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• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  to do is go here and click on the "Vote" icon in the top left ... receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day ... deadline for voting in the first round is December 31st. I'd greatly

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  World Cup Challenge A little admissions fun during the World Cup.

  

  students, World Cup fever is in full force. I got to watch the opening match ... many countries around the world come to MIT. Here's the challenge: In ... only three countries in the World Cup had zero applications submitted to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  picked this class on the basis of "I have no idea what this is going to ... enrolled in the course, I ended up liking CV so much that I'm considering it ... .1200[/annotation] was fun! But I digress. This is the first upcoming semester that I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  summer, you get to rank the dorms in order of preference, based on ... they're meant to be doing. There are certain mistakes in the approach to ... illustrate points. The use of a living group's name is not meant to imply

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The seniors are tired but the frosh are fine

  

  , which I honestly don't have the bandwidth to think about, and REX is going ... everyone is tired, and then most people are moving in on Saturday, maybe ... I don't even want to talk about in public, despite the fact that I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Only Answer I Have "Just a couple of sentences."

  

  the last thread, as of this writing. Thanks to everyone who understood ... the same answer, because it's the only answer I have to offer. And here it is... What you must understand is that the selection committee

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  . The other third of you are actually going to live in Boston! When other ... ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to ... , we had to sneak out for two hours in the middle of the party. We

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A love letter to psets Masochists In Training

  

  force me to have a much deeper understanding of the material. Yes, you ... jealous when it's 2 in the morning and my pset is due the next day, but ... [context for the non-MIT folks out there: a pset, or problem set, is

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  specifically to notify students of events that have free food. :)" This is most ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... 'm pretty sure all sports follow pretty much the same schedule. According to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... hair is definitely not used to the bay area climate. We left dry, mid-90s ... in my classes for the GEL Program! [Intermission is over; please

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  cool! Then you got to see us again the following night in the Student ... st is the deadline for freshmen to declare a major. Technically, it ... .812) and two electives. In the first four years the minor is offered, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  situtation is pretty unique; since I live very close to the NIH, working here ... stay in Boston over the summer: -The UROP summer 2006 stipend is $4 ... ,700-$2,100 for a single. -Boston is reallllly nice in the summer! The winter

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  In Defense of Peer Pressure or, why my hair is now purple

  

  , come to think of it, I can swim across the Charles... My point is: peer ... abstract. Let me get to the point. My hair is purple. Let's be frank ... 's fair to call it peer pressure. People get interested in the same things

  • by Kate R. '14
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  plan to visit, please leave your questions in the comments; I will answer ... to leave your advice on visiting MIT and Boston in the comments; I will pass that advice on in the posts to come. A visit to Boston to visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the observations is to test if the Wallace Observatory has all the necessary ... eclipse is observed by a big drop in intensity in the light curve readings

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... the professors who cared about you enough to tell you they believe in ... ’re in for some of the most memorable four years of your life. But don’t be

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  that majoring in the humanities is a dead end (when it very much is not ... and do good things. And in some ways, this is my goal. I want to be ... 've recently come to learn that this is known as front-end development). In all

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  sports, the most in Division III, and football is certainly not the big dog ... cheers is a number. The members shout out the digits of pi. As in the ratio ... at 3.14. This is MIT, after all. They go the distance, as in 3

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Done (this summer) or Why I Haven't Blogged in a Month

  

  -long wait until the next one. The Medical Center is similar to MIT: its ... biggest difference between the two: the VA is a place with mostly older men ... prepare for—I’ve talked to alums who have been in the bubble for 30 years

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 4, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is ... in the moment. It's also nice being able to think "I would like to do ... prevent oneself from doing something—like, you wanting to do it is all the

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • January 6, 2024