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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In which I screwed up a lot So a bunch of my blog posts are dead.

  

  then you will be made of fail and then the little voice in your head that ... the meantime, take this picture of a drawing of a Slowpoke as a token of my affection. Edit: Fixed! Alex '12 is made of awesome. Also this

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  ago, I was counting down the hours to the release of the Regular Action ... the anxiety, but beneath that, there was a layer of community. It ... . It’s probably part of the application experience. When the countdown

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... mob at the last assembly of every year, so without warning, music would

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  time." Next week is Thanksgiving, which means that some of the dining ... in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... Nalgene!", and "So the conch goes, 'Oh s***. I'm out of oxygen, and I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  exciting. I toured the actual laboratory, how cool is that? I even got all of ... photo of me outside of 77 Mass Ave. (So this is where my application ... time to chat in the Office of Minority education, where I was able to get

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2016-17 Application Essay Questions For those of you rarin' to go.

  

  As the summer rolls on, we're starting to get a lot of questions from ... are required of you. Tell us about something you do simply for the ... the lives of others. MIT students work to improve their communities in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • July 26, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  , with the remaining 50 minutes reserved for questions, answers, and debate. This event is especially important in light of Benazir Bhutto ... Location: 4-270 There'll be four panelists, all of whom have a strong

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we're going to mail on Pi Day this year. This was indeed the case last year, but ... factors, one of which is how long selection takes. And as you know, we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT consider extracurriculars?

  realize that students in the U.S. have a huge array of extracurriculars to ... other countries may not have access to such a diverse range of options. Remember that your application is reviewed in context, and that we look to
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most popular events is the annual Charm School Business Etiquette Dinner. So ... only member of the media there.  Arriving a few minutes early, I spotted

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aquaporin adventures a livestream of my brain while working on my urop

  

  cells exchange their water in the matter of milliseconds. Proof?" The ... ,000 [aquaporins] per square micron.”  which is kind of vague (what do you mean, up ... ,000 number That’s half the terms I want. This is going well.   1:37 am

  • by Alice L. '24
  • February 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yet Another MIT 2010? Alex Doonesbury needs to choose a college.

  

  In the comic Doonesbury by Gary Trudeau, the character Alex Doonesbury is still deciding on colleges: RPI, Cornell, or MIT? Now, her college decision is up for a vote (aren't you glad all college decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  1 day in the life of an MIT student

  

  the kind of person she is. We discuss how our senior years are going. I ... The unabridged version of a semi-recent, semi-typical, but memorable ... conversation with Katie '17, but she is in my sorority as well as a member of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  of the votes from making it into the poll. The idea of outing the main ... on the updated version of his hack site, "only keep one instance of the ... handful of indy hackers made their run at the Straw Poll, the ballot box was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer ... , right in front of the departure gate boards. Maybe they were upset that ... best start for a "pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  one of my best moments.    The Simmons trampoline is a great ... ). My dad tells all of us to take a turn doing something cool for the ... Chair, a Frosh and Events chair, and even a slushy chair (the result of a

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.

  

  understand why I'm really excited for the next three years? Speaking of ... in the acknowledgments is 9.00 instructor John Gabrieli.) The book scratches the surface of some really interesting topics involving the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 8, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Picked My First Apple apples, part 1

  

  . Here is the moment that I achieved my dream of IRL own-picking: [caption ... experience is mostly with pumpkin patches, but I have also spent many hours of ... . [caption id="attachment_47737" align="aligncenter" width="768"] the houses of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of ... essays. This means to spend a lot of time thinking about why you do the ... like this is from experience or anything… 3. Show your colors in the

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012