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  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... really fast in the most graceful manner possible. And yes, I did stumble

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... because there was only one temple in the area The answer (question) is at ... be invited to an in-person audition.  At the audition, you take a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  landed in the jail cell with Mercer to beat the you-know-what out of him is ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... . Are you required to take 2 or 4? Is the CI-M required (for, say

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college ... feeling to realize that you know things that most people don’t; on the flip ... that I think I want to work in—transportation planning. It is nice to

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  truck stop town. a city in the central valley that used to have a bean ... want to go to the east coast, where culture is!” and throws a fit when the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Julia’s Day Out Almost 10 things I've learned since living in Boston

  

  this is the best time to tell you about some of  the things I first ... just do not like (hint: deflategate) it is just much safer to lie. My ... . The “T” is the shorthand for the MBTA subway system in Boston. Since the

  • by Julia Potts
  • April 11, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  listen in on random seminars and take the longer route home. Most ... , where everything is saturated and the world feels surreal in a wonderful ... we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  difficult. Most students who applied to MIT this year were excellent matches for MIT, and most were extremely qualified. Our task is to choose from ... weeks to come. In the meantime, we'll provide open threads today for all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  positive and negative energy revisiting midnight gospel

  

  interviews. in the third episode, darryl, the interviewee, is an ex-convict who ... says things like: “The reason that meditation is so important in magic ... our energy is going to flow in, so when you're doing magic, you want to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  ’t feel rested at all, and I’m not ready to be trapped in the [annotation ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... on our project. The most important thing I love about my hosts and pod

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Black Panther 2 Plot (Totally Real) (Not Clickbait) (Please Click Anyway Though) Not a fanfiction about Black Panther (because I am not a fan)

  

  on the Harvard bridge. T’Challa won’t feature much in this film ... operations cause the king of the oceans to attack Wakanda in a desperate bid to ... first architecture college in the US? At MIT, she chooses to live in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  others. The interview is an opportunity for you to convey that, for us to get to know you more off-the-paper. This is not a business school ... MIT to the interview. I believe that we as ECs are often the most direct

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... Charles River is in front of me. There is a chip in the sidewalk. And ... friends, Netsanet (name changed) is an Ethiopian born in the United States

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Applicants: The College Essay part 3 of the Dear Applicants series

  

  use “I” too much? The essay is about you, but it’s also about the people ... 50” college essays. I did that too much. As if comparing my work to the ... had one paragraph dedicated to parks in the fall and one dedicated to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  self-assessment, re: playwriting notes on taking playwrights' workshop this semester

  

  training wheels of the class helped. I learned to think in terms of change ... meaning in the everyday arcs of human experience. But still, I struggled. I ... find ways to drive action, create drama, all in a theatrically compelling

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  the joys and frustrations of 6.009 this class will be the death of me, and i love it

  

  [/annotation]-- more content to come soon!! As background, 6.009 is "Fundamentals of Programming," the[annotation note="Why is it the second if the course name says fundamentals? Good question! ¯\\_(ツ)_/¯"]second[/annotation]class in the computer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  miserable and magical oh, to feel moved

  

  a big deal.    in fact, most of the point of life is that ... and decide, in the end, what happens, happens. yes, it is okay to plan ... truth is, happiness is perhaps the most welcoming feeling in the world. it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  get access to our own machine shop, laboratory, and lounge in the ... biggest building in the world by volume. It's perhaps difficult to visualize how big the 747 is until you realize that this was the plane selected to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  Yultide (credit to the bloggers for the awesome name). Today is Yultide Day ... in this case being the 1E cats" - credit for caption and images goes to ... courtyard is beautiful in the fall. Notice the Boston skyline peeking through

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  thoughts on math@MIT! math month post

  

  [annotation note="Misheel: it is important to contrast the need for dfs in ... upshot of this is that they end up being available mostly to the students ... other people in the department without too much background prior to coming

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • April 24, 2024