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  BoA & Restricting

  

  to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 words is okay ... application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your essay. I have never ... with a Bachelor's and Master's degree from MIT in Urban Studies &

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  Have you ever wanted to see how accurate you can make a GPS? Have you ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 3 Showtime!

  

  finally complete! Djuena then taught us the lyrics to a song in the Ticuna ... sad), so a few MITWE members tried to get Ken Amis (our assistant ... for the first time in a week, I also thought about how lucky I was to be

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Jellyfishing and other ways to recruit people to your organizations

  

  . No matter how much of a challenge your target audience may be to reach ... afraid to not pursue things even in the face of your new friends telling ... . Feedback – It’s nice to get honest feedback from a peer about how

  • by Stanley G.
  • March 10, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  to determine if your kid is a good match for MIT. Your kid should be ... , what are you doing to help him/her figure that out? Here's a hint: if you're spending time obsessing that a lack of AP's is going to keep your kid out of

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... , the other team chooses a player to get up and convey as many phrases as ... to get somebody to guess "stick pickles into your nose and ears?" The

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  different environment. And then in the third phase we get to do whatever kind ... between Tybalt and Mercutio? If Romeo’s trying to get in the middle of them ... ’s nothing to get in the way of that relationship blossoming online, whereas

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2009!

  

  attention to them. Short entry today, since I must run to a College Fair ... Happy May 2nd! With the final responses in the mail by today, it will be a little while until all the dust settles and we can tell you more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few ... , your UROP. MIT tells you that you have a chance to show off these groups ... . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  : Is now a good time to talk? D: Ahhh, sure. Q: You’re down to 3 ... that the amount of financial aid is a consideration in your college ... wouldn’t be helping anyone out. Your goal is not to ATTEND a college, it is

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  unintentionally danced around in black ice before getting back to our dorm. (In ... "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in ... of the varsity women's crew team We challenged Debbie '06 to tie a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  appealing?   Step 1. Determine your eligibility Are you a full ... the help of a Harvard friend to look up course evaluations from previous ... to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  th century, so a number of motifs were developed to imply sexuality in ... in Boston. There tends to be a mentality on campus where you feel ... experience in class with people you’d never otherwise meet. Getting to see the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  legal in Florida to kill a Black child. For the silenced, the internet is ... right to vote because of prior criminal convictions and denied a voice in ... from california, recorded a video message to kick off the morning. she

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  Life has drastically changed in the past few months. You’re in a ... corner. You’re excited about getting to finally be your own person.You can’t wait to throw your cap up high at graduation. But you’re also a tad bit

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  spooky formatting ghosts. I recommend drafting your posts in a free plain ... , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... take a moment to answer some of the more frequent ones we’ve seen

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A day without rain + pictures of yosemite

  

  work. I moved to a shared house in Los Altos Hills (subletting for a ... . Therefore, I, the Sichuan native, belong to a species quite closely resembling ... 's strange to me to be considered an East-Coaster-- a city-dweller, an on

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  to relax in #1, it does help if you do a bit of pondering before your ... Maybe I need to get over myself - it's been six years since I was in ... Jones informing me that I was selected to be a blogger...BUT every once in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  my 18.03 pset. But I didn’t actually finish. I was going to do it in ... related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical ... and turned it in after class which ended at 12. Then Joy and I went to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  that I guess is on a lot of people's minds: Q. So how do you pee in space? A. Up in space we use a vacuum. I always tell kids it's not something you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009