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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where did my Summer Go? Written 30,000 feet above the ground in a giant piece of metal

  

  the labs that I’ve spent so much time getting to know and enjoy. The ... that they chose me – the inexperienced and very young intern – to travel ... opportunity to go on that trip, and to help make connections and friendships

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 15, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  anyone directly saying that women were inferior to men and immediately got ... ? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point ... riders are there to learn and observe and basically be bossed around by the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  , and sometimes go to trivia together, and eat each other's nachos: my ... ") ensemble, and this January we had the amazing option to actually go to ... (sabar drummers), learning to dance the Senegalese way, and eating lots and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about ... and get you on the right track before classes start and things start to ... Turkish roots, where food is used to bring people together) and this class

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some Things I Wish I Knew Coming In in retrospect,

  

  [annotation note="and if you look to your left, you will see a biochemist attempting to understand language by lysing the words and fractionating the letters into roots and x-fixes"]ad and visum[/annotation](from videre, "to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy New Year! A look back at 2006 and ahead to 2007

  

  libraries to understand cancer and disease, studied addiction, made plans for ... Happy New Year! It’s hard to believe that it’s already 2007. 2006 was ... -high temperature, Wiis and PS3s, the World Cup, penguins and pandas, eight planets

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 2, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  by the time you notice it’s too late anime, bloons, and piano

  

  fixed number of lives (say, 200) and each bloon you’re not able to pop ... relative to my body, and, say, play the E5 key with my right index finger ... it means you can read sheet music and know where to put your hands

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT honors Officer Sean Collier (photoblog) photos from today's memorial service

  

  turned out by the thousands today for a memorial service to honor fallen ... respects: Vice President Joe Biden, MIT President Rafael Reif, and Sean ... memorial service found other ways to pay their respects: Rest in peace

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 24, 2013
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  , Anastassia, Natasha, and I met and we picked five of them to be new bloggers ... extraordinary and vibrant, and to make technological inroads that would change the ... and I have come to enjoy the curiosity and randomness that comes with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  , and I began to worry I’d be so exhausted from the semester that I wouldn ... trying to run after spending three and a half months in one room. Then ... something good to blog about. And there are good things. I just needed sleep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hurricane Katrina Trying to help, to the extent that we can.

  

  to work with you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. I ... disaster, and it's just too early to tell what the best course of action will ... hearts go out to those students and their families who have been affected

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  was old and cracked and had handprints suspiciously close to the ceiling ... ceaseless swimming and red fins would inspire my own energy and productivity ... most other rooms but also makes it much easier to socialize, since you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  you could teach people to swim if you wanted to. TSA Agent: Oh. Huh. and ... to stop please just let me know and i would be happy to do so. at any ... , to stay with Monica (my best-friend-since-middle-school) and her family

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hit in the Face: A Snively GuestBlog Snively's point of view. Only this time it's actually his point of view, and not…

  

  . Hello, my name is Snively, and I’m about to get hit in the face with a ... you’re reading now. I got to MIT on August 19th and have been living it ... end to all the free, and I think I’m approaching that end. Today there

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  Walsh--a nuclear expert who's traveled to both Iran and North Korea (fun ... preference and these rankings are used to compare each candidate head-to ... "I've always been a knowledge junkie; facts are my hit, and Wikipedia

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  -time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... many true obligations and Places You Need To Be At. Even when I was ... hour after a 1pm class? Great! Time was so much more nebulous, and I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 3

  

  . AES wrote, "At my school, around 12 females were admitted to MIT and ... were very talented. These were the best students and we weren't about to ... , urban and rural. We'll try to admit a diverse class, and we'll always

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  to it. Just minutes ago, I logged on to mitadmissions, and there ... and hours to complete them? Ay, there's the rub - if you don't do the ... on the exams. And because the exams are worth so much, you should plan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008