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  Trip Report: IvyPlus some reflections from an admissions conference

  

  Plus 2011 conference at Yale University. IvyPlus is an every-couple-of ... process out there, but it is still useful to learn how other places do ... manages what is essentially a small army of a few hundred volunteers. These

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 13, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves ... is tuned to the right frequency, it can make the wine glass really sing ... . There's no denying that MIT is hard, and I'd be lying if I tried to hide

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  barbeque pork (or at least, that's what I think it is -- browsing google ... deal is, anyway. Bacon's just one of those foods that you're not allowed ... 't get things done. The way it works for me is that when there are more

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  One of my favorite of MIT's 500+ student groups is called the ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of ... is this video: Here's the article itself:      

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a ... music study. What you do is up to you. I should also note that if your ... and what not to eat... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An old man’s thought of school Whitman. X-men. Youth. Zymurgy.

  

  everything in this article is totally true, like when he was talking about ... is performed by MITSO, and obtain an Erdos number of 2, all of this in ... Wars movies they were going to watch on a given night. Which, I mean, is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Consider a Gap Year Deferring enrollment is an option you may want to consider.

  

  deferring entry to MIT, also known as taking a gap year. My hope is that you ... to do intensive music study. What you do is up to you. A couple months ... ... well, whatever the reason, college is a way to leave home that’s

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  is hard enough), a fuel cell that could theoretically be used to power ... nobody. Instead we're using 22 M formic acid, which is, needless to say ... like that. Anyway, the formic acid is pressurized, so it goes through a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  is to say, my high school journal) wherever possible. This might be somewhat challenging, considering how much of my high school journal is ... polymath is that everyone feels they have the right to a slice of my time. I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  that I did. In an obvious sense, money is good, and I've always felt that ... hours a day is almost certainly not going to overcommit you to anything ... , which is $8.75 an hour, and I was responsible for checking out books and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Application advice Read this. Now. It's important. Promise.

  

  [Productivity! This is my second entry of the day. Be sure to check ... , which is actually part of the School of Architecture and Planning and not ... South Street Diner, which, according to both Ruth and the How to GAMIT is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  , week, month, whatever, is over. I have a strange feeling my entire four ... going back to school after a long absence. It is hard -- not the level of ... students who aren't yet freshmen. A pretty logical moniker: "frosh" is short

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  when the population is spiraling (I guess a more mathematically accurate gerund is "being exponentiated") out of control. I was hoping for a ... must take care...of our own world. There is no planet we can move to. All

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  getting good grades, and one of them is knowing how to cook amazingly simple ... applying to a college outside of Costa Rica, since our education system is ... tourists, and therefore, studying this career in my homeland is like making a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  not a single game is downloaded on my phone or computer.   I’m 24 and sitting down and playing games is something I look forward to ... roller on my IT band, psoas muscle, and back is now part of my nightly

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  grandfather clock is going to keep ticking in non-Newtonian time, and the simple harmonic oscillations of the pendulum is going to keep whacking the sides of ... being unable to do it is like watching the battery drain from all my

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  , which is how you know I’m well and truly exhausted. Normally, playing and/or watching people play Minecraft is a hyperfixation that can consume my attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars upstairs. In some ways this is exactly what I predicted a startup would be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  ton of Team Fortress 2. As much I hate talking like this is absolute ... 's just something about it. this is how i got interested in biomedical ... , if you haven't read my bio) is an agricultural state. I knew a good

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  'll get sucked into the ridiculous whirlwind that is this school. I'll get ... public transport; but even for me, going out to Boston from campus is an entire occasion, even if it is just a five minute bike ride away. This is

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021