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  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  is made out to be, depending of course on your time management skills ... 7:48 AM The view from my window If you crane your neck, you can see the distant glint of the Charles. If you don't feel like craning your

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  baby and people are always saying things to it like, “you have your mother’s nose!” or “you must have gotten your fantasy-world-ruled-by ... -a-bunch-of-young-siblings from your father!” The Magician King by Lev Grossman In my favorite

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it could have been. I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who did the right thing. I was incredibly impressed with your integrity

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  during office hours or after class. So it is possible to get to know your ... way to get to know professors who teach your classes. 6. Jon said, haha ... State on my full scholarship, she was planning to get a pool in the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  reviewing my classes this semester but unthoroughly

  

  constraints (needing to get all my units in so I can graduate)!! Some stats ... This semester, due to a [annotation note="decided I could finish both ... they covered material that I had little to no exposure to beforehand. 11

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  things you do at MIT. To be honest, I really enjoy them! I get weird looks ... , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... that it's impossible to study without getting distracted. When you've got

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  promised to get back to her on that. Class plans are mostly useful for ... course, to sit down with the course catalogue, your intended degree ... requirements for your major(s), then check in the catalogue to see when the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  , and I encourage you to Google and PubMed for updates (and please post ... According to the 2007 study by the National Autonomous University of Mexico ... rates by 2010: the rate of biodiversity loss has not slowed, according to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  account. I should probably get around to getting rid of that account someday ... were taking a risk by skydiving." Sam stops sobbing long enough to ask ... a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  to Kresge to get a peek inside. However, it seemed as though many other ... just a few.) But instead of just throwing them at you, I’m going to show ... movie you’ve ever seen all congregated in one location. Google, Apple

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... contains many secrets 2) A large noteboard 3) Daniel's index finger, which

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day with AISES + NASA

  

  public, are also invited to a celebration of the day hosted by the MIT ... to you and yours! ... today, Institute Community and Equity Officer John Dozier sent an email to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 11, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  both of his passions. Jugal found his UROP by searching the websites of ... Education (INIE) program. Getting to work in MIT-NRL is an amazing opportunity ... . His advice is to "take your passion and follow through with it to the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  patients (or whatever you’re studying) to a “treatment” group and some to a ... not enough space to go into them here']give them your intervention (in ... cannot do this so easily. Randomly assigning some people to get

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  blogger who wrote it, or the general information pages accessible by the ... features of the Admissions website as a whole, because it shows how the blogs ... about MIT - whether you're exploring MIT's Majors & Minors or The

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.

  

  't know how to get people to listen to them," she said. Perlman believed in ... thing you can think about in your mind without worrying about getting ... 1980. There, engineers had been trying to get computers to exchange

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  recent, unedited, contrasting samples of your best work for evaluation by ... bring to this process and your talents can be considered with your other talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  importantly, though, when you land on these squares, you also get to pick up a ... he agreed to do it. I stand by the truth of that claim. He might not 😆 ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  I gained by moving to MIT is so much richer in a lot of ways than the ... adventures, stresses, and ideas to enter your life, while not letting go of the ... As I’m starting to write this, I’m sitting on an airplane, my rear

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  within a week received a whole bunch of homework. Book your travel Get to know your group Schedule meetings with your senators and ... solar astrophysicist at Harvard. The AAS has a whole website on how to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014