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  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  at the MIT Club of Greece event. Tuesday The MIT Club of New ... Okay, I admit it! I decided to come to MIT without the benefit of an ... , was a meeting held in the home of an alumni volunteer named George

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  cultures pieces of tissue in situ. Bryan has been working on two aspects of ... a UROP at MIT: "There's a lot of research going on here, and sometimes ... average Research & Development cost of one drug is around $850 million

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Homestuck Day! and advice about college decisions / cpw

  

  % acceptable to choose based on whether people recognize your Homestuck jacket ... 's admitted student weekend, and Homestuck Day, 4/13. Check out the new ... ="attachment_88335" align="aligncenter" width="600"] source: @A4MP3R10S on Twitter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  , and of course I have APO meetings on Wednesday nights... but that's just ... enhancing acoustic quality. 4.502: Design Scripting. A new class, this one is ... regardless of your major..) 4.292: Special Problems in Architecture Studies

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  transition from being at one of the greatest intellectual hubs on the planet to ... want on campus at any time, and i did not realize how unusual this was until recently all of which begs the question: how do people who graduate

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  postdoc has other projects of his own that he works on with his lab tech ... Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... few months ago, I wrote a summary of my last project; a paper describing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... Calligraphy". It's an exhibit of New England insects called "The Art of Survival ... red pen on the back of my notebook. Apparently John McPhee has won a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  how i got my book deal *flailing intensifies*

  

  outside of school on the manuscript. My mind wandered in class—I was ... the Deal of the Week so my face was on the front page of Publishers ... beginning of my sophomore year at MIT, I signed with my wonderful agent, Penny

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  discover that nearly half of the entire hall have radios. On top of the ... number of high-tech radios casually sitting on another old desk, old ... side of the globe!' or 'i talked to my next door neighbor on radio', and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Associate Advising and the MedLinks Program I'm sick of unpacking, so here's a blog post

  

  with me, and the new freshman bloggers. I'm also on the Associate ... collection of these for a while, and will start leaking them out) MIT Student ... , probability, and diff eq. - We're in the midst of freshman orientation, so now

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/idea3.mp3"][/audio] With each new piece, the vision of what the ... Day video? Honestly, it all started with a random DM on Instagram. Back ... across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Sadoway’s students working on a new process to make steel with oxygen ... hole); CSAIL presentations on developing new microprocessors and robots ... schedule of events was 87 pages long! The aesthetics of MIT do grow on you

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  of all possible worlds. Loren spends a lot of time in the New Media Center working on a variety of multimedia projects. And, since last November, he's spent a lot of time in the NMC working specifically on this

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Blizzard Barbecuing A few feet of snow never hurt anyone

  

  Yesterday Spanish House celebrated Boston's record breaking snow fall with the WTF(Winter Time Fun) Barbecue! Who says a few feet of snow signals the end of outdoor activites. Photo Credit to Hollie O. '15

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls.In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, but with the advent of You

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) Day Burton 1 celebrates Pi Day as we generally like to celebrate all unofficial nerd holidays…

  

  having dinner in New York with Michel Gondry on MIT money - BUT this should ... (CONGRATULATIONS, Class of 2012! I'm way excited to meet all of you ... swear). The point of this entry is that my friend Liz '11 and I recently

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Laundry Lists And other things. Okay, so just the list.

  

  it. -Painting my new room an awesome purple, because painting is ... :30 twice a week (for 24.900 - Intro to Linguistics - which is at 9:30 on Tuesdays and Thursdays) after a term of never having to get up before ten is

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 9, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  meals a day and undoing an entire month's worth of exercise. Bring it on ... Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... I've been watching a lot of chess. Watching, not playing. My eyes hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  on the interview. I replied: Think of it like any conversation with ... chances of getting in????? Depending on my mood, I may respond to this ... extracurricular things did you put on your application? I replied: The sorts of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013