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  International Selection Day 2

  

  stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... had a quick item about stress and the college admissions process... I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  meetings. It's a great way to start off the week. How are your Mondays? Mine ... ) I didn't know there was a seminar on masculinity. To be fair, by the ... Singapore, where 5am Eastern time is not an obscene hour to be checking the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  experience. My own description is a little shorter: The best six days of my ... our minds to. The week was led by head facilitators, Tracy Purinton (the ... Shape serenaded me with a rendition of "Just the Way You Are", followed by a brief

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  get to the parking garage, and my rental car agent greets me with a ... place: Austin, Texas. Texas is not what I had expected it to be. The ... state is politically diverse. To be fair, I lived in the notoriously

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  's a good question! The answer is that, for 6.004, you have to write your ... : "Did you have to do the lab by yourself? no lab groups? Speaking of which ... ?" One of the differences between my situation and your scenario is that in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Cambridge, Boston, and MIT in the Snow Santa and Poseidon in a winter wonderland.

  

  , whose paper art you saw on Sunday:     Kresge, by Erin M. ‘16: The east ... , from the ground up to the trees and around again. The next morning it was ... professions, in a way Santa and Poseidon both have a lot to do with to snow. I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Days My traditional end-of-summer recap post, in technicolor.

  

  . Pictured above is the route I took to work: the Harvard bridge, past building ... is actually run by a bunch of zombies. Since the original plan of ... building. Which is pretty much what I was hoping to get out of this UROP

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  -Fi comforting. I don't need to white knuckle my way through the slow, relaxed ride ... , and it is both an ode to the nostalgia of that first year of back and ... years gone by as quickly as the trees zoom past the train windows. I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Events

  21: The Movie Night From the Bay Area to Boston, Seattle to the Florida Keys, Houston to Chicago, the…

  

  Before we get to scenes from the MIT Class of 2012 Movie Night, I ... sponsorship. The fictional 2.09 is sponsored by the MIT alum-founded company i ... have enough real ones to make up for it. The Bay Area is pretty conducive

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... two reasons I wrote my last entry. The first is, to be quite truthful ... second reason, though, is personal. The summer program I went to changed my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  's update rate. I don't know if what I'm seeing in the Charles is also due to ... last on campus Thing, which is almost always late into the evening. I ... rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  Yesterday I was at the grocery store. I needed to get soymilk, because it is lent and I am fasting. I try to fast like my father does, the ... breakfast, while my brother and I groggily walked to the kitchen. I liked it

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  baseball team, which this summer is trying to earn a third trip to the state ... still able to achieve what he's capable of in the classroom." Fannin is a ... the athlete as "one willing to take on a challenge" and who is "not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  to get your own, you don't need much. Consider: Grimgrains, a blog ... edible, and probably nutritious, but that is the bar. Cooking to adjust to your taste is secondary and can come later. I know it is difficult to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  ashamed to say that I adore that place), and picked April up at the bus stop ... class. I got to introduce inductance and RL circuits. I love physics. The ... - just know that I disapprove!) Thursday night April and I went to the MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain ... . Sometimes, we would row long and slow all the way up to Watertown, and even if ... hope you all get vaccinated by the end of April. I hope the students who

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  you can run but you can't hide

  

  the pits of your stomach. And so you start to overcompensate for that ... year. i get to be whoeever i want to be. i realize i can't dwell on the ... I've been trying to write this blogpost for the past week, but every

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  , and now I'm counting on you to get this idea into the Top 10. Let's send ... that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  's as good a measure as any of geekiness, at least with respect to the ... Valley and the headquarters of such companies like Apple, Google, HP, and e ... STEM occupations - and if you think about it, Boston is right across the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  slowly made my way up north to Delhi, where I was supposed to meet the ... see the Taj Mahal (no trip to India is complete without it). Week Three ... and explored the city's markets. The next day, we made our way to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011