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  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  touch with my EC and we agreed to meet at his office. He works out in one ... really like MIT's attitude towards interviews. I find it much easier to ... answering questions about what I do in my free time and why I wanted to go to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent ... talk. And I'm not the only one. This seems to be one of the key rules to ... during speed dating sessions and discovered a way to predict whether

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  my friends predicted I would ditch the whole idea by Denver and opt to ... this tragedy and restore order, I silently vow to collect thirteen ... ’re going to have a bad time.” I thank her for the advice and ask if she has

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  Mystery Hunt ended just over a week ago and I think it's safe to say ... , and monitor all the puzzles) and get to work on it. It was titled ... Big Bad Wolf, Remy, and El Kabong. We had to do some Google searches for

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  The Stars Look Very Different Today Planet Earth is blue, and there's nothing we can do

  

  described as "too goddamn independent" and my mother, much as I love her, was ... me in a rigorous academic environment and my need to be really, really ... , about a month after coming to MIT, my friend Hanna '10 and I started a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  much attention to these statistics. This June, I attended the National ... women similar to Mrs. Curry who had the drive and courage to enter certain ... conference because I wanted to step out of the MIT bubble and interact with

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  TOTALLY NORMAL and all, and I just didn't want to ruin that.) Snively loves ... 's office so I could rant to him about how much I hate the world, or maybe he ... get a chance to meet Ben and understand how completely ridiculous he

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ring Delivery Potato martinis at the courthouse

  

  I finished finals yesterday (Tuesday), so now I am pretty much done with the first half (2/4 years) of MIT. That is both an exhilirating and ... success, and over 700 members of our 1000-person class attended! Here are

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Behold, a day job! Still with ultra-short travel time!

  

  and playing around with bacteria. More than once a week, you could hear ... spent more time than necessary looking into the origins of their name and ... -British-girl-group kitschy image they're trying to pull off, which has nothing to do with

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  the elevator to crawl between the platform and the station. I consider ... clear enough my commute sucks ass and eats up so much of my day"]7am-7pm ... on a gravel footpath between the station and my office. I have to get

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Exponential Decay This entry probably isn't about what you think it is.

  

  translates to a lot of verbiage. And while there's nothing wrong with new posts, every now and then I get kind of nostalgic for old posts. Some things have ... lasts for a week. What happens after that? Well, once an entry leaves the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  reviewing Amazon products, but I only bow down to the Bezos occasionally, and ... my loan history and see every audiobook I’ve ever listened to, when I borrowed it, and how long I spent listening to it. And so… after forty

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  . There will be much more to say about the reading process as November ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... : ...and a similar scene from my office this time last year: Yes, still

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  2015 has had its ups and downs for pretty much everyone on planet earth. From little victories to large setbacks, everybody's gone through something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  SOFT HOUSE five college students doing burpees on gravel at 1 am vibes

  

  amounts dedicated to working and having fun, so we grind out psets on weekends and then party after. It's great to be surrounded by hardworking ... blasting music on weekends and we don't have to feel bad about doing the same

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 28, 2020
• 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 / Admissions

  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 / 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