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• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  be creative and write and aren’t alone in doing so. Project for ... There comes a time in everyone's MIT experience, from the application ... moment occurs as soon as you arrive on campus. Or in the middle of your

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Choosing between a career and motherhood A reflection on the ideas expressed in the 9/20/05 NY Times article, "Many Women at…

  

  respect and have a high regard for women who have made that decision. In ... mediocrity in both. In fact, 60% of interviewed students said that they planned ... well-rounded by participating in a variety of activities, from sport

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  GRE, Boston love, and loose ends from last time Wandering around Boston lost is one of my favorite things to do.

  

  completely owned the test, I am in an unaccountably giddy mood. The only good things about the GRE (in this order): you can take it any day of the week ... , so I will skip to after the test, when I had my score in hand and began

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  color of where you can never go. For the blue is not in the place those ... unpolluted by city lights. Hour 31 We stop in Ottumwa, IA for a while ... . I ask my seatmate, who’s been coding in Python for the last six hours

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ="At some point in my childhood my mom definitely made me read up on traditional holidays, but at some other point in my childhood, I started ... little Cantonese growing up, our ability to communicate in Chinese is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  for very long. I’d written the story in 2018. Some of the sentences ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left ear. I want to bask in this feeling, write it down so that I can read

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

  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  about to leave MIT in less than a month. I want to thank Connie for ... and will continue to be for a long time—I’m about to start an MD-PhD in ... and friend. When I came to MIT, I was looking for an education that

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  different “names” in our respective languages for our numbers…all around the ... are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any ... need numbers. For music. The number of beats in a song is regulated by

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  for everyone, and we pushed through to get all our dishes in downstairs ... functional and eating edible food"]GRAs [/annotation]in the Fall of each year ... -picking outings that MIT dorms help subsidise. For most people, it’s a great reason

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus Visits… Bring Em’ On! This entry will focus on the dos and don'ts of a fall visit to a…

  

  If I'm not mistaken this is the time of year when you begin in earnest to think about where to apply for college. For some of you it means ... gracious to send you. I know that most of you will put it all in a big box

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 5, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months ... A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... , for the longest time, I thought the idea of "building credit" was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  be a difficult time for you, but we ask that you converse in the ... “It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny ... students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  -is-becoming-pretty-standard hard And waking-up-in-time-for-your-9am-class-that-you-slept-through-consistently-for ... The last time that we blogged about our academics was in June. We had ... Lives, and eager to figure things out. For those that haven’t read it yet

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Accountability Some thoughts on decisions and school

  

  stop you dead in your tracks, blurring your vision for a while, until you ... wheel - feel in control and accountable for where you go. Even if you ... could not put my thoughts together while studio’ing it up for midterm

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Wrap-Up 2008

  

  that we do not have any more room in the class, and will not admit any ... really great students on the waitlist who we wished we had room for. We ... admissions for this year and let the remaining waitlist students focus on their

  • by Decisions
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Weather Machine We wish you were still here!

  

  , its timing was off by a week, but fortunately (for me, not for you ... weather machine. I might have still been asleep for that)(once I fell asleep ... Maguire). I've been so busy sitting out in the sun/getting my official EMT

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Happy Pi Day!!! 3.14159!

  

  advertising the event.   This Wednesday, 3/14 at 5pm in room 2-102, the UMA is celebrating our favorite constant in style with the following ... or not" contest There's also free pie for everyone! And, you can pick

  • by Bryan
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  BEST WEEK OF 2007 ...a self-rewarded happiness.

  

  't blogged in a while. Life, we'll say has been a little exciting lately, and by a little I mean a ton. I was invited to interview for my PhD at my ... than when I got into MIT for undergrad. I knew I was going to get into

  • by Bryan
  • January 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  July 4th Pictorial FIREWORKS!

  

  . Generic picture of the boats lined up on the Charles River for the fireworks. If you look close enough, you can see the barge responsible for all the excited electrons in the sky. I stopped by Ashdown (grad dorm) for free

  • by Bryan
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Commencement On Friday, the MIT Class of 2005 graduated! It was a beautiful day on Killian…

  

  Killian Court for the MIT Commencement ceremonies. For the curious, here ... don't begin until 10am. In the meantime, there's a "pre-game show." This ... Admissions Marilee Jones! Above, Marilee is preparing for an interview with a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 6, 2005