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  RA Selection Day 8 & Beyond

  

  text book I used for 1.00: Introduction to Computers and Engineering ... domestic applicants has ended. I spent much of the day discussing and ... On Selection Day 8 (Thursday), I wore a skinny tie, and worked with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , freezing to them, and then being subjected to 50+ MPH winds is the landlocked ... damage to the electrical and telecommunications infrastructure than any ... heat, light, or the ability to cook food, boil water, and generally care

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor ... Education: the idea behind this was (and still is) to completely transform an ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies ... some point, I felt a presence, and looked up to find Frank Wilczek ... composure, I pointed to the "Faculty Interests" bulletin, and said "I like

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  the summer to sit down and write them out. Two semesters in, and the ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is ... -EMS EMTs work. They tend to hire us, they pay, and most of all, they are an

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  possibly join and I expect my inbox to be flooded with information session ... happened to me in these two and a half weeks in just one measly blog post ... .09 Minds and Machines Some people compare the MIT experience to drinking out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday Roadtrip Out on the open road.

  

  the nice part was that it only had 1200 miles on it, and it still had the new car smell. My first leg of the trip brought me to Lawrence, MA ... Humanity. The two tasks for the day was to remove from siding from the

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   ... shape and make a good faith effort to inform us of your circumstances, we ... both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  guarded by a vigilant goalie with the power to apprehend nearby pucks and ... resistance from our opponents, my teammates and I won 1 to 0. Afterwards, I ... in this way for five nights, and then the final bracket was revealed to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)

  

  religion and wealth. Prof Gruber was my 14.41: Public Economics teacher this ... that its persons of the year are Bill and Melinda Gates and U2's Bono ... from Bono's visit to MIT to discuss poverty research. Here's Bono with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  application, and also send, via snail mail, the extra piece(s) to the Admissions Office. Be sure to include your name and date of birth. These can also come ... interview before I submit my Part I?" and "What happens if my teacher

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT & Boston colleges Some tips for checking out MIT and Boston this summer.

  

  than 50 colleges and universities in Greater Boston, making it easy to ... are on subway lines, so renting a car (and trying to navigate Boston ... 'd like to be at somewhat smaller information sessions and tours, Tuesdays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Process of Psetting And the technicals of technicals

  

  The imperative of an Admissions Blogger is to write about life and ... appropriate to blog about their culture. Q: What is a pset, and how to do you ... follow what appears to be a consensus of bloggers before me and adhere to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 23, 2015
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  to boston, and to cambridge, and to MIT. they have successfully ... . i turned 21. the semester finally ended, and people started to slowly ... spent with [annotation note="going to the city, and to round one, probably

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  . Many students will join Freshman Learning Communities to take much of the ... by recent graduates/interviewers Ed and Jen, both of whom are off to ... -trained architect and long-time interviewer in Manhattan. Larry also has ties to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  was able to write autobiographically in a completely different ways, and ... world]. Trips to Verdes and the Stud (perhaps too often). This year, MIT ... grab food around campus, and I spent way too much of that funding at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  beat the Yankees, my friends and I (and pretty much all of Boston) ran to ... statehouse, but it costs money, and Adam and I were determined to spend as ... in the church himself (he sent somebody else to do it), and that the it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Engineering Poetry we do that.

  

  to work hard and play hard, and helping out with Terrascope. And ... . (This is mainly due to how awesome and entertaining these poems are.) For ... haunt your mind, and you must be willing to set aside your assumptions

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  2016. Today Claire has achieved her dream and is goin to share this ... , which was me scrambling to finish my summer project and making slides it ... hour sprint on an international flight to finish as much as I could

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... tall and narrow, and she curled the ends of her letters so that each word

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013