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• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicant wishing you all the best and greatest

  

  hard for eleven years, and even more so for the past three. I hope you ... school. And while the status has its perks, little time is left for you to ... seen stranger. Reconnect with old friends. Approach teachers for small

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 6, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT ... you appreciate it. True for food, true for MIT. Because as good as it was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  , which I haven't been able to do for a while. If there's one thing I ... . This weekend is particularly splendid for a couple of reasons. First of ... weeknight, which ended up being much better for my test than studying for it

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Sal Khan, Gabriel Abrantes, and the Man in the Shiny Red Satan Suit Yesterday was crazy, or: How to Quit your Job, Learn Everything, and Think about Art

  

  2:50 PM, Wednesday, May 8 I am in a café on Mass Ave, waiting for a ... suit and horns. He stands around for a few seconds, looking like he might ... up, smiles, and says "Satan! I've been waiting for you!" "I've been

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • May 10, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Two Valentine’s Day Serenades Happiness and hearts and the MIT Logarhythms and Muses in cell biology!

  

  At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for ... about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution to where ... seat for you right here.” Madeline sat down on his knee and they

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  is going by for me, I don’t know what would. Since then, I’ve been ... and criticize/ comment on them. We meet every Tuesday for three hours in the evening, and each week there is a different theme for our poetry

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and before that at ... . Originally I had planned to just take one class a semester for a really long

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Stepping Up MIT brings the best out of people (in between psets of course)

  

  If there's one thing MIT students aren't known for having, it's spare time. But if a challenge is laid down for the MIT community, odds are you ... &D challenge, a call for dormitories, independent living groups, and Greek

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  temporarily satiate your craving for reading about MIT while watching half of my ... for the Engineers Without Borders-MIT Chapter. Engineers Without Borders ... developing countries to improve their quality of life. One of our projects, for

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up what seems ridiculously early for MIT students to go and exercise for 2 ... of my life for as long as I can remember. My first team sport was pee

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Life, or Why I’m Afraid Of It 1) Isn't everyone?

  

  've been floating around this school for the last couple of months doing ... missing out, but I'm really not interesting enough for anyone to miss out on ... couldn't imagine living anywhere else.) This stretch of time is perfect for

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  much greater stamina for holding it than yours truly, so you'd think I ... around, and say hi to the Amish kids selling baskets on the lawn for me ... , save for the one Filipino guy working the grill. (He gave me a high five

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  until later (i.e. never). Ready, go. 1. I'm being published. For realz ... interesting to me. I mean, I want to spend my life designing corn shellers for ... entitled ECall-compliant early crash notification service for portable and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All About Toys And how they rule my life!

  

  headquarters. For those of you who don't know, Hasbro makes Mr. Potato Head ... ended up submitting a resume for a summer position. I got the job and ... prototypes for our very own line of toys, ElectroPlushies! We took our toys to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Moving Out oooh, I am, moving out, mmhmm..

  

  singles are not for the claustrophobic, the faint of heart, or in this ... out great for Marty's dad in Back to the Future, my main purpose behind ... of IAP, and the floor held re-rooming for her room specifically. And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 15, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  the two: fight (by studying hard for two weeks), then flight (home for the holidays!) Many students will come back to MIT around January 7 for ... worrying about problem sets. Well, that’s not 100% true, there are some for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  . ------------------------------------- The schedule looks fantastic - for the kids. There don't seem to be many activities for the parents other than a reception and some financial aid ... recommendations for parents: Thursday 9:00am-5:00pm Come meet yours truly at

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  close), I left for the first leg of my fall recruitment travel. As to not ... Philly on Tuesday for more school visits. Then Northern Jersey. School ... Chili's (love Chili's!) and then later, the meeting for Central Jersey

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... students. He spoke very openly about his passion for research, love for MIT, outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  who would be thinking of MIT, including the Davidson Fellows Award for ... database of resources for gifted students. The Institute offers many programs ... wonderful things for education in this country. While I was in Reno, I also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006