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  actually a pretty traumatizing experience. A few weeks ago, I realized at Activities Midway - (by the way, check out Dancetroupe's performance at the ... works for me - I successfully merged into a band of '14s at a party and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other CPW CPW guest entry by Sam Range '13

  

  disciples to curse the physical laws restricting them to a single location at ... -appointed navigator, Maria '13, we located a frat house and knocked at its door. As it ... ride around Boston, we talked about his experiences at MIT, focusing on

  • by Bryan
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  * Little did they know that by mentioning MIT to me at that early age they ... marginal at best) has now been cut in half). Oh those little things we say ... your life at all. But, high school, now we're talking big time. High

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  with Edward, another ‘12 from a town near by mine. We met up at the ... a sidewalk cafe, looking at the building across the road. Two people ... train finally arrived at South Station at around 3:18 PM and from there we

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Though the Odds A survival story.

  

  It's official: my first semester at MIT is over. After finishing four ... far as I can tell, not much has changed. And yet, at the same time ... semester at MIT. In retrospect, I realize that - in spite of reading the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Answered Questions, answers, and Sam's face. This is the real MIT.

  

  have quite a following at MIT. But, if it's simply an OS preference ... Books - we took a moment while on the road to marvel at the realization that ... substitute that's often even better than the original - especially at MIT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  IAP? No.. YOU’RE AP Possibly the worst title EVER. (Also, answers to your questions, but under the worst title…

  

  classes at other campuses can cost several hundreds of dollars and take much ... . Yesterday I saw Monet's water lilies up close at the Museum of Fine Arts in ... at California Pizza Kitchen with Trevor, Aditi, and Christina during

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  about the MIT workload. I'm sure I could get it done, but would it be at ... 's opinions on the types of people at MIT - I know there are a lot of different ... concerns, at least as I saw them back in the spring of 1996: Will I have a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  PhD student at Stanford. My main interest is extremal combinatorics ... majors, currently a master's student at the University of Cambridge ... local sports teams. Misheel O. '25: I'm a junior at MIT studying math

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  the internet everyday, so it hasn’t been that long at all. At most three ... Noo’no, and I know at least enough Amharic to maybe find my way home if ... year, at the start of my admissions blogging in the spring and throughout

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Class of 2012 Profiles of MIT's new freshmen.

  

  university. Ceniceros, 18, a senior at San Luis High School, was recently ... Institute of Technology. She said she arrived at high school with a passion ... granted a full-ride scholarship at Arizona State University, Ceniceros had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  at several schools in January and February. The process was [annotation ... stands at an easel and holds a palette of oil paints and wears a beret. In ... *~*~*discover*~*~* something). While standing at a lab bench all day is not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  I've learned (you can even hear Petey SM'13 saying "woo!" at 0 ... positioning was most effective when directed at the plume of hot gases above the flame, enhancing convective heat transfer, rather than aimed directly at

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  a house tour of mit sororities! meet aphi, axo, and theta

  

  , sorority life is a thriving community here at MIT, with about ⅓ of ... us spend so much time hanging out at our respective sorority houses, I ... We’re going to start our tour at Alpha Phi, which has been my own

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  . Look. I could only do so much at 2am when I had to wake up at 6am to ... capsule at this point in my post-yet-kind-of-not-post-MIT journey. Also, as ... 't actually hang out at all when we were students. This is a very special

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025