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• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  takes on average 20 seconds to wriggle the drawer back into its proper place on the hierarchy of desk assembly, and it took me at least 45 ... and a few grapes (to be linguistically fair, you know?), sailed on the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello deferred applicants, i, again, don’t know what to say, but i can try

  

  was deferred myself, i was eventually accepted to mit. such is the ... would be prepared to open my decision and see the deferral and it would be ... . to be honest, at the time, i thought my mit application was pretty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  , I decided to write this one based on the song "MTA", where a man named Charlie gets stuck on the MTA (now MBTA) because he can't afford to pay the ... . On the other hand, I had been working on the second story for a while

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  metabolism. I’m on a mission to figure out what the heck is going on here, and ... might tell me I’m on the right track. Clish and other researchers have ... interested to read about the way that exercise changes our metabolic makeup. As

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist FAQ Some answers for students offered a place on the waitlist.

  

  those students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me ... know how many students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to ... your school to check on your academic progress. What are the realities

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  , "preview concert" on July 3rd. This was the second year I decided to attend ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the ... nationwide. The concert occurs at Boston's Hatch Shell, a concert venue on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  make sure we were okay. We were stunned on two levels, first by the news, and second by the distance. We worked ourselves into a frenzy trying to ... you hold on to the light, to the dreams you’re proud to have, and the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  ticked on, the sun continued to rise, and eventually we hauled on our packs and hiked back to the parking lot. On the way back to Charlottesville ... 't about to settle for an official camping site. We parked outside the first

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Dive: a cultural app take a look at my team's microsoft project!

  

  reaching out to me, asking if I thought the meetings went on too long. I, of ... so well. By the end of the program, our individual team would have to ... , the crew added us to a huge GitHub repo filled with resources

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time in a bottle. A Newbery-medal-winning collection of short stories.

  

  coming to MIT for a day and wanted to see how our research on the thermal ... If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do ... retrospective entries for you when I'm not so busy... like on the weekends. Think

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  ' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the ... on those later. At the end of the summer, I returned to MIT for pre

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  Stu, and on many other people in our office too. The book has been out ... it's up, I wanted to direct people to it. The foreword sums it up well: College Admissions and the Public Interest continues to help admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  experience. Revitalized by all of these things, I decided to take on the ... March, I made it to the second round of the intro CS internship mentioned ... I wanted to write a comprehensive post on my experience with being a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  Admissions: In a kind of virtuous circle, the "second tier" schools got better ... class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  hike the desert pretend i am a lifestyle blogger

  

  warnings. Eventually I reached the top, or near enough to it; climbing the ... on for miles with no interruptions. The path is secluded from the road ... [annotation note="one of the biggest changes in coming to Boston is how distant

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  into Becky '12, another freshman on the floor. "Hey Becky, want to go ... the dorm we really had no idea what to do with it so we just set it on a ... walks up, on her way back to the dorm from somewhere. She looks at us

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  moments of panic, I had the sense to reach in and rip it out with one clean ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke my world record low test score with a 40% on the third 6.002 exam

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on ... my internship to end on August 27th, which would be the day before REX ... generally try to keep on top of things at start of the semester, it is a bad

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  Observatory to give talks, mine on pulsars and Raphael's on the exploration of ... longer living in Charlottesville. I said goodbye to the brick house on ... I'm sitting on my bed, back against the windowsill and sneakered feet

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  camera?) off to my boyfriend, climbed into the "cockpit", and oriented myself to the controls. First thing I noted was that it was different from the Cessnas I was used to. A stick instead of a yoke, and my steering

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011