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• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  rejection. So for those of you who feel like a future at MIT is the only ... find these things at MIT, it's also easy to forget to build them. And it's equally possible to find these things, and happiness, at other universities

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Sunday night is the deadline for Early Action (EA) Here are some things we want you to know

  

  of all materials at this busy time. About Standardized Testing ... have any effect at all on your QuestBridge application. And Everything ... . Give out candy to cute trick-or-treaters at your front door. Watch a

  • by Kris Guay
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  have class. But mandatory attendance… 11:00 → I’m at Harvard. The light ... fascinating project. 2:00 → Lunch at Clover. Food is good. Clover French fries ... confusion. I shudder at this phrase. It’s odd to say it, odd to be here. 4

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introducing Amino: Desktop Bioengineering for Everyone an MIT alumna makes a counter-top sized biolab that enables anyone to grow living cells…

  

  at MIT is my friend Julie Legault. Julie is an artist, designer, and ... , and taught at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design. In June, Julie finished her masters degree at the Media Lab in the Playful Systems

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  anything, for that matter, coming at me at a 45-plus-degree angle.   <-- Me spotted at the local Patagonia store  <-- So I bought real

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding a Second Home love is where you least expect it

  

  East Campus at all in my short time so far, and had no reason to. The ... abstract art and doors with cats painted on them (no actual cats sadly). At ... comprehend. It might seem tough at first, following the heart rather than the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Magic Cards and a Farmers’ Market And frozen advice for the 2019s

  

  ’m desperate to avoid blogging, and I blog whenever I should be studying. At the ... at noon on Friday to realize that I slept through my midterm exam in 18 ... interaction (and maybe better food). And liquid nitrogen ice cream is chilled at

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard ... described them to a friend "like stacked rocks." They are delicate and hard at ... -punk adventure I read aloud to my six-year-old sister at bedtime. 8. Oak: The

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... showing him around our dorm. Back at Senior House, he made an interesting ... . Apparently, when she attended college at a certain Ivy institution in New York

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Tale of a Frosh once upon a cold November

  

  as a team.” Sometimes, the Frosh despairs at the overwhelming routine ... the river at sunrise. At 6:55 am, six minutes later than predicted, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  milk, and at the moment it strikes the surface of the table, flash the ... arrive at Two.js. Basically, Two.js is an API that allows you to use ... summer working at an oceanographic institution (WHOI, which MIT actually

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  FAQs that QuestBridge applicants often have at this stage: Q: I am ... financial documents? A: Fax them to the MIT Financial Aid Office at 617 ... you have questions about your financial documents, email sfs at mit dot

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  for the most part electrical), the brickwork at the bus stop has a ... the time. I will say: I'm excited for sophomore year at MIT. I ... new room on 2E at East Campus, to be closer to my friends in the Toons

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  current students about what life at MIT is like nowadays. For example ... of the coffeehouse at one point, but his successor wanted to rename the ... of Car Talk (an NPR radio show about cars) spoke at their commencement

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 ... he is very strong, so I pointed at him and announced that “he’s very ... . Finally, the window locked. I waved silently at Lucas and our two new

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  hours of sleep and crawled out of bed this morning at 6 AM. One group ... .   At the competition site, every team was given a taped-off area about 7 ... toolboxes, the teams around us sneaked awkward glances at our area and our

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes ... 's mathematically proven that learning at 200 word vocabulary is 100 times better than ... planning for the next day at night, every night. I needed to recuperate for a

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  by IDEO for the winter, with the stipulation that I would be working at ... contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... month in Chicago at IDEO, because hopefully you can practice these skills

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  applicant list. In other words, it replaced one line, in small print, at the ... better. I know that the admissions officers at this school care. I know how complex a communications project at this scale can be. It's so easy to make

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

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  Sunday, staying at a MITOC cabin overnight, and then ice climbing in New ... (usually around $5).   (3) UPOP MIT is good at teaching technical ... presentations at the end of the week. UPOP isn't perfect - sometimes the sheer

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014