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  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  !) and went with my mom and dad to the gathering on the Saturday of my ... Last year, the admitted students of the Class of 2017 got invitations ... hosted by the MIT Club of Northern New Jersey. As the only accepted MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  webcasting the event live on campus too. The subtitle of this entry was also ... campus on Friday doesn't mean he'd have a better chance of being admitted ... You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s the middle of November. Do YOU know where your Early Action application components are? How to tell if they are missing, and what to do about it

  

  up on your MyMIT tracking page. If you think one of your missing ... (relatively small but still nonzero number of) Early Action applicants for whom we are still missing a component of their application. Typically we

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  -preserved cow's heart into AP Bio, I was just barely on the verge of consciousness ... DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  a recipe for making yourself extremely hosed or, what i'm doing this fall

  

  'll retain that knowledge as the semester goes on. 12 units of 18 ... one class on p/nr"]put it on P/NR[/annotation]instead of dropping it ... , that I should probably go work on my own short story. 12 units of 21W

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 2, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  Kresge Auditorium almost rolling in laughter, listening to arguably some of ... steps!” Though not inherently obvious, they are words of wisdom. They are also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... opportunity to do so. Greg is one of the most talented makers I've ever met. He

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  Escargots." One of the things I promised myself is that this year I would try ... a whooping $6 in 26-100 were: Fantastic Planet Courtest of ... word play on the French language word hommes, meaning men), have been

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  , Baker House, like most of the dorms and halls on campus, was very involved ... Club of Boston also fields an IM Hockey team. So I have participated on ... comeback against the Yankees, my mom scanned in an old "baseball card" of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Some Art About Other Art it's super meta

  

  There is currently a painting staring at me.  It’s perched on top of ... closing in on me. Internally, my creation is often propelled by a feeling of ... completion. Incredibly, despite all of this - my internal reliance on making

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  's just a bunch of stories told, handed on. That's not what this means. What ... 're supposed to focus on what it is that we're wanting to move towards instead of ... wanted to spend money on; i think my pursuit of wealth was more about fear

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  post.  On the week of Pi Day, my friend and I both wondered how a ... even with it, the end of the first semester here felt like walking on a ... . If you think of all this before you arrive on campus, hopefully the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Openness This one's serious, no silly link. Read it.

  

  to visit MIT, danger signs you see posted on doors, LEGOs, and tons of ... . Read dozens, maybe hundreds of blog entries on this site, from different ... affecting the lives of potential applicants. If you are going to comment on

  • by Snively '11
  • October 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  walking around -- probably some of the most brilliant people on the face of ... classes on my fall schedule right now, a HASS (21M.223, Folk Music of the ... right now, so you could just go to one of them on the first day of class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slowing Climate Change, One Steak at a Time final project for 24.03 (The Ethics and Politics of Food)

  

  increased by 1.1°C (2.0°F), and 16 of the 17 warmest years on record occurred ... Ethics and Politics of Food. The assignment was to engage with the topics of the class further by "introducing a moral question concerning food

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 11, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Self Help I

  

  I raised my young self on a steady diet of self-help literature. I ... . My anxiety, which had centered on feelings of fear and uncertainty ... of a Skinned Knee--and marked the pages I thought my parents should

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  and the co-author of the best textbook on General Relativity ever ... Robert Frost never thought of that one.) On the other hand, I'm slightly ... weekend at pika, after waking up on Thanksgiving day to a house full of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Years Through A Laptop Case a walk down memory lane

  

  got to know at MIT and they've been nothing less of a second family on ... this sticker from some booth on campus my freshman year. One of two ... only sticker on here that I snagged from one of the MIT career fairs. And

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 10, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  wingspans as a sort of sail, and angling the feathers on each wing's end to ... swim class)  The idea of “No Elbows on the Table!” stems from when ... [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024