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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the bass and the correct preparation and downward resolution of the sevenths

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Bienvenidos a Miami Updates from South Florida.

  

  Hospital for the meeting, thanks to one of our Educational Counselors who ... expected, meaning a number of folks had to stand. To those of you who stood ... of two meetings the office held yesterday, the other being Stu

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of curiosity, I picked up a copy of this year's edition, and found that I have done a respectable 51 out of the 101 Things listed. Though I was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  So summer kind of comes to an end today. Orientation starts next week ... absolute blast this summer. So here goes my attempt at one of those guides ... off, I think one of the biggest reasons why I had such an awesome time

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment ... advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  XREG

  

  For those of you who commented in the last post or emailed me, thank ... of 175 juniors who are doing a college tour of New England. It was fun ... probably late October. Luckily, I've done so many of them, I can talk about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  Your Mystery Hunt puzzle of the day: Dead and Gone I finished up ... film, Monkey Dance, is a documentary about the lives of three Cambodian-American teenagers in Lowell, Massachusetts (about 30 miles north of Boston, it's home

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  was done, I decided I'd drive through Tacoma and get a sense of the town since, yes, we do get applicants from this neck of the woods, and I like to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Blog Projects

  ASK US (the MIT Bloggers) ANYTHING! YES

  

  In the spirit of [annotation note="This weekend, high schoolers who ... authentic(!) lectures."]Campus Preview Weekend,[/annotation] some of us ... person or group of people based on a specific topic. You can go down in the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 18, 2025
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Small-Town and Rural Students take on MIT and Boston By Vaneeza R. 25'

  

  -In program this fall, we’re reflecting on the incredible success of our inaugural event. Last fall, we welcomed our first group of high school juniors ... insights into the college application process—through the unique lens of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • March 20, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor ... series of dings whenever they open, but, like the distinct colors of their ... as can be, and as the farthest elevator from the entrance of Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process ... rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... presentation slides. I’m so proud of my teammates and grateful for their kindness

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  some core part of myself they could still easily reach out and touch, unaltered by three years of transcontinental distance. It was my first time really hanging out with them in about three years: my family moved out of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  Lab). It's about the size of four honeydew melons (or two watermelons ... – most of that did not come from inside the briefcase. But I indeed received all of this shiny new stuff in various classes today! ... okay, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  Content warning: brief mentions of anxiety, BPD, hospitalization Hi ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to ... spring here! Yet, despite all those years of dreaming and planning, none of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Uncanny Valley im gonna make you shit your pants

  

  feel a little creepy. On a graph of human likeness to attraction ... diseased and dead while others think it implies the existence of a predator ... best a collection of observations. [caption id="attachment_96309" align

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Misconceptions initial thoughts from a first-gen college student

  

  I first stepped onto MIT’s campus in the summer of my junior year, and it was my first impression of what college life could truly look like. I didn’t visit many colleges outside of my local area in high

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My ... tendency to just sort of... not follow the rules), and as a result I never actually picked it up. I didn’t even remember all of the names (much less the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  – I would’ve loved to have either of those things, but my semester just ... other thing.” Of course, this was not a real conversation with a person at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023