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  MIT Crew Florida Takeover My last trip to play with the dolphins

  

  For now, we are back in the boathouse at MIT, erging, lifting and ... So usually in the beginning of January, Boston is under a solid layer ... importantly, the chance to play with dolphins. For me, Florida was a bit of

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dora the Explorer My long-lost twin has suspiciously wrinkly forearms.

  

  Course 16: Aerospace Engineering in college. Her hobbies and interests ... , science, reading, and, yes, singing in the shower. Currently, she is trying ... , but she says it is not easy. Thanks for the great banner design, Zaira

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sue me, I’m a multicellular organism snob

  

  spot for primates), and lingered in the butterfly garden's 100-degree ... disadvantages, it's worked pretty well in the past week or so. Friday night, Adam ... , Adam and I headed to the Museum of Science -- MIT students get in free

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... determine the DNA sequence of thousands of tumor samples, looking for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  ' once in chat towards the end of CodeIt. It made me feel gross for giving ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I remembered. When the CodeIt application opened up in late August, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Integration no, not the math one

  

  is debatable) together bounded by immense love for learning. In recent ... , religions, backgrounds, you name it. It’s an exciting environment to be in, and sometimes in the middle of juggling classes, p-sets, terrifying

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • November 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  . Now for the good news: MIT has in place its own, pretty generous system ... runs the course and for the most part approximate a final exam in that class. If you take the ASE, the grade you get on the test stands in for a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  it in Chinese and writing English subtitles (I have a new respect for ... time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this video in Chinese so please forgive me for the countless mistakes I make… I still have so

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Burchard Scholars Program (old time stamp: 11-21-09) - this entry is five months late >___

  

  reasons in doing so. ----- For current students, I strongly encourage you ... QUOTE: (talking about her daughter when she lived in McCormick as a ... . When my daughter was living in McCormick, I asked her one day what she

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  The Mystery Of The Missing Application Tracking Portlet A quick clarification.

  

  up for some reason. I'll look into this when I'm back in the office ... I apologize for the confusion surrounding the removal of the Application Tracking portlet in MyMIT. The system is supposed to display a

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 3, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  student today in my subcommittee, and we had great group dynamics. For lunch ... paired on the same subcommittee today. In other news, while we were in ... major in Biological Engineering: The Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Inside/Outside words/pictures; I really don't know what to put here... haha

  

  Wow so …….... I’ve been MIA for a whiiile. In the past 2 months ... . Like I wrote in my bio, even though I'm probably going to be "Jenny" for ... Canada would be great for “getting in tune with nature and getting inspired

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 5, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Aftermath Literally.

  

  Multivariable final this morning; let us waddle in the Aftermath for a little bit ... drilled in working hard for “the one you want”. So whether you didn’t expect to get in and got in or had all the passion in the world for MIT and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  blog post ever! I hope you enjoy following my adventures in MIT Admissions. For an introduction on me, you can check out my introduction blurb ... , with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  at MIT. ----- Discovery. Discovery for me came in many forms - I ... . Discovery is seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time in my life. 82 ... hum of the air conditioner, the lazy sunlight streaming in through the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  First Post A little about myself.

  

  mechanical engineer. I went to work for General Motors in Detroit designing ... is an opportunity for you to talk about your involvement in the things ... (which should also be fun for you to do). In my next blog entry in a few

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Letters from the 2023 decisions threads

  

  Every year, for as long as the blogs have been around, we post open threads for applicants to celebrate or commiserate about this decisions. Since we've been doing this for so long, we sometimes now get comments

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 25, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion that people exist through time in the same way we do in space (for ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... imagine life in general, is really hard, y’know? For many reasons. But for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  for middle and high school. I have not been in a public school in almost ... for help much faster than I did in high school, but I wonder how much of ... to learn how to teach in a way that works for them, and that I don

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022