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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Unless, of course, you've decided to do something with all that free time.

  

  I said I'd do it, no? Many of these websites won't have information ... some of you may want to look into, what with summer often involving large ... summer is still comprehensive enough for you to take what you will from it

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... ’m not proud of. To be honest, my solution in high school was just… not to ... also a tricky one. My first reaction to reading this part of the prompt

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to ... Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... September 14th, I will lead our “annual” field trip to central Massachusetts

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  these experiences with the overbearing hand of hindsight, to claim that ... of colleges, had I decided to attend those instead. Here's a secret ... -year-old, so of course that social perception mattered to me. From speaking to

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  while. i'm kind of emo about it, but have decided to take advantage of ... satisfied; only when i dedicate myself to this host of creative channels do i ... extensive compilation of tasks to feel like i'm giving myself direction; i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Barker Engineering Library Where sound goes to die.

  

  start to get angry. Be smart, take a picture of the tree when people aren ... It's a famous dome, and if you've never heard of it then do a google ... in here. Not a day goes by when I am not absorbed by a mass of tourists

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

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems ... Interphase? According to the OME's Website "Interphase is a rigorous seven ... Interphase together. We sat in groups of  two and learned in a style similar to

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  :43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... threat to America?" I mean, once you hear my question it's kind of a judge ... to have a unit of measurement in the metric system named after me. Now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  of us that I want to solve before we launch in September ... want these to be your ideas, not mine, but to give you the kind of thing ... straightline manner possible... If you want to be involved with any of this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Art? It's late, but not too late.

  

  essentially being forced to copy out every intermediate in every major metabolic ... uses his eye lasers to finally destroy it--and the top few floors of the ... I am done with finals and very excited about that; you may be able to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  10 things I learned in 10 projects a run-down of my making misadventures sophomore year

  

  via solder wire. Solder doesn’t take to every type of metal the same way ... ’t the best of matches; but ultimately I was able to get it to stick, and ... next time. I learned some basic things, like how to burn the ends of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales of a College Froshling Okay, so I'm not a frosh anymore. Meh, whatever.

  

  available to you (such as living group websites and the Guide to Residences in ... using an algorithm designed to maximize the number of people in their ... of desired roommates, likes and dislikes, et cetera - to put you in a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each ... 12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Out Sick aka, a subject line for too many emails

  

   terrible, opened my Google calendar, saw I had nothing I desperately needed to do ... some ways more than the actual act of being sick. I proceeded to text the ... 've been wanting to write about for the last month. But being "out of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blogging My Way to a Passionate Life On writing, during and after MIT.

  

  friends, new line of work. In the first few months of adjusting to fast ... voice. In the process of learning how to put together an effective piece ... enough time to think of things to write for CityLab as is. Of course, now

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  ". So there is an FPOP for entrepreneurship! I looked up their website to ... know pretty much every single one of the groups on that list! I have to ... hundreds of thousands of daily players. He even told us about how he used to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  pictures of neurons. 2. Starting to plan a really important party for next ... introduction to the blog to those of you just joining us. (I am NOT putting my ... stalker I have -- and apparently I have a few -- to effectively google me

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  good at theoretical plasma physics you have to know a lot of things that ... for the world?[annotation note="to be clear, plenty of people at MIT ... their home rivers to spawn the next generation of salmon. This is really

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  to the official rules page of the program website, “Any physical ... @mit challenges teams of 5 to 8 people to log the most number of minutes exercised ... ,000,000 minutes of getting-fit-@-MIT. Those are some big numbers. It’s easy to see

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010