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• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  ways that help us to contextualize their achievements.  We have struggled ... assess and evaluate what we determine to be exceptional,  and it is ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives) Week, this week is worthy enough to be ... networking and discreetly stealing free pens. Not to be outdone, students who

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based ... chip. My project was to find out how to remove those wires from the chip and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  personal apology to the BC front desk (and also mother nature) for being ... bunch of desk space as well. To be honest, I don’t really use it that much ... September, I quickly realized that I’d need to level up my blanket game. This

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  . To be honest, the food tastes a little too "healthy" for me, but plenty ... trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... Last Thursday, I went to “Food Truck 101: The Conference”, a 4-hour

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain that the "Sell By" date should be taken in a literal sense - "the milk should be SOLD by that date. We already bought the milk before that day

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  My freshman year is almost over honest thoughts on it

  

  try my best to be forgiving towards myself, but I still slip once in a ... 't pretty or cute enough to be one or the other. But the fact that I ... ="Introduction to Solid State Chemistry. Satisfies the Chemistry GIR."]3

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  students on the show was admitted to MIT early action, so maybe she'll be ... WGBH. Afterwards, you will be able to watch episodes on the website: http://www.pbskidsgo.org/designsquad. ... As a kid, I always secretly dreamed of being on a TV show. Had there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Hospital Trips and Dance Parties MIT campus is where it's at over the summer.

  

  that this was in fact the case - and we limped on our merry way back to ... time at dinner that evening - and after we nudged our way to the center ... : I admit that I was surprised at the turnout: most people seemed to be

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  record number of applications can be explained by MIT’s mission and ... choice. “We want the process to be as helpful and accommodating to ... admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  Well now, this is a good way to start a blog entry. Megan '08, nine people I don't really know and I went down to Carson Beach today and then ... '08 had seen March of the Penguins, so she knew that the best way to get

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  : every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are excited that we are able to admit 28 students this year. Today, at 5PM Eastern ... “closed” and will not be admitting any additional students for the Class of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 15, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  concept album, which turned out to be because the titular band is the ... so I'd be able to get it! My team's analysis ended up being seven pages ... project topic to be about the Beatles' relationship with psychedelia. In my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Me: A Video Tour of Campus in which you get to hang out with my friends and walk around MIT through…

  

  allergies and how to pronounce the word "Stata". If that sounds like a fun way ... of MIT's campus for people who want to know what it's like to be at MIT ... they were at the time. It's not meant to be a professional tour of MIT

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 23, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  started to get healthier, I finally accepted that there was no feasible way ... gastroenteritis outbreaks to eating healthy.  I really enjoy being a Medlink - and I ... not been nearly as involved in pistol as I would have liked to be this

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  having breakfast. As usual, I missed the Boston Daytime shuttle to campus. Like any other morning, it looked like I was walking to campus. But as I stepped out onto the front steps, I felt compelled to pull out my phone and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home is Where the Heart is In which I speak only in trite cliches.

  

  peers. Everyone wants to live somewhere they can be happy and comfortable ... living situation--I was able to move part of the way through the second ... . Your future going to be just as awesome as that of Futurama. *Source

  • by Tom R. '14
  • December 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  applying to MIT or admitted students who are still unsure/scared, I may be ... 't had a whole lot of time to be nostalgic, mushy, and all that irritating ... 's everybody going to be doing for the next few months? Here's a small sampling

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  i could being with him. it wasn't enough. i wasn't ready to say ... goodbye to them. maybe i never will be. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8 ... . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester Two Hosed, feeling, writing, love and hatred and whatever else

  

  can't be bothered to do anything but summarize them. I don't think I ... , and if I wanted to write, I would. If I wanted to spend an hour commuting to a new location to write, I would. I had time to do it. I like to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • February 26, 2022