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  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  ranked #37 in the world for its health system (according to the World ... Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC ... working in the Biosafety Level 4 facilities of the CDC, and I wasn’t about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  21 = Vegas + MIT kids. Me = born in Vegas (seriously) + going to MIT ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... caves in and joins the team, declaring that he would "quit after $300

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  -jokingly-triumphant way because I had been uninterested in the project for a while, but felt ... , it feels like second nature. "I'll count for you." I put the swab in ... depression. Eleven. Since October 2017 I have not lived in a single place for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the Last but at least, I'm trying not to

  

  year, I'm up 9 minutes too early. It's 9 minutes too early, because in 9 minutes, or so I've been told, the early action decisions for MIT are going ... : "why in the hell are admissions coming out at 9:14am on 12/14/19?", as if

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  today is my birthday & i still don’t know who to become

  

  like a moment in time, sips away like a bottle of wine. Here I am ... ’m hosting a party for Boston-area friends.  When I was younger, birthdays ... in diary pages and used calendars. Another year until I acquired the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 6, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at the Media Lab

  

  undergraduate admission in the past, who went on to pursue their ambitions elsewhere, and who write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for ... latest in this series, from Pat, who wrote me earlier this week: Hello

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 24, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  . Thank you for sharing your aspirations and inspirations with us in the ... concentrate conversation in the open threads for admitted, waitlisted, and not ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  During my college application season, the adults around me (in ... —I mean, these tips certainly make a lot of sense in hindsight, but they ... , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life slows down a bit – if you let it Fire and hacking has been replaced by housework and skydiving

  

  something fun for the 10-year blog birthday!" so, of course, I say yes.  It ... ranks in Waze), I'm doing pretty well! I summarized my life after school in my last blog post so I'll just do some quick updates this time

  • by Snively '11
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... -chairs for Camp Kesem MIT this year, we joined Ram '13 in repping our Camp ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Resolved: MIT Rocks Even the Senate thinks so

  

  day. The U.S. Senate congratulated MIT on its 150th anniversary in Senate Resolution 195. "Mr. BROWN of Massachusetts (for himself and Mr ... Technology (referred to in this preamble as ``MIT'') was founded by William

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 28, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Not a Real Entry I wrote it in the imaginary plane.

  

  edge of the top bunk and feeling mildly superhero-esque in a thrill ... and Counterpoint II) and signed up for an X-tra Special musicianship ... for 30 minutes and went to a lab meeting and started an e & m

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has ... was still not what they wanted, and left again for good. So there's something I want to convey to you. MIT is not for everyone!! It's not that

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  After the Storm Thoughts about decisions from someone who's been there.

  

  't qualified for MIT, or that your myriad achievements in high school weren ... For the past six months, I have been truly privileged to share my MIT ... prospective members of MIT's Class of 2012 - foremost in my mind. I hope I was

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  entry in the works, for those of you who are sick of hearing about it ... snowstorm tomorrow? You know what this means….Battle #3!". Dan and I are in ... grape throwing, running around the basements, playing in the secret ninja

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of ... as the "international symbol for Frank O. Gehry architecture." This is ... saw in the Princeton Review book that she bought that MIT has one of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  cruise ship companies have expressed interest in the project, and for good ... precise adjustments in flight dynamics to compensate for outside conditions ... and oceans as they stroll leisurely about the one-acre cabin or relax in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  For the past six years or so, I've been a desk calendar addict. You ... a time (I think my mom got me Word-A-Day for my senior year as well ... you alone. 3. Resist mentally. Picture yourself enveloped in a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006