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  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  Currently, I'm in the middle of a week-long Admissions trip to Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico to talk about MIT with students, parents, and other interesting folks. This trip follows another recent trip to Northern California

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Being a college student in a dorm means finally having to decide how and what you want to eat for the next 4+ years. For some, it’s as simple as picking which dining hall you want to go to. For others, it’s a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  comfortable with, or one that you doubt will be of much relevance to you in your ... makes much more sense to pass out of bio and get a head start on ... -long class by taking a test was too much of a gift to pass up. After studying

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I ... -term thinker rolled into one. Thanks to a Concerned Proactive Mentor, I had a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  not hold together no matter how much we tried to reason with them. Our ... semester, we don't have time to make any recipes we watch, so when we watch a video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  missing an evaluation, the teacher may fax a copy to us. If they need ... have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Running away with the field Junot Diaz is sort of a big deal.

  

  ways it’s even better than Drown." Yay. Then, much to my surprise, Junot ... (I've come out of blogger hibernation to post something too awesome not to share, and hope you all don't mind. Welcome to the new bloggers

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 10, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 2 just another excuse for me to talk about how much i love music tracking software

  

  to an end seems like a media consumption milestone. i also had so much ... wasn't really expecting much because i had never listened to the ... extensive, fangirly post about how much i love spotify and its playlist making

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 26, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my last first day every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end

  

  into and out of East Campus for the last time. I still need to take ... [annotation note="The day before classes start, everyone meets with their advisor to ... classes you want to take. You discuss which ones and why with your advisor

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  physics psets which I'm just a little psyched about. So to share my ... Special Relativity with a brief intro to General Relativity is 1) a physics ... case you want to pop by with a muffin and say hi. Don't forget the muffin

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... things to come from this group in terms of information is the international financial aid list [XLS] [PDF]. OACAC's Doug Thompson works hard to regularly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  Huey Lewis & The News") that I needed to have on the spur of the ... . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... 's recent post, I decided to set my iTunes on random and see what happened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  their own individual culture that you need to experience for yourself, so ... really cool place to work. But, back to what you came here for - it's my ... seriously. I cannot stress this enough. Try to pick a place that fits you in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  stars admiring from afar (to properly credit "we fell in love in october ... ’ve never felt so much joy from a season, a mere period of time defined by ... club event has been offering free cider donuts to lure in a special breed

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mustaches in the airport, Daleks in the library, and Food in many stomachs French House winter traditions

  

  goes to Xiaoyue Xie '15) Because many MIT undergrads live in the same ... , you're wondering WHO COULD POSSIBLY EAT THAT MUCH FOOD??? The answer is ... like 7 or 8 alums. In the weeks leading up to Dîner de Noël, we have a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  designed to encompass all the fundamentals of engineering while exploring ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... entire thermodynamics lecture to just talking about how cool airplanes are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.

  

  lakes in Rhode Island to begin with…!), played games, ate smores, and much ... drafts, second drafts, third drafts, galore!), trying to finish up my ... papers (coming soon to an MIT journal near you), working at Camp Kesem (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  at first to step on plants so much, until I realized they would be okay ... raining and was too much work to pull out a water bottle. [caption id ... when others are in the room. She has finally gone to sleep, and I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  this much freedom because I’ve wanted to go [annotation note="more on ... note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022