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Blog / Academics & Research
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Ten years ago when I was a high school senior, a long-haired friendly ... Talent Search public session and gave me an MIT frisbee. A year later, he offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.
Plano West Senior High seniors will have the chance to make a difference ... biology teacher Barbara Pittenger for inspiring him to pursue a major in ... is a school he had heard of before coming to this country," Mr. Taylor -
Blog / Residential Life
All the 2022 i3 videos megapost
like a glimpse into how MIT students describe their own communities to ... As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where -
Blog / Residential Life
All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute
As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the -
Blog / About Decisions
Distractions For you.
Court. It was due to this decision that I spent an hour and a half of this ... advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I failed to absorb in wintry days past. In celebration of this meteorological -
Blog / Admissions
Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.
procrastinating! A few answers to common questions: Please remember that if ... app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the -
Blog / Challenges
Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified
for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere to call home, a place that'd last, not like the city I'd move out of ... went to a retreat with some friends, and I didn't realize we were in -
Blog / Hacks
Hackapult Sieges The Dome
river to — past the giant catapult. Yes, there was a hack - a ... . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under the Great Dome, overlooking Killian Court. It's a beautiful view -
Blog / MIT Life
2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen
a cup of tea on his way to fight an invisible space bear the printer ... rights on eBay for $36 and used the money to build stadium seating in the lounge. The highest bidder named Destiny after his daughter. Destiny as a -
Blog / MIT Life
What it’s like being back
've had a lot to do and thus unsurprisingly, I've kept pretty busy. Yes ... to and from California twice more, and to Arkansas once. (Frequent flier miles would've been a good idea.) I spent the last week and a half -
Blog / Admissions
Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…
Part 1 in a timely manner (as close to November 1 as possible), materials ... -258-8304. Again, be patient, as faxed materials take a day or two to process. As you ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal -
Blog / Academics & Research
Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan
) that I was eager to learn Old English. In a nutshell, Prof. Bahr said "well, if you find a critical mass of 5+ who quasi-commit to take it, I ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to -
Blog / Academics & Research
happy palindrome week! conventions, patterns, palindromes
of a week-and-a-half of them, running from 9/10/19 to 9/19/19. While ... noting on a blog read by students aspiring to study at a school fascinated ... would be fair to call Nick a palindrome enthusiast; indeed, also a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.
in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... even more Q&A fun. And finally tonight, what better link to leave -
Blog / Admissions
40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…
suerte! :) ---- Some things I learned this semester: Here's a fun ... They Transformed New York. John Hopkins University Press, 1995. A 1907 ... sexual flirtation where the motion of a crowded rush hour express threw two -
Blog / Residential Life
All the 2020 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute
As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising first years typically consult MIT guide to residences while choosing where to live. This guide includes the Interactive Introduction to the -
Blog / Challenges
MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast
, we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A ... a brief break from committee to attend a live webcast and discussion ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we -
Blog / Events
Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014
help make it a better place. It's very, very hard to see the Class of ... but posted a bunch of photos to Facebook so go look at them there ... admit I'm a bit sentimental about this particular commencement. The Class -
Blog / Admissions
Tragedy for MIT and Boston Devastating news for our community.
It has been a tragic week here. On Monday, the Boston Marathon was ... , and another is reportedly on the run in Watertown, a city that borders ... , MIT has cancelled classes today, and is urging employees to stay home
